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Page Two THE SKYSCRAPER April 10,1963 Easter Affirms Man's Worth; 'Dust...Thou Art Splendor' 'Musical Choirs Rep/ace Boseboll As Notionol Postime Strikes Out The one, two, three strikes you're out symbol of the baseball world is rapidly yield ing its position to the almighty dollar sign, camouflaged by the word progress. But how many of the thousands and thou sands of fans who jammed the stadiums yesterday for the opening day of the 1963 baseball season realize what is happening to their beloved game? The national pastime is becoming a mod ern stockmarket where googly-eyed owners sit behind the scenes watching the rise and fall of player popularity. Age and ability mean nothing in this business; when popu larity drops, the player is dumped while he still has trade potential. Who can forget the bright young '59 pen nant winners whom Bill Veeck scattered around the league for a handful of flashy old box-office attractions? Phil Wrigley, too, has done his part to keep the Cub fans amused at the expense of his ball club. Last year's rendition of musical chairs swung to the tune of a weekly selection of a new head coach, failing to put his Cubs in the running, though it did, like Veeck's big stars create publicity. But unfortunately, when the music stopped, Wrigley didn't have the sense to get off as Veeck did in '60. This new progress is not merely a do mestic policy; it has spread throughout the leagues causing the installation of two All- Star games instead of the traditional one, an increase of two teams in each league and seven additional games per year. The renovations fail not only to intensify the interest of the fans, but they limit the playing age and productivity of the indi vidual players. Nevertheless, additional games and teams Dk. St ku cruper 'J Vol. XXXIII April 10, 1963 No. 12 All-Catholic The Skyscraper is published semimonthly, October to May inclusive, except (taring vacations and semester examinations by the students of Mundelein College. 63li3 Sheridan Rd.. Chicago 26, III. Subscription rate is 2 per year. Kntered as sccond-clnss matter Nov. 30. 1932. at the U.S. Post Office. Chicago. III., under the act of March 3. 1897. The Skyxcraiier is a member of the Associated Collegiate Press and the Catholic School Press As sociation. Editor in Chief Barbara Brzezinski Managing Editor Mary Jo Murray News Editor Mary Etta Talarico Assistant Maureen Racine Editorial Editor Eileen Schaefer Feature Editor Janice Jearas Layout Editors Pat Krochmal. Dianne Arturi Columnist Mary Anne Pope Photographers . Rae Paul, Elynore Deutsch Artist Diane Mazza Staff Assistants Kathleen Sweeney, Joanne Infantino. Louise Nunziato, Tina DeRosa, Maxine Tyma. Molly Palen. Mary Pat Schiffer. Sister Mary Bernita, B.V.M., Sister Mary St. Eunice. B.V.M.. Sister Mary St. Alan, B.V.M., Barbara Kubicz, Laurie Bremner draw more fans and the dollar wins again as baseball rolls on like any other business. Business or no business, Chicago White Sox fans needn't fly their pennants at half mast this year, for the Southsiders seem to be leading the market in potentiality. New young hopefuls, fortified by the gains of the winter Baltimore Oriole trade, constitute what should be a solid young team at all positions. As for the Cubs rumors have it that Mr. Wrigley has chosen a manager who could just possibly last the season, though this writer finds it hard to believe that the owner and his musical chair gang will be able to resist the bossa nova. Rae Paul More of Seymour Remember man that thou art dust and into dust thou shalt return. It is the rare Christian who is able to sing the Exultet on Holy Saturday evening with assurance that he has done well with his 40-day private dust collection. Effort? Yes, but no spec tacular results. Almost everyone is convinced of his own lack of worth and insignificance in the face of realities bigger than himself. Easter is the greatest of all Christian realities, so it is often true that one cowers at the thought of Eas ter and is only too willing to fade into the congregation by considering him self one of the millions and thousands of saved souls. Call Easter Myth Some historians have eliminated the Resurrection from accounts of Christ's life and others have explained it as an imaginary experience of His closest followers a psychological defense process a natural means of overcoming despair. More currently, advertising tech nique has made seeing is believing the measurement for validity even in human affairs. The Resurrection would, therefore, have no existence, no meaning for those who live by sight. They are safe and thus sure of their own worth and significance because it is measureable. The real meaning of Easter is diffi cult for those who think young. It is the realization that Christ's whole existence, preceding and including the Resurrection, demands one thing: faith. This means measuring the God-Man by the standards He Him self set. It means understanding that He did not come solely to give man a lift, but to free him from his shac kling insignificance, his real lack of worth. Sight vs. Faith Faith as opposed to sight admits that Christ's Passion, Death and Resurrection occurred on behalf of men; and more, that He would have done it for a man. Here the sight method argues: There is no such thing as a return to life of one