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Page Two SKYSCRAPER What Qoes On . . . How About Love In Your Life Is There Enough? A BIT OF REMINISCING . . . St. Val entine's Day is past and time marches on, but it has left an aura of love permeating the kaleidoscopic scene of campus life. Generally thought of as a day dedicated to romantic love, the feast of St. Valentine has other implications. We're not imply ing that sweethearts don't deserve a special day just recognizing that they don't need one, that they are just as much in love on Tuesday as they are on Friday, or in August as in February. Indeed it is the rest of the world that needs a day devoted to love. It is not to our beloved only that we should pay court on that day, but to those who irritate us, or to those hugging the circumference of our circle of friendship. Christ loved everyone, Saint Valentine loved everyone, we should love everyone. This is one of easiest ways in which we may imitate Christ. In loving others we make life more pleasant for ourselves, be cause love breeds friendship, and friend ship breeds a deeper love and understand ing. No doubt last Saturday most of us ex changed token gifts of affection with our favorite beaux. But what about our parents, who are ever evincing signs of the unselfish love they have for us ? Did we remember them and temper with love the sting of our oc casional thoughtlessness and self-concern? Were we true to the code of Saint Val entine's Day when we met the milkman, the bus driver, the grocer, the taxi-driver, the tailor, and the 50 or so people with whom we came in contact during the day? If you are beginning to feel like a snarl ing old witch because you haven't a kind word for those around you, DON'T. Just concentrate on loving everyone a little more, and showing that love in great er courtesy, consideration, kindness. Lov ing everyone, 365 days of the year, be cause each is made to the image and like ness of God, is a satisfying and enjoyable way to grow in Grace. Add These To Your Reading List February, replete with George Washing ton, Abraham Lincoln, and Valentine's Day, unites its full 28 days in a campaign for the Catholic press. Urging the laity to support the religious newspapers and per iodicals, Catholic publications remind their readers that they strive to complement the secular papers and not to rival them. Indifference to many of the Catholic papers arises from unfamiliarity. Incor rect opinions gain prestige with constant use. During February, Catholic Press Month, vignettes of the leading Catholic publications may serve to highlight their features. THE NEW WORLD, diocesan weekly newspaper, analyses national and interna tional affairs as they aiffect the people re ligiously and morally. It also describes current Catholic parish activities. EXTENSION, one of the largest Cath olic monthly magazines, offers fiction and feature stories for the average reader and tops these with colorful, unusually amus ing, often edifying, cover illustrations. AMERICA, Jesuit-edited weekly review of current affairs and entertainment, pro vides sound and scholarly studies of con temporary problems, intelligent appraisals of books and movies and plays. CATHOLIC WORLD, high class liter ary magazine, presents short stories, fea ture articles, discussions of current prob lems, and excellent reviews. SIGN, a national monthly, offers excel lent reviews of the current stage and screen productions, as well as popular fiction and feature articles. Its news commentary of world affairs interprets controversial is sues. COMMONWEAL, national weekly, is similar in its news stress to the well-known America. Commonweal, however, is pub lished by the laity and tends to be less conservative in its viewpoint than is Amer ica. CATHOLIC DIGEST, national monthly, offers concise, informative articles for the busy average reader. There are many other excellent Catholic periodicals, slanted to general or special interest groups. Each has a message of value. Certainly every Catholic home needs a diocesan newspaper and several Catholic magazines. Student View . . . We Have a New Foreign Policy And A New Policy-Maker In the center of all the usual rigid pic tures of the Eisenhower cabinet sits a large, almost brooding man who is John Foster Dulles, ex-delegate to the UN, now Sec retary of State. Dulles has become not only the center of news photographs but also the core of much debate. Is he an isolationist, a con ciliator, or merely a reed too shaky to with stand the wildest winds of international pol-' itics? Within six days of his installation in office, Dulles answered these jus tifiable queries by succinctly outlining his foreign policy. Immediate comparisons of Dulles' pro posed policy and that of Acheson are as useless as they are natural. Let us try to imitate Dulles' own bold clarity, viewing his plans by answering these justifiable queries individually. Is he an isolationist ? For those who are familiar with Dulles' work on the United Nations, this question is a foolish one. HowelVcr, to many who fear a revival of isolationism, the Secretary of State an swers that the United States must be at tentive to, if not involved in, foreign af fairs because we have enemies who are plotting our destruction. This neat theory of anti-isolationism is being turned into equally neat practice by Dulles' tour of seven West European na tions. Is he a conciliator? On the con trary, Dulles policy indicates a readi ness to champion U.S. interests even at the cost of treading on French toes, untieing the hands of Chinese Nation alists on Formosa, pouring a little less into the fingers of England and free Europe. It is only logical that a man who will not conciliate with his disunified, befuddled al lies, will not conciliate with his united, far- from-befuddled enemies, the Soviet com munists. Is he a reed shaken by the wind ? In Britain's Foreign Office, the blunt de mands of Dulles' policies are labeled as U.S. bulldozer tactics. France is angered by the threat of less dollar-aid. Speaking to the nation which he serves, Dulles main tains, So far as your government is con cerned you may be very sure that