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"Enormous Changes el the Las! r.inuta,"
Grece Paley, Farrsr, Straus, end Giroux
The American short story is alive and
well or so proclaim the nation's literati.
Three of the four leading candidates for the
1974 National Book Award are short story
writers, among them Doris Belts, nominated
for her Beasts oj the Southern Wild
collection. While publishing houses and
magazines continue to treat the genre as an
unprofitable nuisance, more and better
stories are reviving critical respect for an art
often practiced, but rarely practiced well,
Grace Paley's second collection of stories,
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, is an
important book: It is important because it
follows a talented mind examining the
character and limitations of short fiction,
and it is important because the examination
is conducted with much honesty and little
bad writing.
More than the novel or the poem, the
short story is a creature of its point of view.
Short fiction assumes a voice which shapes
events, stylizing them within the writer's
limitation of a few thousand words and
within the story's limitations of time and
space. Few authors consistently achieve the
necessary control over their material" to
balance the elements of what they say and
Beckett symposium set
A symposium on Irish playwright, novelist and poet Samuel Beckett will be held
Thursday through Saturday on the UNC campus.
In addition to lectures and workshops with leading Beckett scholars, the
symposium will offer cinema presentations of selected Beckett works, a dramatic
presentation produced by the UNC drama department and an exhibition of
manuscripts, letters, books and photographs.
Symposium director Dr. Edward Morot-Sir said that many scholars and critics
consider Beckett to be the greatest writer since World War II. He is best known for
his play Waiting jor Godot and for his contributions to the Theatre of the Absurd.
The symposium will open at 8 p.m. Thursday in 100 Hamilton Hall. Ruby Cohn
of the University of California at Davis will speak. She is author of several books on
Beckett.
The Symposium is sponsored by the UNC Departments of English and Romance
Languages with the cooperation of the Department of Dramatic Art and the
Extension Division. For more information call 933-1124.
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how they say it. Most bypass the conflict and
become either raconteurs or verbal
pranksters. Grace Paley wants to be a
raconteur, but at heart she is a prankster,
and her voices tell their stories with a
bemusement and fatalism befitting such a
dilemma; trapped within a point of view they
are forced to entertain through wit and
eccentricity.
The most entertaining people in
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute are
the man and woman protagonists of the title
story. Alexandra is a middle-aged social
worker on the way to visit her dying father.
She is seduced by Dennis, a poet-songwriter-taxi
driver who gets her pregnant and
composes verses about lepers, ecology,
ophidious gardens and fatherhood. After
various dips in and out of reality and
semantics, the plot ends nicely. The story is a
success. We are taken by Paley's cleverness
and she knows it. But she also knows that
Dennis and Alexandra cannot exist outside
their dialogue. Dennis will never go to a
hospital because, he says, "I hate to be in the
hands of strangers . . . Your destiny's in their
hands. It's up to them. Do you live? Or are
you a hippie crawling creep from their point
of view?' Dennis will never trust his point of
view to the point of view of a doctor, or of a
reader. They are both strangers.
Paley's questioning continues as she
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explores the recurrent character of Faith.
Like Dennis and Alexandra, Faith is alive
within the author's verbal acrobatics the
story Faith in a Tree" is a good example
but one senses at times Paley's feeling that
her character's life has not been told. A
suspicious neighbor named Mrs. Raftery
gives rise to a muse, but invoked or not,
Paley finally decides she cannot make use of
the raconteur's fiction. Faith is not Mary
Hines. Sixty pages later Paley is actively
defending her creations in A Conversation
with My Father." Sure of her method and of
her ability to make it work, she rejects her
father's storyteller criticism: "Jokes," he
says, "as a writer that's your main trouble.
You don't want to recognize it. Tragedy! No
hope. The end." But Grace Paley realizes
that the people of her short stories do not
work in history. Their mystery leaves them
and all that remains are the author's
mechanics. The characters lose their rhythm;
against the background of a dramatic fiction
they become a bad joke. So while Father,
and perhaps Raftery, look on with
disapproval, Dennis, Alexander and Faith
tell their stories neither from history nor
from drama. Instead they acknowledge the
possibility of laughter and the possibility
of enormous changes at the last minute.
Grace Paley, by her own cheerful
admission, does short stories because "art is
too long and life is too short ." It would be
easy to say that in making a choice between
remarks and literature, she decided against
trying the latter. But that is unfair. There is
an excellence iajearning one's craft well
enough to live with it. Grace Paley has
learned to live with her stories and maybe
that is just as good as art, if not better.
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being turned into excellent entsrtainmsnt by
some talented hands. 1:53, 4:10, :33 a E:53.
$2. Ends Thursday. Late shows: Friday and
Saturday, The Possession of Joel Deliney."
Sunday, "One Day in the Ufa of Ivan
Denlsovlch." 11:15. $1.50.
The Groove Tube." Varsity Theatre. 1,3,5,
7 & 9. $2. Late show: Friday and Saturday,
"Mash." 11:15. $1.50.
"Day for NIchL" Plaza I. Trufiauf s Jove
letter to film making is wonderful, touching,
funny, charming, delightful, etc An
exhiiersting experience, not to be ml3sed.
2:45, 5, 7:15 & 8:33. $2. Ends Thursday.
"Conrack." Plaza II. Martin Ritfs story of a
teacher in a poverty area has received good
early reviews. 3, 5X5, 7:10 & 9:15. $2. Ends
Thursday.
