Sunday, December 1. 1963
BOOKS
‘Woman Pleasure 9
Isn’t A Treasure
MEMOIRS OF A WQMAN
OF PLEASURE. By John Cle
land. G. P. Putnam’s Sons. 319
I>ages, with introduction by
Peter Quennell, a history of
the book’s printings, and bibli
ography. $6.
By J. A. C. DUNN
Judging by some of the lite
rary fare offered on news
stands, it is easy to see why
this book was published. But why
Putnam should do it is hard to
tell, unless the fortunes of the
i publishing world have become
drastically more ebb than flow.
Even Mr. Quennell, lending a
tone of scholarly respectability
to a fundamentally unrespect
able work, is not unlike Brooks
Atkinson reviewing a burlesque
show.
John Cleland’s “classic” (sic)
novel about Fanny Hill, an or
phaned country girt who went to
London to seek her fortune and
found it in prostitution, is dull.
' As pornography, it limps. Porno
graphy is all right as a literary
curiosity, like Clerihews, limer
icks, and the go-for-broke auto
biographies of aging newspaper
men. Good pornography even
makes good reading. But good
pornography is extremely diffi
cult to produce, and should,
probably, be attempted only by
writers whose taste and control
render them immune to the titil
lating spell of their own writ
ing.
Mr. Cleland wrote the “Me
moirs" for money, because he
needed money. He got twenty
guineas for it in 1748," which
would keep a man out of debt
or’s prison for a while. But that
was evidently the only reason he
wrote it, and its intended lite
rary value is absolutely clear:
you were supposed to get all
wrought up and tell somebody
else about it, who would then go
out and buy a copy, get' all
wrought up, tel 1 somebody
else. . . .
Works now, and it worked
then. Since 1749 Fanny Hill’s
“Memoirs” have been repeated
ly reprinted, illustrated, banned,
smuggled, pirated, bowdlerized,
embellished, sequeled, and have
earned lots of money. It is be
lieved that the profits from the
first publication enabled the
publisher to set up as a gentle
man, which took some doing in
Georgian London.
But there is a startling simi
larity betweep the story of Fan
ny Hill’s formative years in Lon
don and a line of paperbacks
found on newsstands nowadays,
the titles of which lean hard on
the words lust, sin, flesh, cult,
shame, wanton end passion.
They are not what you would
call intellectually rewarding
books, but the eye certainly does
Duke Prof Writes
On Student Freedom
College student organizations
should be free to invite speakers
to the campus without prior
authorization as to speaker or
topic.
This position is taken by Dr.
Phillips Monypenny, professor of
political science at the University
of Illinois, in an article appear
ing in the current issue of “Law
and Contemporary Problems,”
Duke University Law School
quarterly.
Writing on the topic, "Toward
A Standard for Student Academic
Freedom,” Dr. Monypenny as-
UNC Represented
In Duke Volume
Duke University Press has pub
lished a book that examines the
many revolutionary changes in
the South and its way of life since
1920.
Entitled “Change in the Con
temporary South,” the volume
was edited by Dr. Allan P. Sind
ler of the Duke Political Science
Department.
In the book, authorities in the
fields of law, history, economics,
political science and sociology
combine to present an analysis
of the often turbulent changes
/in the South.
Consisting of a series of essays,
the book discusses such timely
problems and issues as race re
lations. Democratic and Republi
can politics, Negro voter regis
tration and political re-alignment.
In a summary, Dr. Sindler
■hows some trends he believes
have been established in Southern
life, renders some judgments and
raises some pertinent questions.
Contributors include faculty
members of Duke, as wcM as the
Universities of North Carolina,
Kentucky, Alabama and Michigan
and Lake Forest College.
get dragged irresisUbly on page
by page. The lascivious mono
tony of the characters’ lives is
fascinating.
Fanny’s “Memoirs” are much
the same. Mr. Quennell points
out, with the antiseptic dignity
of the reputable scholar, that
“for all its abounding improprie
ties, (Cleland’s) priapic novel is
not a vulgar book. It treats of
pleasure as the aim and end of
existence, and of sexual satis
faction as the epitome of pleas
ure, but does so in a style that,
despite its inflammatory sub
ject, never stoops to a gross or
unbecoming word. .
True. Fanny’s vocabulary con
tains no gross words. Fanny’s
memoirs describe some pretty
gross parties, on the other hand.
