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Vol. XXXIV Mundelein College, Chicago 26, 111., Nov. 6, 1963 No. 5 Plan Medinah Poetry Night; Quintet Reads Own Works Mundelein To Present Classic Children's Tale Hansel Gretel, an opera by Humperdinck, will be staged in the College Theater Nov. 17 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. This fantasy will be sung in English. It is based on one of Grimm's fairy tales, the libretto by Frau Wette. Tecnically the music is accredited to Richard Wagner, but its gets its individual flavor from its child-like simplicity and from Humperdinck's ability to write melodies that have the warm quality of genuine folk music This folk music appeal is brought Five of America's most noted poets will appear in a history- making combined reading. J. V. Cunningham, Stanley Kunitz, Rob ert Lowell, Karl Shapiro and Rich ard Wilbur will read from their works at 8:30 p.m., Nov. 16 at Me dinah Auditorium, 600 N. Wabash Ave. The annual event is spon sored by Poetry magazine. J. V. Cunningham called by critic Yvor Winters the greatest master of the short poem since Rob ert Herrick has published books of poetry and criticism. A book of poems, The Helms men (1942) was followed by The Judge Is Fury (1947), Doctor Drank (1956) and The Exclu sions of a Rhyme: Selected Poems (1961). As a critic Cunningham has published The Quest ofjthe Opal (1950) and Woe or Won der (1951). A volume of his col lected prose is now also in prepa ration. Merits Awards For Things of This World Richard Wilbur won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the Edna St. Vincent Millay Memorial Prize in 1957. He has also received a Guggenheim Fel lowship, the Prix de Rome, a Ford Foundation Award, the Melville Cane Award and the Boston Arts Festival Award. He published his translation of Moliere's The Misanthrope and Tartuffe. Wilbur is now a pro fessor of English at Wesleyan Uni versity. Karl Shapiro, now Regius profes sor at the Uni versity of Ne braska, has re ceived the Pulit zer Prize for V-Letter and Other Poems (1945), a Gug genheim Fellow ship, was ap pointed Consult ant in Poetry of the Library of Karl Shapiro Congress (1946- 1947) and served as Poetry maga zine's editor from 1950 to 1955. Sophs To Host Fall Cotillion The annual Sophomore Cotillion will be held in the Lakeside Room of the Lake Tower Motel, Nov. 29 from 9-12:30 p.m. Continuous music will be pro vided by the orchestras of Ralph Berger and Al Ford. Bids are 4.50. Noreen Stoeck, social chairman, is chairman of the cotillion. Other committee chairmen are: bids, Julie Wirry and Pat Wall; publicity, Ei leen O'Connor; flowers, Fiorella Mangolini and Tania Peronti; tick ets, Carolyn Leptich; and chaper- ones, Pat Schultz. Hostesses for the evening are Susie Staudt, An drea Vrettos and Kathy McDonnell. Land of Unlikeliness (1944), Lord Weary's Castle (1946), Poems: 1938-1949 (1950), The Mills of the Kavanaughs (1951), Life Studies (1959), Imitations and a free translation of Racine's Phedre (1961) are Robert Lo well's contributions to literature. Wins Pulitzer Prize Lowell has been appointed Con sultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress, Boston Arts Festival Poet, given the Guggenheim Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award for poetry, a grant from the Ford Foundation for a study of opera and the 1962 Bol linger Prize for the best transla tion of poetry into English. At present, the poet is teaching at Harvard. The Pulitzer Prize for his Se lected Poems, 1928-1958 in 1959, the Harriet Monroe Award from the Univer sity of Chicago, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a two-year grant from the Ford Founda tion are reasons for Stanley Kunitz's fame. The intellectual power and deep tragic sense of his poetry can Robert Lowell be noted in his Intellectual Things (1930) and Passport to the War (1944). Kunitz is presently teach ing at Columbia University. Tickets are 1, 2 and 3 and may be purchased in advance from Poetry, 1018 N. State St., Chicago. out in some of the opera's songs Children's Prayer, Susie Little Susie, Brother and Come Dance with Me. Casting for the student produc tion was not confined to members of the music department, but was opened to the entire student body. Double cast for Hansel are Marina Loescher and Mickey Par ent. Gretel will be played by Mary Ellen Scott and Sue Schevers. Dan Sullivan (Northwestern) will play the broom-maker, and Mary Fai'ley and Eileen Carroll will be double cast for the broom-maker's wife. Also taking parts in the opera will be Pat Principe and Edwina Telutki, as the witch; June Carter and Henrietta Garbaririo, as the sandman; and Jeanne Ginnochio and Mary Lou Haberkamp, the dew fairy. Members of the ensemble will make up the chorus of chil dren. Music will be under the direction of Sister Mary Matthew, B.V.M. Miss Ruth Hoffman, a graduate stu dent in opera production at North western University, will stage the opera. Technical director will be Mr. George Petterson. Choreography will be under the direction of Mrs. Edward Ettlinger modern dance instructor, assisted by Gerry Bruchhauser. Mary Far ley will assist on costumes and Mr. Adalbert Hugulet will accompany on the organ. Aid Writers Dr. Frank J. Lusk, sponsor of the Mary Josephine Lusk creative writing awards, has donated an ad ditional 25,000 to the Mundelein Scholarship Fund. This is the largest single contribution to the fund ever received, Sister Mary Ann Ida, B.V.M., president, an nounced this week. The extra income will be used to establish upper division scholar ships for students interested in creative writing who need financial assistance. The annual Lusk creative writ ing award was established in 1933 in memory of Dr. Lusk's mother. UNESCO Convention Studies Unity Gorer Urges End of Nation-States by Mary Etta Talarico (Chicago hosted the Ninth Na tional meeting of the US. Commis sion for UNESCO Oct. 23-26 at the