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THURSDAY, FEBRUARYmS THE DAILY TAR HEEL PAGE TWO PAG ot be at ti re t'c b F f he General's Naming J E' General Matthew Ridgway comes to the cupfcampus today with his warning to the nation shoutill echoing around the Washington cofii grajlors: It is dangerou and foolhardy to reduce enhDur armed forces at this time. 'I General Ridgway is caught in that beard aided controversy between those who would have funus rely chiefly on ah and atomic power and rec'those wlio insist on the,importrv:ive of the sol thedier, even in the atomic age. The General ies took a tight grip on his witness chair the set other day and disagreed strongly with his pie boss, the President. A strong, ready Ameri can Army, he said is necessary to the peace ne p the world. co One cruelly hard fact would seem to be lenoiih to justify that disagreement. In the midst of indecision and uncertainty, Ameri can power in the Pacific is weaker than it was ! m I 1 11 before the Korean agression, incidentally, i where atomic power would have been vir tually useless. Add to that the terrifying imbalance be tween Western armies and Soviet armies in Europe and comparative Russian-American t'fanucrl .strength (which by lOoVCat the pres- till I .Ml. Ulll ' UC ilifljui . I lit iaji vy i tm Uo-SRt ;i:hI General Ridgway's naming would seem u be more than the crying of a prophet ol ilno-n. We fail to see, in hct, how his wain'Mi; inn be ignored by Congress when the intino. y ! Korea is still so cle.r. Hut Rep. Martin said just last week that we could beat Communist China in 30 days it anything does happen over there; and that surely proves that the generals of CapfU?l Hill are capable of almost anything. The Imaginative Grasp Nathan M. Pusey, president of Harvard, is disturbed at the decline of the Humanities in American universities. In 25 years, the number of students in Harvard has risen by more than a thousand. But Humanities stu dents have dropped 300 in number. That statistic is repeated, more or less, at most universities, this one included. And why is that bad? Let President Pusey answer: A college in which the studies traditionally called the Humanities are weak runs the risk of being less liberal than it should; for our full humanity is best quickened and developed through imaginative grasp of the subtler exper iences of individuals as revealed through arts and letters. The chief aim of undergraduate education is to discover what -it means to be a man. A col lege or university will be strong, therefore, only where those studies flourish whose prin cipal value is to arouse such awareness and where they are , taught with charm and vigor, and win respect. N In All Its Violence No sooner had we finished complimenting North Carolina yesterday for her temperance and calm in the- face of the difficult segrega " tion issue than we received, from a Univer sity graduate, the shrill epistle printed above, right. The KKK overtones in correspondent Grimes' letter will certainly not be subscribed to by most North Carolinians, even by those who are convinced that the end of segrega tion will be a bad thing for the state. We have printed the letter in all its vio lence, not as a representative of expression of the case against integration, but as evidence that all hate, all bigotry has not yet been pinged from North Carolina's soul. Not yet, and perhaps it will never be. Hut there is ample evidence that the great tule oi opinion in our state prevails against the islands of venom that still exist. For that, we can be proud and hopeful. Wqt Bat'Ip m Jttl The official student publication of the Publi cations Board of the University of North Carolina, where it is published Carolina Front Star-Crossed Lovers In Technicolor You WILL Cease! That Is A Fact' Louis Kraar ! "GO HENCE, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardon'd and some punished; For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and Romeo." The closing lines of Shakes peare's 'Romeo and Juliet" end ed J. Arthur Rank's movie of the same name with ap propriate ad vice for all viewers at a il special preview 3 showing. fJsA Since watch- ' -4 ing the beau-tuully-filmed production Tues day night, I have gone hence and talked of the tale of the "star-crossed lovers" in Verona. It's a movie worth talking about, worth seeing. (The icriter of the following let ter, a 1954 graduate of the Uni versity, now lives in Smithfield. Editor.) At the risk of being tagged as a "Letter Writer" by the Chapel Hill apostles of international so cialism, I will tell you a few facts related to you, your nigger-loving friends, the University and the State of North Carolina. - You, Kraar, Levin, Fleishman and company are rapidly becom ing a ball and chain around the University neck. You, with your nigger-loving socialism, are turning the people of this state 'against their leading education al institution. Because of your 45? . QtwfSFiittt' ' 3 4,3 daily except Sunday, Monday and examina tion pnd vacation per iods and summer terms. Entered .s second class matter at the post office in Chapel HU1,VN. C, un der the Act of 1'arch 8, 1879. