Sunday, March 17, 1968
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By FRANK BALLARD
of The Dailu Tar Heel Staff
A literary historian recogniz
ed as "probably the best
known scholar in American
literature today" is leading an
English graduate school
seminar at UNC this
semester.
Dr. Robert E. Spiller is a
visiting professor here from
the University of Pennsylvania
at Philadelphia in connection
with the UNC plus Duke
Cooperative Humanities
Program.
The chairman of the English
Department, Dr. C. Carroll
Hollis, lauded Spiller as the
most famous scholar in the
field of American literature.
He also labeled Spiller's three
volume Literary History of the
United States "the most widely
used critical history of
American literature."
His 11 graduate students are
writing Ph.D. research papers
on the topic Spiller is currently
investigating. "I'm involved in
editing an edition of the works
of Ralph Waldo Emerson and
have a good deal of his un
published material which the
students use," he explained.
"I'm turning my research in
to a workshop for them."
After nearly 50 years of stu
dying, teaching and writing
American literature and its
history, Spiller explained why
he is concentrating on
Emerson. .
"Emerson was the central
shaping influence on 19th cen
tury American literature not
the most important author, but
the focal author.
"His work and position in
relation to other authors define
the main trends and forces at
work at the time."
Emerson's importance in the
development of the literature
of the nation particularly in
terests Spiller because "I'm a
literary historian, not a
critic."
"A literary historian believes
in the cause and the effect in
the development of literature.
A person writes something for
a reason. He is part of the
culture at that time and
place."
Spiller watched the approach
of literary historians diminish
as "the new critics" of the
1930's saw the need to focus on
the art in literature instead of
its context.
"The change was needed,"
Spiller. agreed, "literature had
gone out of literary history." ,
Now the new emphasis on
criticism of literature that TJS.
Eliot and Cleanth Brooks'
Understanding Poetry helped
begin has "gone too far."
But the once-neglected
literary historian's approach is
danger of a stagnant outlook.
And Spiller is ' among the
faithful who have kept their
approach to literature with an
eye to its context.
"They're going back to
literary history. They see
"Huckleberry Finn" as a com
mentary on mid-19th century
America and then ask How it
got that way. This is good.
"We're doing the same tiling
to the critics that they did to
us years ago," Spiller con
cluded, smiling.
In addition to fostering
literary history, Spiller led in
developing the American
Civiliation curriculum a t
Pennsylvania. The study pro
gram is known as American
Studies here and offered as an
undergraduate Arts and
Sciences major.
From only a few colleges it
has spread throughout the
United States and Europe as a
separate field of study. Since
the late lMO's, Spiller has
traveled extensively in this
country, Europe and Asia pro
moting the American Studies
program.
He helped to found the
American Studies Association
in 1955 and also its magazine,
American Quarterly.
This dual interest in the
rftory and literature of
America explains "the strange
paradox of my being a name
professor of English and also
the former chairman of Penn's
American Civiliation Department."
'Gone WUk The Wind
Bigger, Better Classic
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Campus Calendar For
Sunday And Monday
By HARVEY ELLIOTT
of The Daily Tar Heel Staff
GONE WITH THE WIND.
Starring Clark Gable, Vivien
Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia
dellavilland. M - G - M . At
Lakewood Center Theatre,
Durham.
Have you been to visit Tara
again this year?
Well, don't neglect it. "Gone
With The Wind" is, quite
literally, bigger and better
than ever.
The M-G-M technicans have
taken each individual frame of
the film, chopped a bit off the
top and bottom of the pic
tureit's rarely noticable and
blown it up to fit the modern
wide-screen.
Projected in 70mm and full
stereophonic sound, the movie,
seems like a new release. The
colors were touched up, and
there is none of the jumping
and annoying splicing so often
tolerated in older films.
And it's still a classic. Oh,
sure, it's unabashedly roman
tic, old-fashioned, and even a
little corny ("Oh, Scarlett,'
can't we just go away and
forget we ever said these
SUNDAY
CHAPEL HILL TUTORIAL
PORJECT is in need of more
volunteer tutors, especially
to work with elementary and
junior high students. If in
terested, please inquire at
the Y Building, room 102 or
104, or call 933-2333.
PERCUSSIONISTS who read
well needed to play in UNC
Concert Band. Come by
room 109, Hill Hall any after
noon. PURIM PAINT-IN today 2-4
p.m. sponsored by a special
committee of the Hillel ,
Foundation. There will be
food, fun, friends (from
UNC, State, Duke, UNC-G
and Ft. Bragg), music and
lots of surprises. Dress
VERY casually and come
express yourself in a
psychedelic carnival at
mosphere. Members 50 cents
and non-members 75 cents.
PSYCinC EXPERIENCE, -Experimental
College Class
No. 37, will meet in 203
Alumni at 6:30 p.m.
"DEVI," a movie scheduled to
be showni by the India
Association today, has been
cancelled. It will be shown
Sunday March 31 at 7:30
p.m. in Carroll Hall.