it will not be intimidated, subverted, or con quered. Dulles has mapped-out a bi-partisan for eign policy which could give the United States the strong leadership its interna tional responsibilities demand. He has shown his determination to meet Soviet aggression with effective weapons rather than to play international politics in an all-too-humble spirit and with an all-to-contrite heart. As immediate results, this determin ation has brought criticism from Eng land, applause from Latin America. Even Mr. Dulles cannot calculate what the remote and final results will be. Lenten Limits . . . Pre-Easter Weeks are Value-Filled Thoughts of Lent usually bring forth mental visions of torturing, heroic gestures refusing the many I've-Given-lt-Up-For-Lent items or spending Saturday evenings without movies or dances. This mental pan orama adds up to a preview of six weeks of prevailing gloom. Each year, human finiteness, bowing to its frailties, tends to em phasize and dramatize out of all proportion the hardships of the Len ten season. True, Lent is not a joyful season, yet there never could be an Eas ter Sunday without a Good Friday. The 40 days of Lent are not some thing to be dreaded or neglected; they are the steps that lead to the miraculous discovery of the Empty Tomb, the disappointments of life that lead to eternal sanctification. The early Christians could hardly have experienced the supreme joy and deep realization at the Resurrection had they not spiritually suffered the Passion. We, too, can fully appreciate the greatest Christian triumph only by experiencing in some measure the greatest Christian sorrow. Viewed this way, Lent is not a debit on the liturgical calendar; it is an asset that fills some of the void that is finiteness. Divertissements . . . TV Offers New, Refreshing Shows It's farewell to the I-Hate-Television- club. Charles I-aughton appears in a 15-min- ute program at 10:30 p.m. on Thursday giving readings which are enough to make anybody revert to the classics. However, he doesn't confine himself to the classics. He has transplanted his successful tour of last year to the television screen even the old stool which he sometimes uses as an armrest is there. Sometimes it seems as if he does more acting than reading, but all the time his personality and his excel lent material make his show one of the best on TV. For relief, you might try a Covaks Un limited, channel 4, Tuesdays at 7:30. A complete satire, the program advertises it self as the shortest half-hour on television it only seems long. You will find your self watching satires of TV's commercials, panels, and shows. Like spook stories? At midnight? Try Ken Nordine's new Faces in the Window, on Saturday nights. His readings of Edgar Allan Poe and other thrillers are scary, but if you like the chillers, wwwwwhy wwatch him Jhe k udcraper Entered as Second Class Matter Nov. 30, 1932, at the Post Office of Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879, 1.75 per year. Published semi-monthly from October to May inclusive by the students of Mundelein College, 6363 Sheridan Road, Chicago 40. Vol. XXIII February 16, 1953 No. 8 Co-Editors Marion Whelan, Arlene Gorgol Student View Donna Merwick SAC Speaks Up Catherine Lamb, Patricia O'Brien Divertissements Marjorie Duffy, Sybil Lillie What Goes On Rosemary Burns Sports Mary Alice Winn, Ruth McHugh Skyscrapings Clare Hillyard Jane Roach, Gloria Valentine Assignment Editors Mary Lou Rohlfing, Peggy Winslow Reporters Barbara Brennan, Mary Carey, Dorothy Chiropolos, Rosemary Daly, Jo Anne Hickey, Lois Kolar, Cath erine Lamb, Patricia O'Brien, Grace Per- tell, Jane Purtelle, Dorothy Schneider, Lor etta Casey, Barbara Gaul, Patricia Ander son, Jean Kielty, Joan Budecin, Lorraine Quinn. Da Vinci Film Dates Modern Inventions Did you know that your auto is 400 years old? The idea, anyway? Well, so are planes, and armoured tanks. Leonardo da Vinci, fifteenth century artist, inventor, anatomist, sculptor, architect, and engineer, introduced the ideas behind many mod ern inventions. After a brief sketch of da Vinci's life, his fore-sighted plans for tanks, planes, and hydraulic irrigation systems are gracefully interwoven with his more popu larly known works in the film Leon ardo da Vinci, currently showing at the Ziegfield theatre. Portrayed in technicolor, the artilsti'c works include the Last Supper, the Ma donna of the Rocks, and the Mona Lisa. The film, educational in purpose, evolves into an interesting evening's entertainment. Hollywood Gets An A For Sincerity We attended the movie, Miracle of Fatima, more out of a curiosity than anything else. As Catholics, we felt almost obligated to see in what new way Hollywood had glamorized and misrepresented this latest religious phenomenom. It was a surprise to find ourselves leav ing the theatre both pleased and edified. The glaring advertisements had complete ly belied the reverent handling of this dif ficult theme. We had expected to see the three child ren treading on air, existing on mysticism; and instead found them tumbling about on the green hills, laughing and playing games. They ate bread and cheese, the food of ordinary mortals. One was a tease, one was a crybaby. Emotional sentiment in this film is kept at a minimum. It is portrayed only in the reaction of the masses to the miracle, not in the miracle itself. No one was more surprised than the children and their fam ilies at the vision, or their special mission. They also had a friend, a likable ne'er-do- well, who provides the comic relief when necessary. It is a movie that shows God's love for the common people, the ordinary. We mentally chalked up an A for Hollwood's deft and realistic approach to a most dif ficult subject. It is a challenge success fully met. Week Moments . . Tuesday, Feb. 17, 1 p.m., Senior Class Meeting Freshman-Sophomore Tea Thursday, Friday, Feb. 19, 20, 9-12 a.m. Senior Comprehensives Monday, Feb. 23, Day of Recollection Wednesday, Feb. 25, 7 p.m. Economics Club Discussion Friday, Feb. 27, Red Cross Rloodmobile
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1953-02-16 (2)
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