APRIL 24, W75
THE TWIG
PAGE 3
Foreign observer blasts America
for lack of internationalism
Helene Bremond’s is a
familiar face on the Meredith
Campus. Here for a semester
as an assistant in the foreign
language department, Helene
speaks French to two classes
and does some individual
tutoring.
Helene who is from
Marseilles, France, had
previously met Dr. Katelin
Galligan, an instructor in the
Meredith foreign language
department. Her trip to
America and to Meredith was
arranged by Dr. Galligan.
Helene’s visit to the U.S.
is certainly not a financial
venture. But even though she
is not paid for her efforts, she
is able to live here and ex
perience the “American” way
of life, while taking a break
from her university studies.
Since she arrived in the
y.S. in January, Helene has
been able to m^e some keen
observations on America and
Americans. She notes many
differences in American and
French students, saying that
here at Meredith she has
noticed that students seem to
group together. More in
dependence is shown by her
classmates at home.
Although she is not ac
tually taking courses here,
Helene asserts that French
university examinations are
more difficult than American
ones, perhaps because they
are all standardized and are
administered by the govern
ment.
As a foreign observer,
Helene has also been able to
take a good look at our
governmental system. The
similarities between so called
“liberals” and “con
servatives” in America are
very evident to her. The
policies of both groups ac
cording to Helene are very
much the same and are not
nearly as extreme as their
French counterparts.
Much disagreement with
American foreign policies is
evident in her homeland
especially over the situation in
Vietnam. She explains that
perhaps this disagreement
stems from French in
volvement and withdrawal in
Indo-China. She also ex
presses her belief that
President Ford is not capable
of being a strong leader for
America.
Perhaps the most biting
remark from Helen concerns
the selfishness she sees in
Americans. There is no real
affinity between America and
the rest of the world, she
asserts, saying that we do not
possess an international
concern. She suggests that the
egotistical America she has
observed is perhaps in part
due to the fact that modern
Americans have never fought
a war on their own soil and
therefore are far removed
from the suffering and
poverty of much of the world.
Americans are always
smiling and appear to be quite
satisfied with their lives
Helene says, but she suspects
that such is not the case, that
all the smiles are only
superficial.
In general, Helene says
that she likes being in
America, but that she is not
overjoyed to be at Meredith.
In any case, Helene Bremond
has given us a chance to “see
ourselves as others see us.”
Debbie Doss
Helene Bremond
Movie Review
The Great Waldo Pepper
99
“The Great Waldo Pep
per”, another fading hero
flick for Robert Bedford,
turns out to be a satisfying
movie only for stunt plane
freaks and Redford lovers.
For the latter sector of
filmgoers, perhaps the best
moment of the film is when
Redford to his disappointed
girlfriend who would have
married him before the war
when he was cute says, “I’m
still awful cute.” Other scenes
show him as an ace barn
stormer and stunt flyer in
Nebraska in 1926 when flying
circuses are on the way out.
Redford as Waldo Pepper
boosts his popularity with a
highly romanticised but phony
tale about outwitting Ernst
Koestler, the Red Baron in a
dogfight during World War I.
When his rival. Axel OUson
confronts him with the lie,
saying it was another pilot
who outwitted Koestler,
Redford innocently says, “It
should have been me.” We see
later that this is the con
trolling ideal in Waldo Pep
per’s life.
Besides being a Redford
movie, “Pepper” is a tale
about American ingenuity and
competition. It shows an in
terest in technological ad
vances : Pepper’s buddy, Ezra
Stiles perfects the monoplane
Morals (Continued from Page 1)
He emphasized, though, that
“patterns of action should be
sufficiently flexible to take
care of extraordinary
situations.”
He continued explaining
that, since “in most instances
we do not violate our stan
dards because we think it is
the most loving thing to do but
because we have got ourselves
into a bad situation and are
looking for the easiest way
out”, rules can be used “to
prevent us from making
decisions on the basis of self
Piedmontls new
50/30 Excursion Plan.