Christine Keeler couldn't have
learned anything from Fanny,
but at the same time Fanny
couldn’t have learned anything
from Christine. True, the (rela
tive) delicacy with which Fanny
describes her rock-plummet from
virtue to venality is not vulgar.
But there is something flabbily,
vulgar about “pleasure as the*
aim and end of existence.” As
1 for sexual satisfaction being the
epitome of pleasure, this is unde
niable, if you’re in the mood.
But the value of a life which fol
lows the bouncing ball from what
perhaps-can best be called sex
cene to sexcene is questionable.
If the sexcenes even varied a bit
it would be an improvement (you
can't go into this thoroughly in
a family newspaper), but the
heartbeat regularity with which
1 the images and circumstances
of Fanny’s life of pleasure appear
and reappear is not really even
scabrous. It is sedative.
Mr. Quennell makes a plea for
the present publication on Hie
grounds that it is a historically
valuable picture of life in the
mid-1700’s in London, which is
ridiculous. Cleland doesn't tell
you anything of historical value
that Boswell doesn't, and while
BosweU and other literary figures
of that age do not chronicle
their fellow-countrymen’s spare
time erotic activities quite as
far down to the burlap as Cle
land does, they have the sense
not to play the same scene to
the same audience 97 different
times before going on with the
secpnd act.
Putnam's publication of the
“Memoirs” does have one value: ■
it wipes the glitter off the ban.
Like an old manuscript, contra
band yellows when exposed to
the open air. Now that the shine
is off the subterfuge, if we’re
going to have pornography
(item: we’re going to have it),
perhaps we can get on to some
thing of the stature of Pierre
Louys’ “Aphrodite” or “The
Songs of Bilitis.” Meanwhile,
back at the newsstand. . . .
serts also that “. . . student pub
lications should enjoy a similar
freedom of publication without
advance censorship or subsequent
sanction because of faculty dis
approval of content or style of
expression.”
In still another view, he said,
“Every teacher must ask him
self whether the information at
his disposal about students must
not be guarded as carefully
against unnecessary disclosure
as are the physicians's knowledge
of his patients, the clergyman’s
knowledge of his parishioners, or
the lawyer's knowledge of his
client's affairs.
“The field of the academic free
dom of students is thus a compre
hensive field because the student
is so much more thoroughly im
mersed in the life of the institu
tion and so much more dependent
on it than even is the faculty
member.
“The only knowledge which fa
worthwhile in the end is the
knowledge of how to gain knowl
edge for the purposes for which
one needs it and how to employ
it in judgments about difficult
questions. For that knowledge to
be gained there must be substan
tial areas of free thought not on
ly for faculty members but also
for students.
“To aH too many people educa
tional institutions are primarily
agencies for inculcating the hab
its and values that will continue
the kind of society which they
find comfortable. Any social sci
entist will recognise that this is
in fact an important function
of any educational institution.”
However, such institutions "are
also places at which innovative
behavior may develop, In which
the accommodations to changing
conditions may be tested, in
which the knowledge which cre
ates new possibilities of action
may be won," Dr. Monypenny
asserts.
It All Began At Age 3 d
m
A Helping Hand For Writers
By W. H. SCARBOROUGH
There are few writers who do
not at some point in their careers
undertake to help young begin
ners toward realization of auth
orship.
Frances Grey Patton is no ex
ception. She has for the past
five years taken time out from
her work as the author of scores
of acute and finely polished short
stores and a brilliantly success
ful novel to teach students at the
University what she has learned
during a writing career which
began when she was three.
Her work with students, while
she feels it a dram and a diver
sion, is to her something young
folk becoming writers need very
much today.
Times have changed to the det
riment of writing. There is less
leisure, more distraction, less
occasion for persons of a literary
bent to find their own Climate,
their own voices. What was once
learned informally must now be
focused artificially. The teach
ing of writing fills the void.
“There is not as mu6h time as
there used to be,” she observed
recently. “Earlier you had more
leisure. The world was not par
ticularly breathing down your
neck, things were not particular
ly organized. There was time
for pepole of similar interests to
get together, to read and discuss
things.” This, she feels, is less
the case today. A University
class in writing provides all this
ready-made.
With changing times a new
kind of student is showing up
wanting to write, too. Rarely
does the flaming young man rife
with discontent find his way into
the modern class. Students tend
to be more intellectually sophis
ticated, they write with more
consciousness of an attempt at
form and lucidity.