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per fear, $2.50 a semester; delivered, $6 a year, $3.50 a semester. Editor CHARLES KURALT Managing Editor, Associate Editors Business Manager Sports Editor BERNIE WEISS News Editor Jackie Goodman Circulation Manager Subscription Manager Assistant Business Manager Society Editor Jim Kiley Jack Gpdley Bill Bob Peel Eleanor Saunders putrid liberalism you are caus ing them to regard the entire University with suspicion. I graduated last year and ac tually have had to become cau tious about letting people know where I received my education, for fear of being looked on as a Red. For, you see, those who have not attended the Univer sity have no way of knowing that the tripe which spouts forth from such sources as The Dai ly Tar Heel, the Phi, the Di, the Carolina Forum, etc. is in no way relatsd to the collective opinion of eitikXr the student body or the faculty. They do not know that it is emitted by a handful who have gained access to the University voice only because the down-to-earth student will have nothing to do with your 'stupid, petty politics. You have gotten away with 'X too long. You are getting cocky and now even dare to write cheap editorials berating such state leaders as John W. Clark. Mr. Clark, an intelligent, aggres sive businessman, pays' the taxes which send kids like you to school. It is he who does, and by all rights should, control the University and should remove 3'ou from it. At a time when the Univer- FRED POWLEDGE LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER TOM SHORES Night editor for this issue -.Eddie Crutchfield WITHOUT GOING into the plot (an old, but beautiful one), this reporter can say that Susan Shentall as Juliet seemed to por tray many of the childish sides of Shakespeare's Juliet. Romeo (Laurence Harvey) played the balcony scenes con vincingly, omitting the sopho moric, love-sick air that so many Romeos have in a production this play. And Verona in the summer ah, Verona the color of 'fair Verona" is the most noteworthy thing in the film. Filmed in It aly, and with the costumes and other accoutrements of the High Renaissance, the movie imparts an atmosphere of life even when it strays from details set down by Shakespeare. All the scenes, traditionally played" on the stage with a min imum of scenery, were filmed at the places where they could have actually taken place. THIS IS a movie that the Eng lish grad students will not all be happy with. In short, it isn't a scene for scene adaptation of Shakespeare's play. However, this doesn't keep it from being a fine movie. Miss Shentall (Juliet) while not looking entirely like the 14-year-old she is playing, is at 20 a young enough actress to be convincing as Juliet. She falls for Romeo in a giddy 14-year-old manner which is both beautiful and 14-ycar-oldish. As the final stages of the trag , edy fall at the end of the movie, one almost wishes it could end a little happier, yet after it is over you realize that it couldn't have ended any other way. But this is a quality in both the play and the movie. I think it can be safely said that while the movie errs from the strictly Shakespearean course, most of the essence of the play is reflected in the movie. NOW IF YOU don't like Shakespeare, perhaps the flashy sword fighting between the feud ing houses of Montague and Cap ulet will catch your fancy. When Juliet is thought dead by her parents, but isn't, there is a .solemn scene showing her burial. Just when the viewer is about to cry, a quick shift of scene t0 Romeo on horseback galloping towards Verona is made. Romeo, as you remember, didn't know his love wasn't ac tually dead, but the thundering hoof beats after the music of the funeral ceremony shook me a little. The music, particularly in the monastery sequences (filmed on the Venetian cloister of San Francesco del Deserto), is quite beautiful. "Romeo and Juliet" opens for a three-day run at the Varsity Theatre this Sunday. The under graduate flick-goers will see it and like it. The Shakespeare scholars will see it, be awed with its beauty, then retire to their studies to pick its accuracy apart. But none will dbat its bauty, its atmosphere. It's just that kind of movie. 