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Page Two THE SKYSCRAPER Oct. 28,1964 tie simper ffl i 111 L UIIIUUI1IIILI) will grip current issues and events and *l hold them before the campus in order that members of the Mundelein community may sense and direct history rather than bob in its wake. Staff Backs LBJ On Election Day The government which governs least is no longer the government which governs best. Only a government which is militarily strong yet compassionate in providing for the prac tical needs of its citizens can endure today. There is no in consistency, Lyndon B. Johnson said in his budget message to Congress for the fiscal year 1965, in being prudent and frugal, in being alert and strong and in being sensitive and sympathetic to the unfulfilled needs of the people. In this presidential election, the Republican candidate claims to offer the American people a choice, not an echo. This is perhaps the most accurate statement he has made dur ing the campaign. He does indeed offer a choice it is the choice between yesterday and tomorrow, between regression and progress, between a man of meaningless words and a man of measurable deeds. Goldwater Vetoes Key Bills If the votes Senator Barry Goldwater cast during his 12 years in the United States Senate had been decisive in deter mining American domestic and foreign policy in this century, there would be no workable social security program, no civil rights bill, no foreign aid, no space agency programs, no atomic energy commission, no Arms Control and Disarmament agency, no department of agriculture, no tax cut, no health care pro gram for the elderly and no union shops. All these things the American people take for granted, Senator Goldwater has vetoed under the guise of protecting individual freedom. What, according to Senator Goldwater, is individual free dom? Is an individual more free when he no longer has any purchasing power because his working days are over? Is a man free when he cannot enter a shop or a restaurant or a voting booth because his skin is black? Is he free when he can receive only a second-rate education or no education at all because he has no money ? Is the farmer more free when his silos are filled with unsaleable grain because government re fused to subsidize him for fields which should have lay fallow? The alternative to this philosophy of political negativ ism is President Johnson's program for the great society. President Johnson believes that government should play an important role in the life of every American, not to restrict his acts but to give him the opportunity to act. He does not, as Senator Goldwater does, fear Washington and centralized government more than Moscow. President Johnson believes that partnership is the path to the future. For today progress does not come from being anti-business or anti-labor, anti-producer or anti-consumer. More and more, Americans are realizing that programs which do fairly benefit one group, benefit all. As long as I am Presi dent, this government will not set one group against another . . . this is what I mean when I choose to be President of all the people. Follows Lead to Great Society During the 11 months he has held the office of President, Lyndon Johnson has led the nation from the shock of Presi dent Kennedy's assassination into the hope of the great so ciety. Congress has responded to his leadership with a re markable record of constructive legislation including a tax cut, a revitalized foreign aid bill and the Civil Rights Act. In less than a year he has allayed the traditional dismay with which business usually regards a Democratic administration, settled a major railroad dispute which threatened to paralyze the nation and twice turned back Chinese Communist aggres sion in the Viet Namese straits. In his choice of an outstanding liberal thinker, Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota, as his running mate, President Johnson has selected a man with the knowledge and the skill to assume the duties of the presidency should that need ever arise. Senator Humphrey is an orator of ready wit and clear thinking whose broad understanding of America and her role in the world today can readily rebut the wild charges of conservative flag-wavers who would reduce our foreign policy to total victory or total defeat. It is in light of these considerations that the Skyscraper supports the candidacy of Lyndon B. Johnson for the Presi dency of the United States. Sylvia Hajek n lt;vh lt;*f ) * Democratic Pattern Roaof Players Perform Uninspirational lKiller' by Pat Porwicz More than five years ago, Eugene Ionesco, the avant garde play wright, commented: I am trying to rehabilitate the middleclass. They are the only ones left with a conscience. The Theater On-the- Road attempted to revitalize lones co's dream with their competent but uninspired interpretation of The Killer. David Simon as Berenger, a naive soul who sanctions such middleclass values as morality, public responsibility and friend ship, is one of the few perform ers who seems to have actually read the play. He is without equal in his portrayal of lones co's concept of the true intel lectual. Less a cog in the ma chine of social conformity, Ber enger recognizes evil and