“I haven’t seen any symptoms
University
Grad’s Play
Wins Award
A University of North Carolina
graduate and one-time writer on
the Winston-Salem Journal-Sen
tinel, has won. the 1963 Golden
Eagle AwarcUfor a film which
will represent the United States
in international film events.
George C. Stoney’s “Walk With
Me,” was selected by the Com
mittee on International Non-
Theatrical Events (CINE) for
outstanding cinematographic pro
duction. Dr. Howard A. Rusk,
director of the Institute of Phy
sical Medicine and Rehabilitation
has called it “a splendid contri
bution to general education in
the development of positive at
titudes toward persons with dis
abilities.”
The film concerns six physic
ally handicapped people, connect
ed with the Ohio Valley Good
will Industries Rehabilitation
Center in Cincinnati. The two
women and four men reveal their
reactions to their own and their
friends’ physical handicaps as
well as admitting their ambitions
and their pride in what they
have accomplished.
Mr. Stoney is a native of Win
ston-Salem and received his A.B.
from UNC in 1938. He has pub
lished widely in periodicals with
emphasis on articles about the
South.
. ‘Rock Doc’
Is Featured
In Look Mag
“Rock Doc” is the title of an
article featuring a University of
North Carolina Ph.D. graduate
of the Department of Geology in
the November 5 issue of “Look”
magazine.
Dr. Robert 0. Bloomer is the
subject of the picture-story. Dr.
Bloomer is chairman of the De
partment of Geology at St Law
rence University, Canton, N. Y.
“A very special geology pro
fessor” is the way Dr. Bloomer
is described in the article which’
states that his students “enjoy”
him. He has been chairman of
the Geology Department all; St.
Lawrence University for 15
years.
Almost one-half of Dr. Bloom
er’s students at St. Lawemce
University are girls, and several
young female geologists are pic
tured with him studying rocks
in the laboratory and in the field.
A native of New York City, Dr.
Bloomer attended Maury High
-School in Norfolk, Va., from
1928-31. He received B.A. and
M.A. degrees from the Univer
sity of Virginia. His family 'mov
ed to Kinston and Dr. Bloomer
attended UNC from which he re
ceived a Ph.D. degree in geology
In mi.
THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY
of fiery rebellions, attacks on
moves or social reform. The
emphasis is more personal than
sociological,” Mrs. Patton said.
Some of her students periodically
attempt what she terms “to get
a rise by brutally belligerent
writing,” but not often.
To meet this new kind of stu
dent, Mrs. Patton “plays it by
ear,” attempts to keep her
charges writing and trying gent
ly to help them develop the
“habit of self-criticism.” There
are, she knows from her own ex
perience, things that can’t be
done to help her students, pitfalls
to be avoided.
For one, there is a fine dis
tinction between perceiving what
a student is attempting to ex
press in his writing end what
may well be insignificant, paren
thetical allusion. If a teacher
errs in this emphasis, “takes
some small allusion and goes off
on a tangent of your own,” the
student may be led into saying
something he didn’t mean at all.
“You get immersed in your
students’ work,” Mrs. Patton
said. “Your own ego is drained
away.” She had attempted to
avoid this total involvement in
her early teaching, but found it
impossible. “You can’t do it.
All of a sudden you find your
self passionately involved. You
lose yourself. You find that your
own writing is not as important.
Teaching never serves as a stim
ulus for me to write.
“The whole reason for creative
writing classes is that they are
a means of focusing a student’s
effort. I think that now that the
world has changed so much, the
student needs this done for him
more. Classes draw people to
gether people working at the
same thing—and create a climate
in which writing is proper and
right and natural to do.” 1
Mrs. Patton of course became
“Woman” by Ogden Deal of McLeansville
Cowden Books Translated
Dudley J. Cowden, professor
of ecnomic statistics at the Uni
versity, has just had two of his
books published in Spanish trans
lations.
Prof. Cowden, along with F.
£. Croxton, professor of statis
\ PUBLIC HEALTH SEMINAR
Educational problems in medi
cal schools and hospitals and
what’s being done about them in
Chkagp will be outlined here to
morrow by the man who heads
America’s first office of research
in medical education. Dr. George
E. Miller of the Unive r sity of Il
linois College of Medicine will
speak at 3 p.m. in the last of a
series of 1963 student-faculty
seminars at the University School
of Public Health. His topic will
be "Teaching and Learning in the
Professional School”
I
FRANCES GREY PATTON
a writer without the conveni
ences of a formal class. At age
three she wrote tier first poem:
The wind is blowing softly
The Birds are singing aw’lly.
