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KOREA
RSDAY, MAY 21, 1959
NIGHT EDITOR: CHARLES KOZOLL
THE MUSICAL YEAR
Ann Arbor Receives
Varied Bill of Fare
IT WAS THE best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the gayest
of times, it was the grimmest of times. It was in three-four time, it
was in six-eight time. It was May Festival 1959, culmination of a year of
curious musical entertainment out of Choral Union, by George.
According to a note at the bitter end of May Festival's program, 208
compositions by 105 composers were heard in Hill Auditorium this year,
with 108 "first presentations." On the surface, this seems to be an
impressive accumulation. But looking beyond the respectable amount of
padding (Robert Shaw encores, the Stars and Stripes, Jerome Hines
gargling before the intermission) it would appear that a fairly wicked
cross-section of music has been dropped into our laps, along with a fat
lady or two and a box full of mutton.
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SEASON were the Chicago Symphony,
violinists Stern and Milstein, pianist Tchaikovsky, with Robert Shaw's
Chorale, Tebaldi's larynx, and Fiedler's Pops appealing to their own
select groups.
It is probably pointless to grumble about the sad state the Boston
Symphony got itself into for its tour, or the sad state the Pittsburgh
group can't seem to get out of; instead one might be content to have
heard the National Symphony Orchestras of both Mexico and the United
Urban Renewal:
Ill Understood
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AS ONE RINGS doorbells in the Urban Re-
newal area, he is struck most of all by the
residents' ignorance of the plan. Some are
opposed to it and know something about it,
and some are for it and know something too.
Still, one's impression is that most of them
don't really know much about it.
Mrs. LaVaughn Wilson, for instance, said she
"really didn't know too much" about the plan.
Tom Sheppeard said he didn't know enough to
have a definite opinion. In some of these cases,
of course, unwillingness to comment probably
was a factor, based on caution about being
quoted in The Daily and, as one lady said about
herself, on the desire not to antagonize neigh-
bors. A door-to-door survey would probably
turn up more no-comment-makers than Sun-
day's Daily article, based about talks with
leaders, implies.
Even those who did speak out often didn't
know the plan really well. Some did, of course,
but others had mistaken ideas. Margaret James,
who doesn't read newspapers, thought Lydia
Newman would lose her house and her lot
permanently. In fact, however, she would have
an option to buy her lot back cleared and could
then build a new house on it. One couple in
'Oh Maja'
APOST OFFICE hearing examiner recently
. ruled that advertising postcards showing
Goya's painting, "The Naked Maja," (pronoun-
ced "my-a") are obscene and non-mailable.
He charged that the postcard "cannot be
considered a masterpiece. In sum, it is simply
a color picture of a nude woman."
Occasionally nudity is found in this country,
he continued, possibly reflecting on several
known camps. But, he added, "generally speak-
ing, we live in a clothed civilization" and so
a nude woman would strike the average person
as indecent.
If necessary, the examiner's opinion can be
appealed to the courts. In the meantime, his
head should undergo a process similar to his
title.~.
The postcards were mailed by a movie firm
to promote a movie based on Goya's life. On
one side was a brief plug for the film, on the
other, the naked woman in all her glory.
And this is obscenity?
Oh me, oh maja.
-NORMA SUE WOLFE
Congress and
HE SENATE Commerce Committee, after a
close vote, recently confirmed President
Eisenhower's appointment of Lewis Strauss to
the Secretaryship of the Department of Com-
merce. In keeping with the Senate's recently
increased sense of responsibility over Presiden-
tial appointments-which emerged most notably
with the discussion surrounding Mrs. Luce's
projected selection as Ambassador to' Brazil-
debate on Strauss's qualifications was long and
loud. Unlike Mrs. Luce, at the moment Strauss
seems cotnent to withhold any potential dam-
aging comment on his recent "ordeal."
As Mrs. Luce, Strauss has the curiously
"Nixonesque" quality of arousing violent feel-
ings in the politically liberal segment of the
country. The Democratic Senators on the Com-
mittee, particularly Estes Kefauver and Clinton
Anderson (who worked with Strauss when he
was head of the Atomic ,Energy Commission),
gave ,him a pretty rought going-over; and
Senator Morse's comments on Mrs. Luce were
anything but friendly.
As a result, most of the national magazines,
favor of the plan was quite surprised at the
possibility that their home might be taken.
Andrew Kokinakes doesn't seem to understand
that he can move his house to another lot and
sell his old lot to the city at its cleared value,
and probably somehow get the moving expenses
paid by the city too.
COUNCILMAN LLOYD IVES found some in-
teresting rumors when he talked to 91 fami-
lies in the area last fall. One man thought the
City Council had hired the mayor to put Urban
Renewal through. A number thought that com-
pensation for houses acquired by the city would
be about equal to assessed valuation, which in
the area is about a fifth of market price, instead
of on market-price appraisals. The rumor that
the University wanted to build buildings in the
area was so prevalent, Ives said, that he checked
to make sure it was false. Some of these rumors
apparently spread because of hostility to and
suspicion of the University, as reflected in one
man's comment (paraphrased) that "they don't
have to come down here and help us." How
prevalent erroneous rumors are now is hard to
tell, but last week Mrs. Perkins thought that
payments for acquired homes would be $5,000
across the board instead of their market prices.
