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Page Two THE SKYSCRAPER January 17,1962 Stop Applying 'North of Border' Norms to 'South of Border' Flock Alice in Wonderland was both too big and too small for her own good. The lack of proportion in Lewis Carroll's pinafored creation is not unlike the American Catho lic's view of his downstairs neighbor, Latin America. Among the basic differences not under stood by the North America b is the pre- Trent mentality of the Spanish-American Catholic who has not conformed his sub jective approach to life to the demands of economic development. Truth challenges the Yankee mind to self-assertion; the Latin temperament produces an inner-directed so ciety whose ideology is bound up in a tra dition of following-the-leader a man re garded as a prophet rather than a com petent politician. Time, efficiency and a clean shave are important to U.S. citizens, they are inci dental to the Latin. Under the duress of present economic and social conditions, the presentation of Marxist ideology has a na tural inroad among Latin Americans. Where the North American tends to be a cash register Catholic, he is likely to view the lax Spanish-American with a critical eye. He must not realize that 70 million Spanish-speaking Americans are illiterate, that the Guatamalan mestizo shares a priest with 10,800 parishioners and that less than 60 per cent of all Latins attend primary Actresses Perform Before Four Walls What's a show without an audi ence? Nothing Recent productions including The Diary of Anne Frank, Arsenic and Old Lace, Royal Gambit and Our Town testify to the excel lent of +rip drama tradition at Mun delein. The attendance tradition presents another picture. Communication be tween actor and audience can make or break a performance. This seems a 50-50 proposition. Only thing is, whatever the drama students make, the rest of the students break by non- attendance. After about five weeks of prepara tion and an average total of 100 man hours per person, the actresses and stagehands receive no reward for a job well done. The dates of the plays are listed in the college calendar three times a year on Sunday and Monday night at 7:30. Drama students publicize the plays throughout the school. The depart ment goes so far as to offer 25 per cent of the 1 admission to the class treasury of the ticket buyer. Anyone who has ever attended a Mundelein production will attest to an evening well spent. Various teach ers, after seeing a Sunday night per formance, will take class time to en courage attendance on Monday. Yet, the loneliness of the auditorium on the last night surpasses the first. On Tuesday numerous classmates flock around the drama students to congratulate them. How dishearten ing when the actress says I'm so glad you enjoyed the show and the con- gratulator replies, Oh, I didn't see it, but I heard it was tremendous. February 11 and 12 mark the next play, Many Moods by James Thurber. Will Mundelein finally break tradition or let real talent continue going to waste ? Mary Jo Murray school. Despite laxity and/or superstition in religious practices, charity is alive among these peoples. Family life is revered. Racial prejudice is negibilible. Under the Alliance for Progress pro posal the Kennedy administration seeks to assist the Latin as a Latin not a re modelled American. In spite of this move ment, the volunteer programs and papal re quest for 10 per cent of all religious com munities, the situation of the Church in Latin America is acute. Social justice is the answer. The Church faces the task of proving that the Latin American can be both Latin and Catholic and that the Church and freedom are not irreconcilable opposites. Spanish-Americans need 1962 Catholi cism, economy, education. And they need an understanding from their northeri. neighbors that is more than a burst of stu dent enthusiasm. Sister Mary St. Alan, B.V.M. '63 Blou 1-4 mtxg- Slot. UA15 Agony and Ecstasy Gigantic Biography Studies Michelangelo by Mary I u Franzman It is not too often that a biographical novel tops the nation's best-seller lists for months on end, but for Irving Stone, author of The Agony and the Ecstasy, occupation of the number one place is not a new ex perience. The tremendous success of Lust for Life. the story of Vincent Van Gogh, set a prece dent for works concerning men of artistic temperament, and his new novel of Michel angelo, a giant of all arts is a truly sweep ing achievement. The story of the artist is traced upon the background of Renaissance Italy, with par ticular emphasis upon the cities of Florence penetrating and analytic. Through an in tense search of the mind and heart of the artist, the author brings out the feelings and reflections of Michelangelo in every im portant aspect of his creativity. This explanation of the artist's creative sensitivity may be regarded either as true fictional insight or mere guesswork on Stone's part, but he explains its presence thus: Art has a magic quality: the more minds that digest it, the longer it lives on. But the commentary becomes tiresome at times, leaving the reader to wish that the art works could speak for themselves. Real heights are reached, however, when and Rome, where Michelangelo''; colorfuj a sensitive account, of the emotions of.the contemporaries, the artists, scholars, polici- cal and religious leaders of the time, among them DaVinci, Raphael, the Plato academy, the Medici family and seven occupants of the Papal Chair. The years of his flowering genius bring forth such works as the statues of David, Moses and the Pieta, the frescoes of the Vatican chambers and the Sistine Chapel, and the superb architecture of the dome of St. Peter's. Mr. Stone's treatment of his subject is Entertainment Takes International Flavor by Mary Ann Eiler MUSIC David Bar-lllan, pianist, Orchestra Hall, Feb. 4, 3:30 p.m., 2- f gt;. Ivan Davis, Grand Prize Winner of First Franz Liszt Competition, Orchestra