The poem was dictated to her
newspaperman father, who prais
ed it as having the essential
qualities of clarity, brevity and
t«ccuracy. There was no time
BftenFffrd that she didn’t write
for her own amusement at least.
Quite early she was earning
money with tales. Children in
her neighborhood would gather
before school and pay her two
cents each to hear a story. In
high school in Newport News,
Va., she “ran" the school news
paper and won her first literary
prize. Later, at Trinity (now
Duke) she won the Archive’s
prize for best short story of the
tics at Columbia College, New
York, is the author of "Applied
General Statistics” and “Prac
tical Business Statistics,'" both
published by Prentice-Hall.
The 1939 first edition of the
book, “Applied General Statis
tics” has been published by Fon
do de Cultura Economiea, Mexi
co, Buenas Aires. This edition
is the fifth edition of the book
in Spanish and eliminates the
more advanced or specialized
parts of the English language edi
tion. The first Spanish edition of
the book came out in 1948. A
second edition of the book in the
English language came out in
1955. This book has had wide
circulation in numerous langu
ages and also in braille.
The third edition of Prof. Cow
den’s book “Practical Business
Statistics” has been translated
year while a freshman. When
die transferred to Chapel Hill she
wrote plays under Prof. Fred
erick Koch, but stayed largely
out of the old Carolina Mag,
whose contirbutors tended to be
“belligerent and aggressive.”
She did not finish college. She
married and did not, for a long
time, do much more than write
for the personal pleasure of it.
Then in the spring ot 1942, as
the result of a friendship with
Durham poet Helen Bevington,
she began to think seriously of
writing for publication again. In
1944, at the urging of her hus
band, she decided to enter a
short story contest being spon
sored by the Kenyon Review.
She took an old story and be
gan working each morning at
eight and quitting at one in toe
afternoon. This continued for six
weeks. She won the prize and
her story was published in toe
O. Henry Awards for the year.
Even after that, however, she
did not sell any stories for a
couple of years. Then she broke
into columns of the New Yorker
and became a staple of New
Yorker fiction. The rest is his
tory. “Good Morning, Miss
Dove,” her first novel, was pub
lished in 1953 and was followed
the next year by a collection of
her stories.
She is at work on another novel
now, but “I can’t talk about it,”
she said.
Perhaps it is safe to conclude
that it will follow the lead of
“Miss Dove,” of which Mrs. Pat
ton said the form is conventional,
the character distinctly not.
“Most of my stories are about
very conventional people, but
what I am really writing about
is non-conformity. By taking the
conventional setting I wanted to
say that even within the pattern,
one can do as he wishes, essen
tially.”
into Spanish and published by
Editorial Hispano Europea, Bar
celona, Spain. The Spanish edi
tion of this book is two volumes.
Over 1000,000 copies of both
of these books have been s6M.
Prof. Cowden has been a mem
ber of toe UNC faculty since
1935. In 1958, he was an Hon
orary Research Associate in toe
Department of Statistics of Uni
versity College, London. Last
spring, he was named a Senior
Member in the American So
ciety for Quality Control.
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AT FITS POINTS DURHAM. N. C.
UNC Prof Wins
Bollingen Prize
I The Bollingen Prize for the
best translation of poetry into
English has been awarded to Dr.
JWalter Arndt, associate profes
sor of Russian at the University.
Previously awarded to such
noted poets as Ezra Pound, Con
rad Aiken, Marianne Moore and
W. H. Auden, the 1963 award
of $2,500 will be divided between
Dr. Arndt and Richard P. Wil
bur of Wesleyan University.
Dr. Arndt was honored for his
translation of Pushkin’s “Eu
gene Onegin,” a narrative in
poetry, published this year by
E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New
York. Mr. Wilbur received the
award for his translations from
French of Moliere’s “Tartuffe”
and “Le Misanthrope,” publish
ed this year and in 1955, respec
tively, by Harcourt, Brace &
World: .
The Bollingen Foundation was
established by Paul Mellon of
the Andrew Mellon family for
the advancement and preserva
tion of learning in the humani
ties through assistance to the
individual scholar by support of
his research and publications.
