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THE SALEMITE
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As a student in college you have many
opportunities. Will you take them?
You have the opportunity to learn from
others, whether they be students or faculty
members. In classes you can learn why Ger
many invaded. France, why atoms are the sub
stance of matter, why “Hamlet” is a great
play. You can learn mathematical formulas
and philosophical theories, verb endings and
recipes.
Outside of class you can talk informally
with your professors. You can profit by what
they say for they have had experience in this
business called life.
You have the opportunity to enjoy the cult
ural. There is either a civic music program
or a recital at least once every month.
Whether it be Wagner’s “Liebestod” or Gersh
win’s “Preludes,” there is beauty in it—beauty
for you, if you want it.
The lecture series provides us wdth renowned
speakers, who can tell of incident;s from life
or disciiss the atomic^ bomb. The art world
offers a variety of exhibits and discussions.
Chapel programs bring medical missionaries
and journalists and musicians, people we may
not have the opportunity to hear in future
years. You have the opportunity now.
As college students many of you are just
beginning your life away from your home.
You are learning a little about living inde
pendently, away from your family and high
school friends. You are learning to adapt
yourselves to new people, new places, new
circumstances, new rules. You have the op
portunity to mature.
As one of a group you have the opportunity
to co-operate and to participate. The extra
curricular activities offer a variety adaptable
to anyone’s interests. Do you play in the
athletic events, take a part in the panel dis
cussions, offer your help for a talent show?
You live in a selected group of people. Do
you seek their friendship or live within your
self? You have the chance each day to make
a new friend, or lend a sympathetic ear to
an old friend. You are given reason for prac
ticing your Christian ideas of faith and bro
therly love.
You have the time to talk to your friends,
whether it be for ten minutes after lunch or
three hours late at night. You can learn what
they believe and how they live. And most
important of all, you can find yourself when
you talk to others.
You will discover the inner “you” who is
sensitive to the beauty of a green willow tree,
a child’s laughter, a book of poetry. You will
discover that you have learned something
about living, be it patience or tolerance or
understanding. You will find the “you” whose
heart sympathizes with the crippled and the
forgotten and the war-weary soldier. And in
discovering these things, you will discover the
“why” of life.
You have the opportunities. Will you take
them?
I. C. M.
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By Maggi Blakeney
Peope are talking about
. . . suppressed and unsuppressed
desires. What is your suppressed
desire ? The Denver Post teasingly
asked this question of its readers
and received some very strange re
plies. There were two housewives
ivho yearned to appear with a sj^m-
phony orchestra. My roommate
had a similar desire the other day.
She wanted to stand up in the
middle of the performance of the
Winston-Salem Symphony and
shout “shut up!” Thank goodness
she still has a surpressed desire.
There is also the “kill joy’’ type
of surpressed desire: you want to
stand up at your best friend’s wed
ding and object to the marriage.
There is the romantic suppressed
desire; you want to date Philip
Mountbatten for a gala twirl
around Buckingham Palace. Maybe
you have a suppressed desire to be
a dancer, a ballerina like Maria
Tallchief or just a vagabond in the
May Dell.
. . . ballerinas these days too.
They are talking about George
Balanchine’s newest ballet, a full-
length re-creation of The Nut
cracker, The first act of the ballet
is an old-fashioned Christmas party,
decked out with a tall tree, stacks
of packages wrapped in red ribbon,
and twelve children, from Balan
chine’s School of American Ballet.
They tumble about the stage in
colorful costumes; then when the
last guest is gone, and Clara, the
daughter of the house, goes to
Globe Trotters
By Bobbi Kuss
The warm sun and cool ocean
breezes are sending out invitations
to many Americans ’bout this time
of year ... to “come Southward
to relax” in a portion of our globe
tagged Florida. Meanwhile, the
warmth, not of the sun, but of a
tense situation in Indo-China; and
the coolness, not of the ocean
breezes, but of the atmosphere
around a council table in Berlin are
sending out news invitations to the
whole world. Tourists may relax,
but the Vietnamese forces in Indo-
China and Dulles, Eden and Bidault
in Berlin cannot . . .
Accepting our news invitation to
the latter, cooler realm . . . the
Berlin conference, which , will prob
ably terminate this week . . . The
West has won a propaganda vic
tory. As yet there have been no
material accomplishments, but
neither has there been anything
lost.
Dulles spearheading the Western
powers has talked tough to Molotov
and has beat him at his own game.
Molotov staged no W'alkouts this
conference round . . . perhaps he
realized his opponent would not
retract his punches !
The blow by blow account of
the conference in U. S. News and
World Reports show it thusly:
Molotov proposed agenda for
Four Power conference . . . Dulles
accepted. Molotov proposed bring
ing Communist China into talks
wnth U. S„ Russia, Britain, and
France . . . Dulles rejected this,
defiouncjng. Red China as “this off-
sprin.g of Soviet Communism
this convicted aggressor.” Molotov
retreated, then offered a new sug
gestion ... a world disarmament
conference . . . Dulles tagged this
an empty Soviet proposal, made
m.any times before without success.
