TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1974
THE DECREE
PAGE 7
ORPHEE
KARLA HAMPTON
NCW’s Miss
Three Wesleyan students
were selected for inclusion in
this year’s “Miss Rocky Mount
Pagent”. Karla Hampton is a
junior religion and philosophy
major who hopes to attend
graduate school at ECU in
vocational rehabilitation and
therapy. Karla, while here at
Wesleyan, has been a member
of Pi Epsilon Sorority and the
Decree Staff, and is currently
secretary of Circle-K. She is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
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inflationary price spiral.” Lea
ther, manufacturing, and mar
keting have increased 50 per
cent while labor costs have
gone up 30 per cent.
“The only thing about our
penny loafer that’s changed
since 1970 is the price,” said
Mr. Solz.
In recent years clogs and
platforms have outdistanced
loafers in the fashion footwear
race. But Mr. Solz predicts 1975
will see a return to the classic
favorite. (Demand for the tra
ditional Weejun loafer, he
JOAN LEWIS
Karlton Hampton of Poplar
Branch, NC.
Joan Lewis, a native of
Edenton, NC, is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. George W. Lewis
Sr. She is majoring in music
and plans a career in teaching.
Joan is a member of the
Chamber Singers, Wesleyan
Singers and the Varsity Bas
ketball and Softball teams. She
is a Sophomore.
Leila Riddle is a Freshman
reports, has already doubled in
the past year.)
That increase in popularity
may be due in part to a
resurgence of interest in the
1950’s, as also exemplified by
the return to bright knee socks,
baggy sweaters and kangaroo
sweat shirts. The revival of the
Saturday-night sock hop, the
hit movie American Graffiti,
and the long-running Broadway
musical Grease.
“I’d rather spend my money
for a comfortable classic shoe
than spend it on the osteopath
LEILA RIDDE
voice major who hopes to
become a professional singer.
Leila, while here at Wesleyan,
ahs been a member of the
Chamber Singers, the Wesle
yan Singers and plans to go out
for the Varisty Basketball. She
is the Daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Riddle of Pittsboro, NC.
Although none of these girls
placed in the final balloting
they each received a $100.00
scholarship.
after I break an ankle with
those clunky platform things.”
“It’ll really be fun getting
down to earth again—literally,”
said a former platform heel fan.
“Those four-inch shoes were a
pain to trudge around in and
they just don’t look right with
this season’s graceful clothes.”
Reprinted Courtesy of
SEVENTEEN
Copyright 1974
By Triangle Communicating
In.
All Rights Reserved.
By R. L. WATSON
A modernized version of
Jean Cocteau’s Orphee was
presnted by the Wesleyan
College Theatre October 30
through November 1. This
production was, quite simply,
the best I have seen at
Wesleyan. The acting was
uniformly good, the sets ima
ginative, the lighting superb,
and the audience responsive.
Director Van Blarcom and
designer Kagey, as well as the
entire production crew, are due
compliments.
And then there is the play. It
concerns Orpheus’ search for
“true poetry”, some ultimate
artistic expression of life’s
meaning. “Only real poetry,” he
tells us, “can save my soul from
death.” The search is real;
artists have resorted to suicide
when they think the goal has
eluded them. Van Gogh and
Sylvia Plath come to mind
immediately. But Cocteau does
not invest the search with such
cosmic importance.
Orpheus (Gray Basnight) is
introduced to us in his
apartment where he lives with
Eurydice his wife (Cathy
Chrismon). Eurydice’s desire is
for a happy home and stability,
but Orpheus’ frustrating search
for Truth makes this impos
sible. The current object of his
affection is not Eurydice, but an
alcoholic horse, which Orpheus
believes to be a potential font of
poetic truth. His frustration
increases as the horse’s only
poetic utterance is to perpe
tually tap out the word
“whiskey.”
Orpheus and Eurydice fight.
She accidentally ingests poison
meant for the horse and dies.
Throughout all this an amiable
simpleton, Breakwind (Doug
Elder), tries to maintain
friendship with both.
It is his search for Eurydice
in hell and the prospect of
Breakwind’s arrest for his own
murder that cause Orpheus to
change his view of the artists
goal. Once he asserts that “only
death can generate True Poe
try.” But Death (played by
Sandra Evans) spends her time
mindlessly watching television.