The Bollingen Prize was estab
lished by the Foundation in 1949
for “tjie writing of poetry.” It
is an annual award originally
given through the Fellows ‘in
Literature of the Library of
Congress. For some time it has
been administered by the Yale
University Library.
Pushkin’s “Eugene Onegin” is
• concerned with "the afflictions,
1 affections, and fortunes of three
young men—Onegin, toe bitter
lean fob, Lensky, toe tempera
mental minor poet, and Push
kin, their friend—and of three
Urban Development
*
Can Be Controlled
i By NANCY VON LAZAR
Community public officials can
control the direction and inten
sity of urban residential develop
ment in their areas, according
to a team of researchers at the
University here.
F. Stuart Chapin Jr., professor
of city - and regional planning,
and his colleague, Associate
Prof. Shirley F. Weiss, are now
working on a project which may
aid community officials through
put the nation in planning future
uroan residential development in
their locales.
Profs. Chapin and Weiss are
preparing a guideline for devel
opment which is based upon se
lected attraction features of any
residential area, features such
as the presence of sewerage
lines and elementary schools.
These features are all in some
way dependent for their exist
ence in an area upon public
policy decisions. Through their
decisions on certain public poli
cies, for example on sewer
lines, community officials make
it possible for residential devel
opment to take place in areas
where there are sewerage fa
cilities, elementary schools, ma
jor roads, and a variety of other
attractive residential drawing
cards.
The six measurable factors,
dependent upon public policy,
which Profs. Chapin and Weiss
consider important in attracting
new residential development
are: sewer facilities: schools;
major roads; work areas; as
sessed land vAkigs; and sur
rounding buildablerand not in
use.
Profs. Chapin and Weiss are
testing out how combinations of
these six factors have affected
Jend development over a num
ber of years in a large urban
North Carolina “Piedmont Cres
cent" community. Long active in
studying the Piedmont Crescent
—that area of urban clusters
curving eastward from Green
ville, S. C. through North Caro
lina to Raleigh—and its growth
potentials. Profs. Chapin end
Weiss’s present study is an out
growth of their previous research
on the area.
Each of the six influences, or
variables, are studied in rela
tion to a continuing survey of
how the land is actually used.
Profs. Chapin and Weiss and
staff recently completed a 1963
land use survey of toe Greens
boro urban area which is serv
ing as their field laboratory.
From their study, they find
that certain areas are more at
tractive than others for devel
opment in terms of these six in
fluences. The researchers can
even figure out which of the six
influences are most important to
development in a! particular
area of a community at a parti
cular period of time.
t ' *
Wm-'im. M -WHkJ
DR. WALTER ARNDT
young ladies Tatyana, Olga,
and Pushkin’s Muse.” It is set
in Russia in the 1820's, and the
scene shifts from the capital of
the country, to Moscow and
back to St. Petersburg. It was
called a “new art form” in Rus
sia, being the first Russian novel
and the beginning of Russian
Realism.
Dr. Arndt was born in Con
stantinople, Turkey, and educat
)ed around the globe. He re
ceived a Diploma of Economics
and Political Science from Ox
ford University, a B.S. in me
chanical engineering from Rob
ert College in Istanbul, Turkey,
and a Ph.D. in comparative lin
guistics from the University
here. He joined the UNC faculty
in 1957, and has published wide
ly in professional journals..
Using their findings, Profs.
Chapin and Weiss are attempting
to forecast where urban devel
opment might take place. Some
public officials’ policy decisions,
such as the extension of sewer
age facilities, permit greeter
widening of an area for devel
opment. As Prof. Weiss explains
it, “If you want new growth in
cities to be compact, you must
enact certain policies; if you
want new growth to be spread
out, you should take another
course.”
The types of policy decisions
made by the public officials also
affect the future shape of the
community. For example, deci
sion to extend sewer services
widely out in all directions from
the hub of the community might
mean that the community Would
develop in a “sprawl-like” pat
tern. Or, if a decision is made
to put in one or more major
roads connection several hub
centers of the community, the
community probably would de
velop in “corridor-like” fashion
along the roads.
Using the "model” developed
by Profs. Chapin and Weiss,
with the assistance of statistical
consultent Dr. Thomas G. Don
nelly, communities having simi-.
1a r growth characteristics
throughout the nation could
ascertain the potential for ur
ban residential land develop
ment in selected areas and pub
lic officials could recignize how
their policy decisions were lito*-
•ly to affect the pattern for fu
ture land development in their
areas.
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