fights against being infected by it. Si mon, both amusing and pa thetic, mesmerizes his audience with an almost poetic interpre tation of the play. His soliloquy in the final act is emotionally draining and propells the audi ence into an euphoric state. While Simon struggles to evoke a sharply defined austerity in the first act, he is almost squelched by the bungling William Hillard as the architect. Hillard completely ne-' gates the dehumanized characteri zation which his role demands with his corpulent, Gleason-like appear ance. As the architect patiently listens to Berenger expound on the beauties of the radiant city one apprehensively awaits Hillard's look out for those swing n doors Ionesco terms his play a tragic comedy in which Berenger, the lit tle man, learns of the presence of a killer while visiting a radiant city with its architect. However, as the protagonist then attempts to gather evidence and spur the po lice on to the murderer's capture, the entire esoterical merits of the play are lost in a kind of Punch and Judy exhibition. This buffoonery becomes paramount in the first scenes of the third act as the pup pets cudgel each other with brown leather brief cases. Aside from Simon, only two others exert any laudable im pact on the audience or the play Karlis Ozols and Bain Boehlke. As the luring, dull- witted owner of the Bistro, Ozols is quite impressive and one is uncomfortably aware of a sense of the absurd as he blindly sneers at the audience. It is as a drunk in top hat and tails that Bain Boehlke forcefully depicts the aristocrat-hero who dares to think against history and react against the times. Although there are interpreta- tional inadequacies, they are not damaging enough to inhibit lones co's message. The competency is self evident but the inspiration is scarce. Ciardi Explores Depth of Poetry by Mary Ellen Scott It's a mistake to die in a pud dle when we have the whole ocean, said John Ciardi Oct. 13, in his talk at North Park College. A man needs poetry to die decently. Ciardi, poetry editor of Satur day Review, translator of Dante's Purgatorio and Inferno and author of several books of poetry, spoke on What Good is a Poem? Cites Purpose A poet's purpose is to communi cate a deeply felt state of being. To do this he must have the wis dom that went out of Shake speare's eyes when he died. For wisdom a man must take Dante's indirect route of experience through purgatory and hell. Ciardi said he seemed to live his life in parentheses so he knew something of indirection. One of his parentheses in his talk consisted of calling his children malfunctioning bits of plumbing and 12 going on 17. But it wasn't a pointless parenthesis because he was discussing children's down they forgot as up they grew ap preciation of poetry. He was sure children didn't need What Good is a Poem explained to them when they were in the third grade. Poetry is what evapo rates in translation. It can't be analyzed and its meaning known exactly, but it's truth and impor tance can be sensed. Ciardi said young children understand this but by high school, especially in the case of boys, they're dead in the head. Emphasizes Selection Ciardi ended his talk with an admonition directed to educators and readings of examples of what he thinks are good poems. He said shrewdness must be employed in selecting good literature, both prose and poetry, for the young, so that the 16-year-old American boy won't ask Is poetry all right? I wandered lonely as a cloud by Wordsworth and I stood tip-toe on a little hill by Keats are defi nitely not the kind of poetry to ini tiate an enthusiastic response from young minds. For all Silas Marner victims, Ciardi said the high school that demanded its reading should distribute fossils in place of di plomas. With an almost Richard Burton technique, Ciardi read poetry. He started with The Traveler's Curse After Misdirection by Robert Graves for rhythmic effect. Then he read some of his own poems for the fun of it : a sweet one about birds singing softer as they grow larger; a nasty one about fisherman smelling rotten; a wild one about Faustus falling because of dull neighbors; and his own elegy envisioning his death in a B29 during World War II. ZJke hudcraper Vol. XXXV October 28, 1964 No. 2 Newspaper of Distinction The Skyscraper is published semi-monthly, September to May inclusive except during exam and vacation periods, by the students of Mundelein College, 6363 Sheridan Rd., Chicago, III.. 60626. Subscription rate is 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 Skyscraper is a member of the Associated Collegiate Press and the Catholic School Press Association. Letters to the editor must be signed. The Skyscraper reserves the right to cut letters in case of limited space. Editor in Chief .. Mary Etta Talarico Associate Editor ,- Rae Paul Feature Editor Sylvia Hajek Make-up Caryl Jean Cinelll. Barbara Kubicz, Bobbie Bohan Columnist ,. Barbara Mounsey Staff - Jean Durall. Mary Lynch. Diane Sargol. Mnry Ellen Scott. Patricia Toussaint. Nancy Vandenberg. Eileen Carroll, Barbara Boch, Joyce Griffin. Eileen Jack, Kathy Wright, Evelyn Chambers Photographers Betsy Braunlin, Aldine Favaro, Diane Sargol 4
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