Saves you money,
bu^ you time.
And taking advantage of it is simple. You can leave any time
on a Saturday. Then save up to 50% on the return portion of
your Piedmont ticket—just by coming back on a Saturday.
Sunday or up to noon on Monday, within 30 days of de
parture. That's Piedmont's 50/30 Excursion Plan. An easier
than ever way to take us up and save.
Piedmont also offers special Group 10 Fares and more-
for-your-money vacation package plans.
We've got a place for you, along with plenty of money
saving ways to get there. See your travel agent or call
Piedmont Airlines. Most major credit cards accepted.
interest rather than of love.”
In addition, rules “help
avoid the undue influence of
emotions” which, within
reason are “an important part
in the decision making
process.”
Rules, Crook said, are
advantageous also because
they are “an excellent way of
preserving the wisdom of
experience. They help us
incorporate in future actions
what we have learned from
our own mistakes and own
successes.”
Also, rules “protect the
rights of other people” by
helping us to “identify the
rights (rf other people.”
In defense of rules, he
concluded “some regularity in
our day-by-day conduct,
however, some pattern of
behavior, some norm by
which we can vary when love
so dictates, is essential. Rules
carefully arrived at by
deliberate consideration,
made our own by personal
acceptance and-or com
mitment, and used con
scientiously under the
discipline of the spirit of God
can be indicators of the way
love leads us to act.”
TWIG OFFICE
HOURS
MWF 9-10
TTh 8-9:30
Articles may be brought
to the TWIG office on the 2nd
floor of the Cate Center or
deposited in the TWIG’s
manila envelc^es posted on
the letter boxes in Hunter,
■loyner and Jones.
so that Pepper will be able to
do the “ultimate stunt”. The
movie also shows that the
drive to do this “ultimate
stunt” is a struggle to attract
an audience bored by stan
dard stunts. A last resort is -
you guessed it - sex. Alex
Gilson’s girlfriend riding on
the wings of a biplane with her
clothes whipped off gives
Redford (or more truthfully
his stuntman) a chance to
come to her rescue, but
ultimately this crass ex
ploitation ends in a tragic
death for the girl and
grounding for Redford.
The movie also makes
much of the individualistic
heroes flying in the face (pun
not intended) of bureaucracy
and regulations. Waldo
Pepper is unable to accept the
newly developing commercial
uses of airplanes, insisting
that he is a flyer, not a
chauffeur or a mailman.
Permanently grounded, he
makes for Hollywood to get a
job as a stuntman. He even
tually gets an offer to pilot a
World War I plane in a re
creation of the dogfight
against Koestler whi^ he
knew so well. It becomes a
compulsion for Pepper to fly
that part of the war which
should have been his and he
takes to the air again under an
assumed name.
The technical aspects of
the movie are fine. The
costumes by Edith Head are
colorfully, sometimes
shabbily rural. Redford is
appropriately and becomingly
filmed against backgrounds of
blue sky and green fields. The
stunt flying is at times
breathtaking.
“The Great Waldo Pep
per,” while not a great movie,
is great escape and en
tertainment. It is, at best, a
pleasant release into Red-
ford’s world of heroism.
Maggie Gdell
y^imillllllHIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIHIIIIIIHIHNHMIl
TWO GIJYS
AMERITALIAN RESTAIJRANT |
U om dfi€CiUilUtf
I Open 11-12 Monday-Saturday |
I 12-10 Sundoy |
I 2504 Hillsborough St. |
I 832-2324 |
All lienii !• go
a s
TmHHiiiimHimiiiiiHmHiHHiHHiimiiHiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiHiiimiiitliuniiiHmilunll
★ ★★★★★★•A
VILLAGE INN
PIZZA PARLOR
♦
■K
¥
¥
¥
t Spaghetti Special
¥
¥
¥
¥
¥
¥
¥
¥
¥
¥
¥
¥
¥
¥
¥
¥
¥
¥
¥
¥
★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
Coupon
Necessary,