MOST OF THE misunderstanding and rumor
seems to be against the plan. That is natu-
ral, considering that it does threaten some
homeowners and that until last summer it was
pretty much introduced to them without their
understanding or help. The first ward's second
precinct, of which the renewal area is the
central three-quarters, went Republican in th
April election, by 92 votes in the mayoral race
and 60 in the Council race. But then Ives found
77 per cent of the 91 families he talked to
favored the plan after he explained it to them.
He also found that all but one of the 28 families
he visited in 16 of the 17 houses unable to be
brought up to code were in favor of the plan.
More explanation might win more residents
over to the plan.
At the moment, opinion for and against the
plan is largely uninformed. The City Council
did well in deciding to put out a pamphlet about
the plan. More is needed, though, especially in
the form of factual talk, for a pamphlet would
not be fully read or understood by all residents.
Perhaps the Council should revive the idea of
an information booth in the area,
-PETER DAWSON
Appointments
except for those usually classified as leftist or
radical, have been grumbling about the way the
Iature of the confirmation hearings were con-
ducted. "In short, Lewis Strauss' senatorial
enemies looked petty and foolish," said The
National Review. Others have not been lax to
seize the opportunity to beat the liberals over
the head for using the very tactics that they
hated so much when employed by the late
Senator McCarthy.
THIS MAY BE TRUE. Certainly "Do unto
others as they have done unto you" is not
too statesmanlike an axiom for political be-
havior, especially if "the others" are of the
McCarthy ilk.
However, the increased concern expressed by
Congress regarding Presidential appointments
'is essentially a healthy sign that Congress is
paying more serious attention to its confirma-
tion responsibilities than it has in the past.
And this, given the nature of some recent
Presidential selections, is certainly a good
thing.
-PHILIP POWER
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By WILLI
Agonitis'
[AM S. WHITE
THERE IS a Washington disease
which might be called Penta-
gonitis. The symptoms are these:
a progressive swelling of the whole
body (and of the spending budget).
A curious thickening of the tongue
which soon results in the abandon-
ment of the English language in
favor of a loud, brisk, multisyllabic
dialect. This dialect only the true
natives of Pentagonia, plus those
whose own culture has long ago
been overrun by the Pentagonians,
can manage.
When, in this odd patois, they
wish to say, for example, that they
are going to do something or end
something they bark the word -
or rather the sound - "finalize."
And as English is rejected as
the ordinary form of communica-
tion, other no less fundamental
changes also occur. Pentagonitis
will require, say, the space of
seven rooms for doing, the hard
way, what could be done quicker
in the space of one room.
PENTAGONITIS means the in-
troduction of vast numbers of
"labor-saving" devices. These de-
vices to reduce personnel will ala-
ways wind up proving that this is
indeed a healthily growing coun-
try. For they will require more
people to operate the cutting-down
plans than the number of people
who are in fact thus to be cut
down.
It would be extreme to say that
the machine, the push-button, the
automatic gadget, is the god of
V
Pentagonia. But it certainly would
be correct to say that this is Pen-
tagonia's unique gift to the art of
government.
Pentagonia, of course, is the
great principality whose capital is
the Pentagon - the home, across
the Potomac in Virginia, of our
military high commands. In terms
of years Pentagonia is a Johnny-
come-lately in Washington. But
in its relatively short existence
Pentagonitis has moved across the
river like a slow, massive tidal
wave.
Other government departments
have been infected, one by one,
with Pentagonitis. (Indeed, one
can even observe some of its effects
on what used to be the completely
detached island of the White
House itself.)
* *
THE LAST of the bureaucratic
strongholds to maintain all-out
resistance was the State Depart-
ment. For a time "State," perhaps
immunized by its own peculiar
brand of local bureaucrtic fevers,
threw off the infection of creep-
ing gadgetry, the principle of sub-
traction bymultiplication, which
typifies Pc ntagonia.
But "State" has long since fallen,
too. To what used to be its "new"
building in Foggy Bottom - a
building quite like the parent
building of Pentagonia across the
river-now is being added another
of precisely the same kind. It is a
duplicate of a duplicate, except
that this second one seems, if any-
thing, even bigger, and glossier,
and colder than the first.
Then, after "State" had suc-
cumbed, the very ultimate fortress
of non-Pentagonia was Congress.
And the heart of this fortress was
the United States Senate. For a
long time, the Senate persisted in
maintaining quarters small enough
to be traversed in less than a single
day. For a long time, it had a tele-
phone system that was the very
model of old-fashioned simplicity.
You simply picked up the phone,
asked for Senator Jones's office,
and got it straightaway. For a long
time, you could go right up to a
small postoff ice in the Senate wing
of the Capitol and buy a stamp
from a live hand.
* * *
BUT NOW, what with a new
office buildin~g of staggering bulk,
automatic elevators, artifical light
and all the rest, the Senate itself
looks like Pentagonia. Progress in
communication has come, too.