Conrad Hilton Hotel. The Commis sion serves primarily as an advisor to the U.S. government and as a link between UNESCO and the American people. The following stories report some developments of the meeting.) British anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer jolted the pendulum of the North American Community issue to a new position in a speech be fore a plenary session of the U.S. Commission in which he advocated an Atlantic coalescence of societies and cultures rather than an alliance of nation-states. Gorer opposes the aspira tions of proponents of a North American Community whose underlying hope is that this geographical description is or can become a single culture area to foster coherence. He asserts that a North Ameri can cultural community can only be solidly built by allowing for, and emphasizing, the cultural diversity which distinguishes mankind and not by wishing it away and seeking to impose a single cultural pat tern. The anthropologist's blueprint for a successful Atlantic Com munity advocates that: member units would be regional socie ties rather than nation-states; regional societies would be de marcated sociologically rather than administratively (as in countries, states, etc.); local so cieties would be granted great est possible autonomy relegat ing only the military, common currency and a minimum legal basis of the Community at large. Gorer offers several reasons for preferring regional societies. First, a society with its distinctive cul ture is the natural unit in which men have lived. Man conceivably can live without nation-states but it is inconceivable that he could exist without societies. Second, local societies have shown resilience and vitality despite tyranny of dominant na tion-states. Third, nation-states are unstable because of the claim to absolute sovereignty inherent in them. There can never be that dele gation of authority, of sovereignty which must precede the transfor mation of the North Atlantic Com munity into a cultural as well as a geographical expression, Gorer said, while peoples mistrust or con sider each other wrong. The Englishman insists that North Atlantic nations do not con stitute a single culture-area and therefore tend to mistrust the other nations which display variant cul tures. He distinguishes the three cultures by their versions of Christianity Orthodox socie ties, Catholic societies and Protestant societies and designates them as the Man in Truth, the Man in the Right and the Moral Individual ac cording to the approach of each to ideal behavior. Because they are inarticulately held, these three different ideals of upright behavior, and the type of society and institutions which will advance them, would seem to be a major cause for the mutual incom prehension and intolerance within the geographical area which might constitute a North Atlantic Com munity, Gorer said. The Man in Truth depends on (Continued on Page 4) Fromm Probes Consciousness) Sees Narcissism as Nationalism by Mary Ellen Scott Dr. Erich Fromm, author of Escape From Freedom, Sigmund Freud's Mission and The Art of Loving was in Chicago recently to speak at a plenary session of the Ninth National Conference of the U.S. Committee for UNESCO. Later, Fromm spoke at Westmunster House which is affiliated with Presbyterian St. Luke's Hospital. Fromm speaks to an audience as though he were talking over a cup of coffee. Both of his speeches had similarity in philosophy if not in exact con tent. At Westmunster House on Friday, Oct. 25, Fromm spoke of the conscious and unconscious mind. He said that the differences in human beings lie in the social conscious and that similarity in men lies in the unconscious. To exemplify this difference, he chose the social conscious in language. The Japanese have expressed ecstasy in beholding dew on a rose in hun dreds of poems and yet if an American man came home and tried to ex plain to his wife how he felt when he saw dew on a rose she'd think he was ill. However, if a movie that got rave notices from reviewers con cerned dew on a rose, that same wife might be enthralled about the rose. Fromm, at UNESCO, spoke on narcissism as nationalism and here too, he gave an example of the danger of social consciousness. For here a people considered their differences and gloried in them. His solution was: If the individual can feel a narcissistic pride in the human race as such and in his being a part of it, the dangers of narcissistic pathology will be smaller than if different nations, races, religions and political idealogies offer themselves as idols and objects for individual narcissism. In this talk he stressed greater relatedness but in his talk to an audience primarily interested in psychology he spoke of relations between man and nature, doctor and patient and even Adolph Eichmann and Mar tin Buber, for in the world of the conscious, Fromm maintains, there is an Eichmann even in the mind of Buber. In this progressive society Fromm believes there can be a realization of the Eichmann and a development of man's truly humanistic potential. To his audience at Westmunster Erich Fromm was all hope, like an Easter sermon. He quoted Dr. Mueller as saying he thought 20th century man was the missing link for future man and that someday a superman would look back upon man as a primitive, half-animal man. However, with the concrete problem of world unity placed before him, he expressed a concern for methods by concluding that organizations like the Common Market may only unify a continent into a European Bloc which would vie narcissistically with other unified continents. Hey, Look Us Over... Censorship U.S. Student Editors Meet, Discuss Censorship. (Page 2) Theology Special Feature on Reverend David M. Stanley, S.J. (Page 5) Cigarettes College Papers Ban Cigarette Ads. (Page 6) Tests Students Question Mundelein Testing Methods, Editorial. (Page 2)
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