Hall, Feb. 11, 3:30 p.m., 2- 5. Arthur Fiedler and Boston Pops Tour Or chestra, Feb. 24, Opera House, 2.50- 5.50. Vienna Choir Boys, Orchestra Hall, Jan. 28, 2- 5. The Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Orchestra Hall, Feb. 25, ?2- 5. DANCE Jose Greco and His Company of Spanish Dancers, Opera House, Jan. 28, 2- 5. MOVIES Mexico, Orchestra Hall, Feb. 12. DRAMA Timon of Athens, Feb. 9, 10, 11, University of Chicago Theater, 8:30 p.m., 5706 S. University Ave. Advise and Consent with Farley Granger and Chester Morris, Blackstone, Beg., Jan. 30. An Evening with Charles Laughton, Good man, Jan. 31 through Feb. 3. LECTURES Robert C. Weaver, The Future of the American City, Friday, Feb 23, Morrison Hotel, Terrace Casino, 8 p.m., 1.50. Gwendolyn Brooks, Pulitzer Prize Poetess, Lake Forest College, Jan. 19, 8 p.m. painter and sculptor are related along with a fascinating description of several artistic techniques involved in the production of a work. But the over-all view leaves one unsatis fied as to the character of Michelangelo who does not seem vital and real to the reader, but rather remains a figure whose back is shaped to his burden. The novel is slow to capture the reader's unflagging attention. After the first two chapters, however, the pace quickens and the book becomes harder to put aside. Most probably, the childish dialogue and the ar tificiality of the inserted Italian transla tions intended to flavor the work are re sponsible for this defect. Stone is to be highly commended for his sincere efforts and adequate accomplish ments of a goal which involved portraying the seasons of a great man's long, involved life. Like the author, the reader must pon der the gigantic task thus: Is the harvest ing of autumn less important than the seed ing of spring? Each without the other is meaningless. Jhe gt;hii u cruper Vol. XXXII Jan. 17, 1962 No. 6 All-American All-Catholic The Skyncrapcr is published semi-monthly, October to May inclusive, except during vacations and semes ter examinations by the students of Mundelein College, 63G3 Sheridan Rd., Chicago 40. III. Subscrip tion rales are 2 per year. Entered as second-class matter. Nov. 30, 1932, at the U.S. Post Office. Chicago, III., under the act of March 3. 1897. The. Sl:u.icra,.er is a member of the Associated Collegiate Press and the Catholic School Press As sociation. Editor in Chief Virginia Piecuch Managing Editor Joanne Twomey News. Editor Barbara Brzezinski Assistant Diane Arturi Editorial Editor Sheila Smith Assistant Maxine Tyma Feature Editor Mary Jo Murray Assistants Pat Krochmal. Maureen Quane Club Editor Charlaine Novotny Sports EdHor Judy Kilobassa Artist Pete Picture Editor Rae Paul Photographer Carol I.isowski Advertising Manager Phyllis Luczak Assistant Eileen Schaefer Director Held Own In Women's World Too often in the school situation, good friends leave during the sum mer without the student body being able to express their thanks and best wishes for future continued success. Therefore we are glad to have the op portunity to comment on the depart ure of Leo Flanagan, Mundelein's di rector ot public relations. The role of public relations director has often been sullied with the term press agent. Mr. Flanagan has done much to make Mundelein better known throughout the community. This prestige has aided the college fi nancially and made the student body proud of being Mundelein women. Being one of the few males in a women's college never proved a seri ous handicap to his abilities. He handled with ease and facility the col lege faculty, brains and queens. We wish him luck in his new posi tion with Community Service. We also hope that he will stay close to Mundelein and her students. Joanne Twomey Sounding Board To the Students, Faculty and Staff: A man with an incurable disease once told 80,000 people in New York's Yankee Stadium that he considered himself to be the luckiest man on the face of this earth. Perhaps, on that day Lou Gehrig was the luckiest man on earth, but on Sept. 14, 1959, I was. That was the day I began to work at Mundelein and came to know many of you. During my two and one-half years at '::' c c:r. I bc'.:,:vc *h l Mjr fri rd ' '-' ? '' your understanding helped me to become a better person. In gratitude for your kindness and your help I can offer you only a sincere thank you and a promise that my February Masses and Communions will be offered for your intentions. Leo W. Flanagan Dear Editor, With the new emphasis on the apostolate in the Church, students have become in creasingly aware of the part they they have to play in the future of the Church's de velopment. Realizing that the Mass is the center of liturgical worship, we are actively concerned with the difficulty of those who desire to attend daily Mass. (Continued on Page 4) Laotian Royal Failure, Kennedy UN Proposal Shapes World News by Diane Arturi LAOS The meeting of the three rival princes of Laos in the capital city of Vien tiane was to have formed a new, neutral government for the embattled country. Un fortunately, they formed nothing and set tled less. Pro-Western Prince Roun Oum told the press that the meeting of the three princes was finished and that all past agree ments were also outdated and finished. FRANCE President Charles de Gaulle promises that within a year Algeria will be an independent and sovereign state. He has already recalled two divisions of the French armed forces from the strife-torn colony and two more are scheduled to leave this month. But de Gaulle's promises of peace have only provoked bitter riots. UNITED NATIONS President Ken nedy recommended that the U.S. purchase half the U.N.'s 200,000,000 bond issue to keep it solvent. EGYPT After Syria's break-away last September, the three year old United Arab States consisted of only two members, Egypt and tiny Yemen. Nassar has now ousted Yemen with promises of new glories for Arab socialism.
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