May 10, 1965
High Life
Page Three
Staff Member Interviews Hermits
By Mary Anne Mitchell
“The thrUl of a lifetime! Imagine me, interviewing Herman’s Hermits!” This was my reaction
when WCOG called Mrs. WoodUef asking her to send a representative of HIGH LIFE to the
teen-age press conference held April 20th at the Coliseum.
Ann Mcswain, business mana-
Book Review
Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons
ger, and I left at 2:30 Tuesday
“scared to death”. All we had
been told was to be at the Coli
seum at 3:00. On the way over
we were listening to WCOG and
were briefed a little more. We
were to be allowed three ques
tions each. That was no problem.
The problem was deciding which
three questions to ask.
We arrived at the Coliseum
and Tim Parker took our creden
tials and told us that we'd find
the “Hermits” in dressing room
No. 3. As I walked in, the first
thing I saw was the “Hermits”.
There they sat, the five of them,
around a table, laughing and
talking informally. Most of them
were dressed in either blue or
green suede jackets. But Her-
Bell and Grimes
Merit Scholars
Ken Bell and David Grimes
were picked as National Merit
Scholars in the 1965 competition.
Ken, who is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert H. Bell 207
Mistletoe Drive, was awarded a
Sears Foundation Merit Scholar
ship.
David, son of Mr. and Mrs. E.
O. Grimes, 2105 Mimosa Drive,
won a national merit scholarship
and plans to enter pre-medicine
at Harvard College.
Other Greensboro winners were;
Sandra D. Edwards, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Edwards,
703 Abington Drive, student at
Page High School, received a
Container Corporation of America
Scholarship.
David C. Garvin of 2206 Mars-
ton Road, student at Page High
School, received an honorary mer
it scholarship.
Randy Joyce, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Roy N. Joyce, 1001 Cleburne
Street, Page High School, was
awarded a Sears Foundation Na
tional Merit Scholarship.
Allan Troxler, son of Dr. and
Mrs. E. R. Taylor, 2314 Princess
Ann Street, Page High School,
won a national merit scholarship
and will attend Swarthmore Col
lege.
Also there were three winners
from Burlington and one each
from High Point and McLeans-
ville.
Sincerity
BY LINDSAY JONES
Sincerity
A worthless cliche
Overused and trite
Only for day,
A word without meaning
Spoke but not seeing
All is blurred
Sincerity
Fragil and rate
Used by innocense
Stupidy dares
People be
Believing cry
Some die
Only denied
Sincerity
Is a fable
Used without meaning
for those who are able
It is a sea
That has no swimmer
It is a contest
Without a winner.
PARKING TICKET
That's Honda. Just the ticket for parking on
crowded campus lots and, in fact, anywhere
at all. Ride your Honda right up to class, if you
like, if the teacher gives you a funny look. It's
probably because he'd like to have one, too.
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man had on a decidedly English
coat. It’s rather hard to describe.
It was grey with white pinstripes
and a hip belt. To me Herman
looked like a small boy dressed
in his father’s clothes. He just
recently turned seventeen, but
is no taller than 5’5”. To his left
sat Derek. The other “Hermits”
are Keith, Barry, and Karl, all
ranging in ages between 16 and
17.
The usual questions and also
unusual questions were asked.
They are all from London. Keith
and Herman met at music schoo
which they both attended for five
years. They met the others when
they were playing with another
group.
They all agreed that they like
American girls better than Eng
lish girls. In their opinion they
are “friendlier.” In looks they
feel that there is no difference.
To me the “Hermits” seemed
no different than American boys
do. They laughed and talked just
as American boys do. Proving this
fact is the answer they gave to
the question “What do you think
of girls with big feet?” Without
a pause between speakers Her
man says “Hard to dance with”
and Derek says “But great foot
ball players!”
Our Southern accents and slang
baffled them little, which is un
usual for someone who speaks
such perfect English.
“Silhouettes” was agreed upon
as their favorite song. Their fav
orite American singer is Sam
Cooke.
I wouldn’t have believed the
friendliness of these boys if I
hadn’t seen it for myself. My per
sonal opinion is that Herman’s
Hermits are a wonderful group,
not only as performers but as
people.