'Ir's The B-B-B-Bold N-New P-Program' rev 4 n ' ft 1 .': sity's leaders are before the leg islature asking for the money needed to make this institution one of the nation's greatest, you are spouting forth your incessant stream of liberalism. You are getting much to0 loud. The people of the state do not like it and they are the Uni versity's pocketbook. You WILL cease! That is a fact. Those who put the future of the Universi ty ahead of the propagation of socialism and the destruction of the Germanic races in the South are going to cut jou off. John Clark is the voice of this group. You had better listen to Clark, because if he takes too long to eradicate your school of thought, you may go the unfortunate way of all niggers and Reds who have stepped out of line in the South. Go north, young man. William C. Crims More Credit Editor: I am a student in the B.A. School. As I have spent many hours in accounting, I would like to voice my opinion concerning the credit given for B.A. 71 and 72, two accounting courses required of every student in B.A. school. A student gets three semester hours credit for spending four hours in class each week and must take an hour exam on his own time every other week. This requires a total of 65 hours actually spent in class each semester. This is, for the three semester hours credit given, far more than the 44 hours spent in any other 3-hour course. It is also more than the 58 hours spent in some of the courses for which a student gets four semester-hours credit. In view of these facts, it ap pears to me that something should and must be done to equalize credit given in the dif ferent schools of the University. I suggest that students be given more than, three semester hours credit for courses in which they spend considerably more than the number of hours re quired of a three-hour course. Name Withheld By Request Hooray! Editor: Re the music-listening facili ties at "Hill Hall: Hooray for you! It is impossible to hear anything on those tape machines. I am one who has given up in disgust many times. R. E. Fair Cocteau, Gable, & Mae West GM Brings Great Films To Campus By Ebba Freund "Blood Of A Poet," the third in the Graham Memorial Ac tivities Board's Film Series, will be shown tonight at 8 in Car roll Hall. It is another in the laudable 1 series which brings the world's great films to the campus films which students would not likely see unless they took a trip to New York. That is the purpose of the Film Series. Jack Markham, Se ries chairman, says that the film committee selects motion pic lures that do not make the rounds of the commercial the atres but are still good movies. Of the right films shown this "semester, four are relatively new foreign films. Tonight's offering is an out standing example of the work of the' film committee. "Blood Of A Poet" is written, directed and narrated by Jean Cocteau; it is an attempt to combine sur realism with the art of the film. Cocteau, who has done such movies as "The Storm Within" and "Orpheus" , calls "Blood Of A Poet" "a realistic document composed of unreal happenings." Lineup. Like your art on the screen? Here's a lineup of top motion pictures being brought to the campus by GMAB: Blood Of A Poet Tonight. Rocking Horse Winner Mar. 10. My Little Chickadee Mar. 24. Rigoletto April 14. Eternal Mask April 28. It Happened One Night May 22. In the movie he has created a world based on symbols juxta posed with familiar objects. The film should interest those who regard the movies as an art me dium and who like strange ex periences. About one-fourth 0f the film series ticket holders are towns people, one-half graduate stu dents and one-fourth under-' graduates. Why' such a small percentage of undergraduattes? Markham says students may think the motion pictures are of too limited appeal. A BROAD RANGE But there's a broad range of interest manifested in the selec tion. "The Eternal Mask," a story of a young doctor's fight to regain his sanity, should in terest those concerned with psy chology and medicine. Opera lovers should find "Ri goletto" rewarding. Virgil Thom son said of this film, "This is what Verdis 'Rigoletto' looks like when performed by the best con temporary artists. Those who like Clark Gable can find him in the role for which he won an Os car in "It Happened One Night." Although the movies in the film series are older and in some cases "artier" than, say, "Underwater!" they should ap peal to anyone interested in mo tion pictures. 