who has died; therefore the Resurrection and belief in Easter is a myth, the method of faith says: Christ rose again; therefore resurrec tion is possible and His Resurrection is the foundation of the true world and of the great dignity and personal worth of each man. There is then, for the man of faith, a quiet reversal of Ash Wednesday's Remember man ... on Easter Dust, thou art splendor. Salinger's Latest Probes Character by Kathie Montesano In Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenter, Salinger pre sents, in two short stories, the adventures and misadventures of the unorthodox Glass family. While the two youngest members were the principal characters in Franny and Zooey, Seymour Glass, as seen through the eyes of his brother Buddy, is the center of interest in Salinger's most recent book. The title story is Buddy's account of his unusual brother's unusual wedding day. The attitudes of other characters toward Seymour and his eccentricities, contrasted with Buddy's point of view, ac counts for the wry humor and subtle pathos in this story. In the second story, Seymour, an Introduction, Buddy (who is obviously Salinger himself) presents a rambling char acter study of Seymour. This story gradually becomes an exas peration vehicle for Salinger's philosophical views; it is a story in name only. It seems that Salinger finds an inexhaustible source of material in the character of Sej.nour; it is doubtful that the reader will share his opinion, especially if Salinger con tinues to expound upon his favorite character as he has proposed in this book (this is just an introduction to the full character portrayal of Seymour ). Soap Replaces Rice Raise high the roof beam, carpenters. Like Ares come the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man. Boo Boo, the oldest girl in the Glass family, inscribed this wedding message for Seymour in soap on the medicine cabinet mirror in the apart ment which she or Buddy and Seymour occupied in New York during the war years when most of the Glass family were in the armed services. To outsiders, Seymour bears little resemblance to the noble Ares; he left his bride standing at the altar, which slightly em barrassed her and his brother Buddy. Seymour, who was too keyed up to come to the church, waited for Muriel at her home and they quietly eloped. But this outcome is unknown to the wedding guests and to Buddy, who unhappily accompanies the bride's relatives to the reception. Buddy defends the accusations voiced mainly by the Matron of Honor by declaring that no one had ever seen Seymour for what he really was. A poet, for God's sake. When Buddy later reads passages in Seymour's diary concerning his love for Muriel, Seymour's poetic and eccentru nature is apparent. Seymour regarded his wedding day as a new birth, a sacred, sacred day. Muriel's mother, who was interested in psychoanalysis, care fully diagnosed her future son-in-law as a latent homosexual afraid of marriage and a schizoid personality who did not relate to people as he should. Simple, warmhearted Muriel felt alienated from Seymour when his intelligence caused him to desecrate her naive observations. Since the reader knows that Seymour commits suicide six years later, his frustration in know ing that Muriel does not share his extreme state of bliss is par ticularly pathetic and significant. Reality Blinds Non-conformist In the second story, the author (Buddy, alias Salinger) warns his readers that the subject matter (his deceased brother Seymour) renders brevity and objectivity impossible. As in the first story, Buddy affirms that his brother was a true poet, or artist-seer, who was mainly dazzled to death by his own scru ples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own sacred human con science. He was all real things to his brothers and sisters: their one full poet, mystic and unbalanced type. Seymour tallied with the classical conception of a God-knower and ad vocated a spirit of detachment and indifference in all things (even in shooting marbles). Although Buddy concentrates on Seymour's childhood, it seems apparent that the philosophy which guided Seymour's youthful deeds would also characterize his adult behavior. Salinger makes an interesting comment concerning his literary characters, especially Holden Caulfield (whom Salinger denies is patterned after Seymour): all his characters have a rather common flair for rushing in where most damned fools fear to tread, and are pursued by an Entity. Seymour's physical appearance and spectacular lack of proficiency at sports is amusingly presented, although the author continually belabors the difficulty of keeping to a set norm of portrayal. Philosophy Rules Fiction Although Salinger's gift for biting humor and tender pathos, which he aptly displayed in Catcher in the Rye, can be glimpsed in this latest book, his tendency to philosophize, which could be readily observed in Franny and Zooey, is the predominant aspect in his second story. He admitted it was a thesaurus of undetached prefatory remarks about (Seymour). It is signifi cant that Buddy, after expressing his admiring love for his poetic brother, admits that he could never adequately compete with Seymour and he suddenly regards the teaching which he for merly minimized as the most important thing in his life.
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