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BY JANE TUEPIN
Few novels have such a pro
found influence on Russian his
tory as Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers
and Sons. The intellectual move
ment which Turgenev chronical-
ed, and the creation of his nihi
list character gave the first im
petus to what later culminated
in the Russian revolution.
Turgenev is one of the first
great Russian writers to be wide
ly /translated and admired in
Europe. He was known for his
realism, yet was at heart a ro
mantic idealist. He was attacked
as artificial and effected by
Dorstoyevsky and Tolstoy.
On the surface, Fathers and
Sons is the simple story of two
college youths on summer vaca
tion, but it is actually a dramati
zation of the major issues of
Turgenev’s age and foreshadows
the world to come. The revolu
tionary movement within it was
New Interest
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the new interest in horseback
riding.
Up until recently horseback
riding was considered too expens
ive for most. Sports minded peo
ple are realizing that the pleasure
received from this sport is well
worth the price.
Consider the fact that you don’t
need any equipment as you do
in other sports. All you do is
go to one of the many stables,
pay your money and get on. Al
though this may not seem as
easy as it sounds. If you have
never ridden before, it is advis
able to ride under the tutorage
of an instructor.
If one is an experienced rider
he is allowed to use the many
trails near the stable. But if one
is a beginner he must start in
the training ring. First you learn
the essentials such as, how to
take care of your horse, how to
mount and mainly how to stay
on.
It is important to know how to
prepare the horse for riding. Not
all stables let the customer sad
dle the horse, but I feel that this
helps the rider and horse get
to know each other. This helps
for better riding.
After you learn the basic es
sentials (not without a few falls)
you are ready for graduation.
This sport is good for all. There
is plenty, of fresh air, exercise,
and enjoyment.
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a transient affair without im
mediate consequences, but it
helped to form the mentality of
later revolutionaries who estab
lished the Soviet Union.
SONS WERE REVOLUTIONARY
The “fathers” in Fathers and
Sons represented the old way of
life, the bourgeiosie, while the
sons characterized the new revo
lutionary element, the intellect
uals and free thinkers.
Turgenev sympathized with the
sons intellectually, but in his
heart he preferred the fathers.
He characterized all men into
two categories—the Don Quixote
type, who believed in faith and
action and are naive, ardent,
single-minded, and idealistic, lab
oring in the service of abused
mankind; and the Hamlet type,
who are the introspective men of
doubt and distrust, ripe in judge
ment but generally useless.
Turgenev betrays his true feel
ing when he has his main char
acter, Bazavou die, meaningless-
ly, without having accomplished
anything. His death is an ironic
comment on the backwardness of
Russia since it was due to med
ical carelessness and ignorance.
Bazanou was a new type of
revolutionary. He was a nihilist,
a “man who does not bow down
to any authority, who does not
take any principle of faith, what
ever reverence that principle may
be enshrined in.”
He denies the values of the
fathers, seeing nothing but sent
imental falsehood in their soc
ial methods and ideals. He be
lieved Russia could not be re
formed but must be smashed
and then reconstructed.
Turgenev’s novel attacked the
futility of the “fathers” and the
silliness of the “sons,” and has a
tragic significance. It is a crit
icism of life in which Bazavou
represented the national charact
er and the original creation.
It is the story of conflict—the
timeless conflict between genera
tions, the modern conflict be
tween naturalistic, scientific
spirit and traditional faiths, and
the Russian conflict between rev
olutionaries and the Czarist re
gime.
Six Whirlies
Continued from Page One
an equivalent of a year’s work.
Governor’s School began as an
experiment in 1963. It was such
a success that the North Carolina
Legislature decided that it con
tinue in 1964 and 1965 as a
summer program for gifted high
school students.
The school is supported by
grants from the Carnegie Corpor
ation, interested Winston-Salem
businessmen, and the Mary Rey
nolds Babcock Foundation.
Sue. Swart, who will go to
Governor’s School this summer,
said, “I am so excited and can
hardly wait till June 12. I have
heard so much praise of the pro
gram, and I expect it to be one
of the most worthwhile experi
ences of my high school h’"''.
I only wish more people could
go.”
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