'Except, perhaps, for "Blood Of A Poet," they were mde for average audiences. The only difference is that some of the films were made abroad and 10 to 20 years ago. WHAT HAS JANE GOT? But then what has Jane Rus sell got that Mae West hasn't? (Mae West is in "The Little Chickadee," a burlesque on wes terns.) The ticket for the series costs $2 for the remaining six movies about 35 cents per film. The reason tickets are not sold sing ly, according to Markham, is that GMAB gets the films for less if they are presented on a mem bership basis. Tickets for the remaining films are on sale at the Graham Me morial Information Office. r """v - r' , .yyijir-;-- - - r 1 -r-i' j-f 1 ; r,- SCENE FROM 'BLOOD OF A POET' . . a realistic documenUs&nposed of unreal happenings. DETAIL FROM CAROLINA QUARTERLY COVER The Quarterly Is Worth Your Forty-Five Cents Ed Yoder Our more liter'ry colleagues from the mc.anine at the other end of the G.M. hall have sent us down page proofs from the new Carolina Quarter ly, which Editor J. A. C. Dunn and his stall will distribute beginning today. Here's a brief run-down of what to expect vhen you buy your copy: NOT UP TO SNUFF The lead article, "The Little Theater In Amer ica," by Archie Hess presents more difficulties than any of the Quarterly's winter offerings. The writer can't help but feel that it doesn't mach up to Quarterly standards which have been set by a tradition of good articles in the past. Mr. Hess writes with a couple of ideas in mind: (1) You can't buck the tastes, of Broadway with the grass roots theatre; and (2) the college and university campuses are he proper locales for little thea ters. It was disappointing to find that Mr. Hess ex . eludes from his article any mention of the Caro lina Playmakers or of the symphonic dramas which have grown out of Chapel Hill. This is not to be so provincial as to suggest that the Carolina Quarterly should slant all of its articles toward Chapel Hill; but in view of the fact that Chapel Hill is seldom mentioned in the new Quarterly and that any article about the theater could do well to mention the Chapel Hill contribution Mr. Hess's article would have been improved by consideration of lo cal force. Aside from that fault, the article lacks arrange ment; generalizes too much without giving proper evidence .for the same generalities; and includes long paragraphs of obvious statements that could easily have been stricken from it. Finally, "The Little Theater In America" is the sole article of the issue. Where are the articles of yesteryear? POETRY PAYS OFF Poetry in the winter Quarterly, except for "A Little Conservative" an anonynrms composition is not easily read; but, while requiring .some concentration, it pays the patient reader well after several concentrated examinations. If the reviewer could attempt to characterize the poetry , in one easy word, he would call it "dionysiac" for what ever that's worth. "Libation to The Lesser Gods," and "How Loyal Is My Fear" could have come to life on paper after some Germans week-ends. Overall, Mr. Ri vera, who must have succumbed to the "X-Claw-hammers" attack of last year, has again given us some good poetry. Comedy bursts into the pages of the Quarterly with a loud hoop-and-holler with W. David Ash burn's "The Salesman Ruptured By A Streetcar." In this sophosticatcd one-act play. Mr. Ashburn, who took MA here last year and now teaches at Union College, has some fun at the expense of drama critics played in the- piece by three critic images, Stink, Stank and Stunk. The whole thing is full of Freud, futility, soul-selling, the "i.ni.s'' (mainly material and nihil-) and it is guaran tee! to give you some good laughs. AN OLD TALE WITH A NEW TWIST Perhaps the most polished piece of work in the new Quarterly is "Suttee," a story by Robin White. The story, set in India, where. Mr. White was born, brings toge ther the conflict of Western technolo gy with an" agc oid Oriental re ligion and Willi resurgent national ism and a boy who - cried - wolf tale with a new twist; it is a ser ious and moving story, and worthy of anthologizing. David Elliott's story, "Journey Before Dawn," is good, whimsical, and very readable. Ever wanted to euii anyb o d y ' s throat? If you have !an' rhin: 'ilnn-r that lino t. ,,l "Tell You Me," a story by Carl Cook in "The Be.t Freshman Writing Of the Fall Semester"- tin psychology of throat-cutting -ots foil exposun here. Mr. Cook's sory was selected alon- wit! James A. Oldham's duck-hunting vignette "Open ing Day," for inclusion in this new and 'valuable feature of the Quarterly. A recognition of th younger writers on campus is long overdue- md "The Best Freshman Writing of The Fall Seme ter" is perhaps the most serviceable part "of iho new magazine. Review Editor Jim Graves's book review .section is highly competent again this time. One thin" though: Mr. H. A. Sieber's "In This TheNlaHa; Year" didn't excite me.nearly as much as it teei 2 to have excited Mr. Rivera, who reviews it If you don t happen to be a Quarterly subscriber forego the next C-Movi, downtown, pfly " i I" cents, and treat yourself to one of xL hit reading to be had. You'll be glad you did h"U' ' f- 'j Quarterly Illustration
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