Molotov asked that the N.A.T.O.
and the European Army plan be
scraped . . . Dulles said both were
designed for defense, demanded to
know rvhether the Soviet Union
was planning an attack. Molotov,
denying aggressive intent, called
the_ Soviet Union a “peace-loving”
nation . . . Dulles reminded Molo
tov that he called Hitler’s Germany
“peace-loving” in 1939.
Molotov urged France and its
European allies to co-operate with
Soviet bloc . . . Dulles ashed
if Molotov wanted to drag .the free
nations’ living standards down to
Soviet level.
Molotov rejected the Western
proposal for free elections for
united Germany, but talked about
a democratic Germany” . . . Dulles
denounced what he called' Molo
tov’s “zig-zag tactics” and de
manded that he get down to busi
ness . . and still no peace treaties
for Austria and Germany.
This conference in general has
shown the U. S. to be taking the
offensive in the cold war rather
than Russia; has served to bind
the Western allies together; has
lost for Russia her propaganda
battle m the free, world and her
satellites; has shown in Dulles- a
brilliant man quite worthy of the
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(Editor’s note: This cartoon is a reprint of one used in the Salemite
several years ago.)
People Are Talking About...
sleep dreaming of Christmas, the
stars of the ballet take over. Maria
Tallchief dances the part of the
1 Sugar Plum Fairy and Nicholus
j Magallones is her Cavalier.
. . . the way Balanchine has
stuffed his show with property
magic. As Clara sits on stage
watching through dreamy eyes, the
family Christmas tree grows until
its top disappears into the flies.
Also the window of the room grows
wider and higher until the scene
passes through it, outdoors into a
snow-smothered pine forest. He
has a realistic blizzard of white
confetti blow on the “Snowflake
Waltz.”
People are saying it is the most
ambitious effort in the New York
City troupe’s history. If you are
in New York anytime soon, make
it a point to see The Nutcracker.
. . . the third chapter in Walt
Disney’s attempt to write a child’s
history of England on film. This
third chapter is “Rob Roy.” Unlike
most costume adventures which
Hollywood turns out, Disney has
cut down on cost to the sum of
$4,500,{XK). Disney manages this by
taking his small troup of tech
nicians and not very formal actors
to the same ground his story was
lived on—in this case the Scottish
Highland. In the Highland country
among the dingy granges and an
cient trods of the trossachs country
where “funny cattle stand and stare
in the emerald brears” as they have
for hundreds of years, he set up
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By Betty Lynn Wilson
Some you like and some you don’t.
For some you will aiid for some you won’t
They’re all well known one way or another-
See if you can tell one from some other.
He’s back with us after a year away.
In the libraries of England he had his hey-day
He added to Salem more notes of distinction
When he did his reseach in books of extinction
She’s cute, brownette and a comely lass,
And when it comes to sports she’s really hiffli
class.
One glance at her, she resembles a student
But to decide otherwise would be quite pm-
dent.
He leads your thoughts into far off worlds
And it’s known he is fond of his Salem girls.
The work he assigns is really a sight,
But his words are always worse than his bite.
His piercing blue eyes keep me on the ball,
And he puffs on his pipe up in Main Hall.
Many languages it’s widely known he can
speak,
But those lectures on love leave everyone
weak.
I suppose the “F.T.A.er’s” know her best.
And I hear the remark, “She’s never at rest!”
She sings, she directs, she works on plays
In the spare time that she calls her “free” days.
He’s “Salem’s Sweetheart”, and for good
reason,
He’s here to help us in every season.
We like his dignity and respect his manner,
For Salem’s standard he carries the banner.
She’s given a boost to aspiring -writers.
And foij- naturalness in style she is a fighter.
She is faculty advisor to your Salemite,
And for all literary folks she’s a guiding light.
He knows all about the lepidopterous,
And explains in one class about electrons.
His red shirt is a favorite with the girls.
And it’s known he gives the ladies a whirl!
This gent is tall and has wavy hair.
And lots of ladies want him to snair.
He drives a big ear of color green.
With top down, the likes of him you’ve never
seen.
Ihis young ladj^ isn’t in the others’ bracket;
Simply because she’s not in the same racket.
Her’s is the highest student position around,
And she’s one in which honor abounds.
This little miss is a sophomore to be,'
And she s the third of her clan at Salem C.
Her beauty is flawless, I’ve made up my mind!
For any young beau she’ll be a find.
There s a lady who is Salem’s protector.
And for a group of people, she’s director.
She sees that buildings are neat and clean,
So by Salem’s guests the best can be seen.
Now if you can guess these, you ain’t so smart!
Anybody could do it with half a start.
They re all folks on campus that you knoff
well..
So if you guessed any of them you ain’t so
swell. -- ' '