SUSIE WEAVER'S Gospel
Singers will appear at the
Wesley Foundation Gallery
Coffee Shop at 9 p.m. The
coffee shop is open 8-12 p.m.
and everyone is welcome.
SERVICE of worship for the
third Sunday in Lent will be
held at the Wesley Foun
dation Chapel at 11 a.m.
PRESTON DOBBINS will
speak about the black stu
dent movement to the Stu
dent Religious Liberals at
7:30 p.m. in Roland Parker
Lounge of Graham
Memorial.
COLLEGE LIFE
the Beta House
top athlete
University of
basketball team will
Everyone invited.
"VIETNAM AND THE
DRAFT" will be discussed
by a panel of student leaders
. at 6:30 p.m. in the
Presbyterian Student Center.
The panel will represent con
flicting radical, liberal and
conservative opinions. At
5:30. a brief worshio service
in "ultra modern" form will
be presented.
MONDAY
DESPERATE NEED for stu
dent volunteers to assemble
the index for this year's
Yackety-Yack. If you have
any spare time please stop
by the basement of Graham
Memorial 12-5 p.m. Monday
through Friday.
UNC ANGEL FLIGHT will
hold a sale today in Y
Court. . "
ORIENTATION COUNSELOR!
INTERVIEWS for fall will
be held in Roland Parker
Lounge of Graham Memorial
2-5 p.m. today through
Wednesday.
LET IT ALL HANG OUT -participants
should obtain
the following items for
tomorrow's meeting at 4
p.m. in the Forest Theatre:
one kite, one instrument for
jug band, one small mirror
and 1001 crazy ideas.
Everybody come. Anyone
welcome.
WOMEN'S ATHLETIC
ASSOCIATION will meet in
the Women's Gym at 6:30
p.m.
things?"
But the
compared
Newmans,
performances, even
with the Paul
Faye Dunawavs
and Dustin Hoffmans of today,
cannot be faulted.
Vivien Leigh is magificent as
the flighty, fickle Scarlett
O'Hara. The Englishwoman
captures every ingredient of
the Margaret Mitchell heroine,
as if she, too, had been raised
on a Southern plantation and
had lived through the horrors
of the Civil War to start over
from scratch.
Clark Gable is her
foil Rhett Butler, the visitor
from Charleston. He, like
Scarlett, is unscrupulous and
passionate. But, as dashing
and devil-may-care as Rhett
appears, he only wants
Scarlett to love him and forget
her hopeless pining for Ashley
Wilkes.
Leslie Howard and Olivia
deHavilland portray Ashley
and Melanie Wilkes.
Ashley always the gentleman,
but too weak ever to send
Scarlett away. Melanie who
never doubted her husband and
always defended Scarlett.
Rhett calls her "the only com
pletely kind person I
ever met."
And Hattie McDaniel, as
Mammy, steals every one of
her scenes. Her command over
the O'Hara household, her coy
flirtations with "that old mule"
Rhett, and the touching scene
re-
following the child's death
quire her to play a wide range
ui emotions.
Sure, she's a stereotype. So
what! It may not be a true pic
ture of the contemporary
Negro, but, as the preface
states, this civilization is "gone
with the wind."
The era is recaptured. The
cavaliers, the slavery, the
Virginia Reels, and the
wartime destitution are of a
romantic time. It is not
derogatory to call the movie a
similarly romantic spectacle.
The visually impressive
scenes of burning Atlanta, the
dying men in the city's streets,
the ravished Tara, and the
cotillion balls are only a few of
the memorable moments in the
film.
It won ten Oscars in 1939, in
cluding acting awards for Vi
vien Leigh and Hattie
McDaniel. Only Olivia
deHavilland, of all the prin
cipals, is alive today.
"Gone With The Wind will
probably charm generations to
come. The mere fact that we
are paying $2 a ticket to see
this film, 30 years after its
original release, testifies to its
greatness.
It makes one wonder if "The
Sound of Music" will be as suc
cessful if re-released in 1995.
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Hit-making PLATTERS will be in concert Tuesday at Carmicliael
... singing "Sweet, Sweet Lovin," "With This Ring," and other greats
Platters Will Perform Tuesday
Kenan Prof. Hoggard:
Freedom In Arts
By RIC WATSON
Special to The Daily Tar Heel
"Everyone should be a,
creative listener," said Dr.
Lara Hoggard, the new Kenan
Professor of Music. "I think
the arts 'offer the greatest -freedom
for the development
of the spirit."
Dr. Hoggard is concerned
with the student's lack of in
terest in the arts. "We're fac
ing an increase of conformity
and the development o f
'robotism.' Everyone is becom
ing a number."
"Sure a student will say 'I
like the arts,' but does he
really take time to read a
great poem every day?"