This scene is the masterstroke
of the production. Behind a
black curtain of gauze, Death
and her assistants sit, mun
ching popcorn mechanically,
transfixed by the tube. The
light shed by the infernal
machine is unearthly. Orpheus
is gradually captivated by the
TV’s charms, which at that time
involved the urging of the
viewer to become a “Pepsi
person.” What better portrayal
of hell than this?
It is also a devastating
put-down of Orpheus’ search.
The final result is that Orpheus
abandons the quest for some
ethereal True Poetry and as
serts, as he sits arm-in-arm
with Eurydice and the portly
Breakwind, that one finds
ultimate meaning through rela
tionships with real people.
Perhaps he realizes that, as he
was doting on the horse’s head,
he was in fact being the
opposite end of the horse’s
anatomy.
It is certainly permissible to
reduce the artist’s search for
Truth to a more mundane level
and to parody it so effectively.
Finney Returns
From Honduras!
NEWS BUREAU—Dr. Ken
neth V. Finney, assistant pro
fessor of history at N. C.
Wesleyan College, recently re
turned from a four-week re
search session at Tulane Uni
versity and Honduras, Central
America.
Why Does Everything Cost So Much?
Rocky Mount Candidates
j|j>OUBLE CROSS-UP
No.3
By Lora W. Asdorian
Consider the clues from all* angles; they
may CROSS you UPl The clue may be a pun on the
word wanted, or an anagram of the word itself.
Usually, the clue contains a definition (synonym)
as well as a cryptic representation of the word.
Certain words may stand for letters in an anagram,
e.g., NOTHING, TEA, SEE, WHY, YOU, and BE may rep
resent 0, T, C, Y, U, and B. The word could also
be hidden iji the letters of the clue, e.g., the
phrase “human being rated as unthankful" contains
the answer INGRATT! The word might be defined in
two parts, e.g., a clue for FORESTER is "ranger
in favor of organic compound" (FOR ESTER).
Write the words over the nuirbered dashes and
then transfer each letter to the correspondingly
numbered square in the diagram. Black squares
indicate word endings. The completed diagram
will contain a quotation reading from left to
right. The first letter of the answered words
will give you the author's name and title of the
work from which the quote comes.
101 H
102 J
103 0
110 S
11 K
116 S
117 J
112 N
113 B
114 T
119 A
115 M
120 H
121 H
122 T
123 S
124 D
125 K
27 G
129 0
130 F
132 F
138 H
39 M
134 L
135 K
140 J
141 E
136 N
142 M
143 R
144 L
145 K
146 T
147 G
146 H
150 E
151 E
152 U
59 I
153 R
155 A
160 U
56 J
157 H
162 T
163 D
164 R
166 0
169 F
170 P
171 C
172 N
174 S
175 D
176 G
177 A
182 T
183 C
179 L
184 G
185 R
186 M
189 F
©1973 by Lora W. Asdorian
CLUES
A. Big boat with fine for^
Is really neat*.
i. Day with sun called Pentecost
C. Main fraction of those
cofimlttlng a violation
D. Weatherman has soft career ...
E. Fed up after any Idea
that's considerate ...
F. On his joking I'm choking!
6. I pour a sour mash
for boisterous drinker ....
H. Work with a British Conservative
In a place for research
t. Regretted me dental bills
I. Net reaping famers planning to
fertilize
K. Stage show with nixed up
value about the devil ...
L. They called the re-entry off;
such 1iv)udence'.
WORDS
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M. Fake gem from German rock
^ 69 36 “T nr "M 139 186 TTF
N. Hank dashes forward to
offer greeting (2 wds.) T3f “5TT04 “8" T?T “87 TTT T7f “78 “5T
0. He'd see that straw roof
“55 2 T?5'”59 TSf “7T “47 Tof
r. Appraised trade
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Q. Superior shade of color
for a solvent 90T00B4“i5''TrT88“55'
R. Word often said with blinds,
glass, and red ToT TM “5f TTT TB?
S. Suits me fine; fate
made me womanly WT3"40“53TTFTTJ't(5r“15'T7TT?3
T. Why he clamors and is tearful
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U. Unwrinkles woolens so moths depart
160 31 t5?T8T"rT6 70
Solution to Double Cross-up
No. 3 in next Decree