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. EtIERYTHM HI 8008 TK MM EXMJUWE -The South** largest mi most complete Bo* More" , 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. Give to the Community Chesty UHO CURRENT BEST SELLERS Fiction 1. Tne Group . . , McCarthy 2. The Shoes of the Fish erman . . . West 3. The Living Reed . . . Buck Non-Action 1. J. F. K.: The Man and the Myth . . . Lasky 2. The American Way of Death . . . Milford 3. Rascal . . . North WlllS BOOK STORE 1 Bfc 7rJ2r«»2iu T1 ti t s ajr Page 3-B

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