The Exorcist" Plaza III. 2, 4:30, 7 & 9:30.
$3.
Free flicks: Friday, "A Streetcar Named
Desire." Tennessee Williams' best play,
brilliantly acted, directed and photographed.
A great experience. Saturday, The Ruling
Class." A satire on the upper classes. Weak as
satire, and rather sloppy, but filled with witty
lines, and exceptional performances.
Sunday, The Go Between." (Super Sunday,
by subscription only.) A perversa and
chillingly beautiful tale of love and deception.
Well done in every respect. 6:03 & 9 in the
Great Hall.
Alternative Cinema: "If I Had a Gun." Czech
comedy about children during World War II.
The best Czech film I have sesn...a
classic." Pauline Kael, New Yorker.
Saturday at 2, 7 & 9:33 in Carroll KaX
Admission, $1.50.
Charlie Chaplin Film Series: "Monsieur
Verdoux." A biting, sardonic black comedy in
which Chaplin plays wife killer. With Martha
Raye. Sunday at 2, 4:30, 7 and E:33 In Carroll
Hall. $1.
Chapel Hill Rim Friends: The Passenger."
(Poland, 193S). An unfinished film of life in a
Nazi women's camp. Friday at 9:33. Saturday
at 11:30 in Carroll Hall. $1.50.
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Kelly. 9 p.m. Wednesday in the Hloot Court
Room of the Law School. 53 cents.
"Gvrana Toshi." A Japanese film dealing
with cross-cultural communications.
Presented by the International Student
Centpr. Friday at 7:33 in 111 Murphy HaSI. 53
cents.
"Montgomery to Memphis." A
documentary on Martin Luther King. Today et
8 p.m. In the Great Hall. $1.
"Le if Sings the Elues." Friday et 7 & 9 in the
Stewart Theatre, NCSU.
"Colonial Ha turaii st." Presented by the
N.C Museum of History in the auditorium of
the State Library Building, Raleigh. Sunday,
3-4 p.m. Admission free.
Concerts
Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee.
Presented by the Carolina Union in
cooperation with the Black Arts Festival.
Thursday, April 11 at 8 p.m. in Memorial Hall.
Tickets, $2, at Union Desk.
The Carpenters. Monday, A pril 15 at
Reynolds Coliseum, Raleigh. Tickets, $4, $5
and $8 in advance; $5, $S and $7 at door.
Available at Record Bars in Raleigh, Durham,
Chapel Hill, Greenville, Rocky Mount and
Reynolds Coliseum box office.
John Denver. Saturday, April 27 at the
Dorton Arena, Raleigh. 8 p.m. Tickets, $4, $5
and $S, available at Record Bars in Ra!eigh,
Durham and Chapel Hill.
"Music of the Orient." A lecture by William
Malm. Today at 8 p.m. in Hill Hail.
"2Cth Century Art Songs." Stephenie
Meivin, mezzo. Michael Zenge, piano.
Thursday at 8 p.m. in Hill Hail.
Duke Junior Recital featuring Kathleen
Ryan, pianist. Friday et 8:15 p.m. in the East
Duke Music Room.
Duke Senior Recti a I featuring Patricia
Wuencsh, pianist Saturday at 8:15 p.m. in the
East Duke Music Room.
Bcbby Womack appearing with Chocolate
Funk. In conjunction with the Fourth Annual
Pan African Festival of NCSU. Saturday at 8
p.m. in Reynolds Coliseum, Raleigh. Tickets,
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UHC Chamber Orchestra. David Senins,
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Duke University Wind Symphony presents
a Lawn Concert Sunday at 2:30 p.m. in the
Sarah P. Duke Memorial Gardens on the Duke
West Campus.
"The Seven Last Vords of Christ."
Presented by the White Rock Baptist Church
Senior Choir and the North Carolina Little
Symphony. Sunday at 4:50 p.m. in the White
Rock Baptist Church, 34C3 Fayetteville St,
Durham.
Theatre
UNC Reader's Thestre: "The Great
Gatsby." An adaption of the book by F. Scott
Fitzgerald. 8 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday
in Deep Jonah. Admission free.
Tallulah, A Memory." A one woman show
presented by Eugenia Rawls, a long time
friend and professional associate of Tallulah
Bankhead. 8 p.m. Saturday in the Ptaymakers
Theatre. Free tickets available at the
Playmakers Business Office, Graham
Memorial.
"The Dentist" A "comedia d'el arte" piece,
developed by Buck Kohr and Rebecca
Ranson, from a scenario by Flaminio Scala. 4
p.m. Thursday in 103 Graham Memorial. Free
tickets available at the Lab Theatre Office,
Graham Memorial.
"Experiencing Beckett" Produced in
conjunction with the Beckett Symposium. 6
p.m. Thursday, 4 p.m. Friday in CS Graham
Memorial. Free tickets available at the Lab
Theatre Office, Graham Memorial.
"Lo and Behold." Village Dinner Theatre,
Raleigh. Buffet at 6:45, curtain at 8:33. Call
787-7771 for for reservations. Nightly except
Monday. Ends Wednesday, April 24.
Dance
The Eleo Pomare Dance Company.
Sponsored by the Black Students' Board in
conjunction with the Fourth Annual Pan
African Festival of NCSU. Today at 8 p.m. in
Stewart Theatre, NCSU. $1.50.
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