In a recent concert by the
Carolina Choir, which Hoggard
directs, only 30 percent of the
audience was students. The
rest were adults from Chapel
Hill and vicinity. All the songs
were secular and mostly about
love and therefore should in
terest students.
j JJr. Hoggard--was born, in
Kinston, - Okla., and finished
high school when he was only
15. He held down four jobs to
put himself and two sisters
through college.
The summer before he
started college he was a
roustabout in an oil field. While
at school, he played in a dance
band, did janitor work, washed
dishes and taught four piano
pupils.
He was given a $2,000 award
for graduate study in recogni
tion of his choral directing in
Texas.
Dr. Hoggard received his
doctorate from Columbia
University with the highest
profile possible for a doctoral
candidate.
'"i He became permanent con
ductor of the North Carolina
summer Choral workshops
after holding many , important
conducting positions, including
assistant director of Fred War
ing's Pennsylvanians.
Before coming to Carolina he
was the conductor and
originator of the Midland
Odessa (Texas) Symphony and
Choral. In five years he
developed this orchestra
(fourth largest in Texas,) as
well as the nationally renown
ed choral, out of two oil cities
that had hated each other.
Dr. Hoggard came to
Carolina because he was "very
moved that UNC gave one of
its Kenan Professorships in the
, fine arts."
Thirteen years ago a group
of friends met around a Los
Angeles hot dog stand and for
nothing else to do they started
to sing. One thing led to another
and the friends started a group
and picked out a name The
Platters.
Ten gold records and 13
years later, The Platters are
still making music and records
that sell. Among the recent
hits are, "I Love You 1000
Times," "With This Ring," and
on the charts now are "Washed
Ashore" and "Sweet, Sweet
Lovin'."
If you are tired of the Plat
ters, you're in the minority.
Despite the fact that this group
has appeared in Chapel Hill for
the 1st three years, they will
still pack them into
Carmichael this Tuesday when
they go on the stage at 8 p.m.
The Platters are a show unto
themselves.. They sing, clown
and create a bright and finger
snapping evening. Their bag is
soul!
Chiefly responsible for the
Platters' success has been
their discovered, founder and
arranger Buck Ram. He wrote
"their million-sellers: "The
Great Pretender," "The Magic
Touch" and 'Twilight Time."
He also was responsible for the
smash arrangements on "My
Prayer" and "Smoke Gets in
Your Eyes."
With these records paving
the way, the group has sold
over 75 million records and
their albums have become
what is called "perpetual in-
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ventory" in record stores.
They have been hailed by
critics as "a talented,
personable group of people
whose star shines brighter as
their anniversaries increase."
General Admission tickets
are on sale at Graham
Memorial information desk for
$1.75.
NOW PLAYING
Shows at 13579
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TECHNICOLORS FROM WARNER BROSSEVEN ARTS V. J
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All . this week from 1 p.m. till 6 p.m.
Pitcher of Your Favorite Beverage $1.00
with any purchase of
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Writing Contest Entries Due
will meet at
at 9 p.m. A
from the
Georgia
speak.
March 30 is title deadline for
any interested UNC creative
writing students to enter the
Jessie Render Poetry and Fic
tion Contest, sponsored by the
University English
Department's Creative Writing
Program.
Miss Rehder was formely
director of the Creative
Writing Program before her.
death in Feb., 1967.
More than 464 N.C. high
school students have already
entered the conest. Winners of
both contests will be an
nounced April 15.
The first prize high school
winner will receive $100 and
the two runners up, $25 each.
In the college competition the
person with the best short
story entry will receive $75 and
the best poetry entry, also
$75.
All prize money for the two
contests was raised during the
first annual Jessie Rehder
Memorial Flea Market held
this fall, the day before the
Duke-Carolina game.
According to Max Steele,
now director of the English
Department's Creative Writing
Program, a creative writing
brochure about the program is
also being published with
money from the Market.
The UNC Press will later
publish books in the Jessie
Rehder Memorial Series.
Miss Rehder joined the UNC
faculty in 1947. The editor of
numerous books and the author
of many short stories, reviews
and essays, she edited a book
entitled CHAPEL HILL CAR
ROUSEL (March, 1967, UNC
Press) a collection of writings
growing out of the Creative
Writing Program.
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"THE PLATTER
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8:00 P.M. in Carmichael Auditorium
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It's a pleasure to report that The Platters have returned for another fling it Carolina. Tho
this peppy platoon of singers has been absent from Carolina for some time now they seem
in finer form than before. '
There are reasons.
One, Sandra Dawn is back with the group adding her special razzle-dazzle to the pyrotech
nics. Two, there is another cast change. Milt Russell has replaced Nate Nelson.
Three, their recent record successes have given this get-happy group new confidence, and
it shows.
For the record, other members include such familiar faces and voices (personalities, too)
as lead singer Sonny Turner; bass. Herb Reed, and cut-up Larry Johnson.
Tickets on sate for $1.25 for U.N.C. students at the Graham Memorial Information Desk
until 6:C0 p.m. Tickets at tne coor