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October 2, 1970 The N.C. Essay Page 5 :J. 6DGRR HOOUGR 4. They'll try to envelop you in a mood of negativism, pessimism, and alienation toward yourself, your school, your nation. This is one of the most insidious of the New Left poisons. SDS and its allies judge 'America exclusively from its flaws. They see nothing good, positive, and constructive. This leads to a philosophy of bitterness, defeatism, and rancor. I would like you to know your country more intimately. I would want you to look for the deeper unifying forces in America, the moods of national character, determination, and sacrifice which are working to correct these flaws. The real strength of our nation is the power of moral ity, decency, and conscience which rights the wrong, corrects the error, and works for equal opportunity under the law. Po\\oe^nen Are Friends 5. They'll encourage you to disrespect the law and hate the law enforcement officer. Most college students have good friends who are police officers. You know that when the extremists call the police "pigs" they are wrong. The officer protects your rights, lives, and property. He is your friend and he needs your sup port. 5. They'll tell you that any act ion is "honorable" and right it is "sincere" or idealistic in motivation. Here is one of the most seductive of the New Left appeals - that if an arsonist's or anarchist's heart is in the right place, if he feels he is doing something "for humanity" or a "higher cause," then his act, even if illegal, is justifiable. Remember that acts have consequences. The alleged sincerity of the per petrator does not absolve him from responsibility. His acts may affect the rights, lives, and property of others. Just being a student or being on campus does not automatically confer immunity or grant license to violate the law. Just because you don't like a law doesn't mean you can violate it with impunity. COMtNG GtT VDllR %-n 0)T 7. They'll ask you to believe that you, as a student and citizen, are powerless by democratic means to effect change in our society. Remember the books on American his tory you have read. They tell the story of the creative self-renewal of this nation through change. Public opinion time after time has brought new policies, goals, and methods. The individual is not helpless or caught in a "bureaucracy" as these extremists claim. 8. They'll encourage you to hurl bricks and stones instead of logical argument at those who dis agree with your views. I remember an old saying; "He who strikes the first blow has run out of ideas." Violence is as ancient as the cave man; as up-to-date as the Weather man. Death and injury, •fear, dis trust, animosity, polarization, counter-violence - these arise from violence. The very use of violence shows the paucity of rational thought in the SDS, its inability to cope with any intelliegent critique of our society. I- \ I ULM5 MWAKE This year Wake Forrest University is showing films by well known direct ors and producers, featuring top- name stars. NCSA students are allowed to attend the film series. I.D. cards will be checked only in case of overcrowedness, therefore, Wake Forrest students have priority. Most of the films are free, others are priced from $.50 to $1.00. William Sugg, of NCSA's English department, is organizing a complete listing of Wake Forrest, NCSA, in- town, out-of-town, and commercial films showing in this area. The list will be displayed on a marquee at a as-yet-undetermined place on our campus. This week and every week to follow, the N. C. Essay will publish a list for your convenience. This week's schedule is as follows: Wake Forrest (films shown in Tribble Hall): "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969-U.S.), Friday, October 2, at 3, 7, and 9 p.m.; Saturday, Oct. 3, at 2 and 7:30 p.m. "International House," with W.C. Fields (1933-U.S.), Sun., Oct. 4, at 8:30 p.m. "The Scarlet Letter," with Lillian Gish, (1925-U.S.) "Shoot The Piano Player," directed by Francois Truffaut, Thurs., Oct. 8, at 8 p.m. NCSA: "The Prisoner," with Alec Guiness, Sunday, Oct. 4, at 8:30 p.m. (shown in cafeteria) Guilford College: "Born Free," Thurs., Oct. 6. 8 p.m. (con^. -Trom treat them with unpleasant zest. Some of the deri+ai action in his latest novel. Local Anasthetic , is, for those repulsed by trips to the dentist, almost excruciating. His prose is almost pedestrian, though some of this is perhaps the result of translation and the re placement of German colloquail to American colloquail. Primarily a political writer. Grass exudes the world of modern German decadence. There are those youth groups, pre-forms of Hitler's ranks, and schools and gymnasiums. In The Tin Drum, there is an excell ent chapter concerning the child's first day at school; highlighted by the sludge in the waterfountain and the gym and the kindergarten teacher. Grass has a strange sensitivity for these things which helps bring out our own forgotten images. It is only when he uses perversity for its own sake that he runs off the path. Local Anesthetic is for the most part a confusing mess. The narrative line is almost nil and its singular spark of quality comes in a final scene when the narrator murders his fiancee with a swimming pool wave-generating machine. This book concludes with the statement: "There will always be pain." Having pursued a more than generous part of his works (.which I understand are not as popular in Germany as they are here), I can predict that his future novels will support this sad conclusion. For Gunter Grass, it seems, Life is nothing more than a grotesque gallery of misshapen beings and their per verse actions. SniTHWlljJSPRffiSH Nicholas Smith, 16 year old NCSA student and piano major, re ceived eloquent praise from the Chattanooga Times, in a review of a concert he gave at the Jewish Community Center in Chattanooga. The reviewer, Robert Cooper, said that Smith is "without a doubt, a pianistic genius." The concert program included Beethoven's Sonata Opus 53 (the Waldstein"); Liszt's Mephisto Waltz, and Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit. Cooper said of Smith that "It would not be an exaggeration to say that there is almost no concert pianist, performing in America to day, at whatever age, who has a tech nical command of the instrument that is better than his." "The truely amazing factor in all this, however," he continued, "is the superior musical taste evident in one so young." A native of Chicago, Smith studies here with Clifton Matthews.
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