Now, there are not one but three
telephone dial systems. Gadgetry
has come triumphantly to the Sen-
ate, too. And now to buy a stamp
you must put a coin into a ma-
chine and then dial-yes, dial-a
number or a series of numbers.,
Thus, this is the sad end of the
tale: the final victory has been
finalized for Pentagonia and its
system for more and more effi-
ciency that is less and less effi-
cient.
(Copyright 1959, by United
Features Syndicate, Inc.)
States more or less cancel each
other out.
Turning now to May Festival, it
is quickly apparent that the pro-
gram somehow filled Hill Auditor-
ium just as, one begins to suspect,
any program would fill the seats
with something or other.
AFTER A FIRST-rate opening,
mainly featuring Rudolf Serkin at
the piano and Ormandy at the
baton in a Piano Concerto by
Brahms, there was a steady down-
hill progression to the inevitable
"Victor's March." (It is probably
interesting to note that the Vic-
tor's March always get the most
applause of all but let's not.)
The next evening was full of
dreary choruses singing something
unspeakable by Chabrier who
writes foolish waltzes; something
surrealistic by Poulencz which be-
came understandable just as it
ended, and something by Vaughan
Williams for the Birds.
On the Third Day of May Festi-
val, my True Love gave to me:
Three Thompson Trifles, Two Pot-
Boilers, and a conductor in a Pear
Tree.
* * *
THE CONDUCTOR was Andante
Smith, the Philadelphia's assistant
conductor who knows only one
tempo which, each time used, be-
comes more inappropriate. The two
Pot-Boilers were Brahms "Haydn
Variations," and Dvorak's First,
really not in this category. One
ought to be grateful to Dvorak, in
fact. His symphony saved the day,
coming after a collection of Im-
pressions of the Mud Pond at Mid-
night by Virgil Thompson. Since
tempos other than Andante were
required, Thompson conducted.
Saturday night was the loneliest
night of the week for musicians.
Lead-off spot was held by a Bach
Chaconne reorchestrated for large
orchestra and tam-tam by a Philly
violinist. Then came some songs
by one of the Festival solo clique.
It is certainly a pity that the Fes-
tival Authority thinks it can pack
the Hall by signing up all sorts of
soloists, as though the names will
bring in the crowds.
Even more unfortunate: it's
true.
Prokofiev's Seventh Syphmony
is generally considered to be a sad
disappointment, although the man
who writes programs notes for the
Festival turned to "Pravda" for
his description of the symphony.
Prokofiev was evidently uninflu-
enced by Wagner, so it was neces-
sary to turn to the outer world for
comment.
* *
AFTER STILL more songs came
a ballet by Roussel best left to the
imagination of the completely
inane who can doubtless appreci-
ate it.
Sunday afternoon brought forth
the chorus of drudges again for a
romp through Handel's "Solo-'
mon." An appraisal of this must1
be left to other writers; at any
rate, to someone who slept through
less than two-thirds.
SO FINALLY, after a devious
and circuitous route, we are
brought to the last evening of the
musical orgy. At last, for a brief
moment; Mozart's 38th symphony
and some singing by Basso Giorgio
Tozzi restored some of the lustre
which had been tarnished. But a
rambling tour through Ravel's
Second Daphnis and Chloe Suite
soon erased the memory of Mozart
and Tozzi. Several years ago, the
3oston Symphony Orchestra played
this Suite as it should be played,
and it should be played with well-
directed enthusiasm or not at all.
Ormandy saved his enthusiasm for
the Victor's March just as those
in the know will save their money
for typhoid shots.
Summing Up: An interesting
year, until the end.
-David Kessel
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By BRACK CURRY
Associated Press Correspondent
ENEVA (P)-From the sidelines
Heinrich von Brentano wields
close to veto power over major
Western policy decisions at the
Big Four Conference.
West Germany's bachelor For-
eign Minister has declined the
chair reserved for him in the or-
nate conference room. He has
assigned a subordinate to attend.
But he is quietly influencing the
talks on Berlin, Germany and
European security. He is a spokes-
man for 52 million West Germans.
Foreign Ministers of the United
States, Britain and France must
take into account his firmly held
views on all these problems.
This is the background:
The West German Republic is
now the strongest economic force
in West Europe. Its burgeoning
army by 1962 will be the strongest
continental element in the North
Atlantic Alliance .Chancellor Kon-
rad Adenauer has solidified close
relation with France, a traditional
foe, and with the United States.
REUNIFICATION of Germany
is one of the major objectives of
the West German government. But
it is not prepared to accept unifi-
cation fon Russian terms.
Similarly, it opposed any scheme
for a confederation of the two
German states, holding that this
would perpetuate the division of
the country and give the Com-
munist East Germans a hand in
shaping the future of a united
Germany. It considers a firm East-
West arrangement on disarma-
ment could smooth the path to
unity.
Von Brentano's absence from
the conference sessions stems from
one phase of the rivalry between
East and West German govern-
ments. He doesn't want to give
East German Foreign Minister
Lothar Bolz any idea that he con-
sidersrhim an equal.
Bolz sits in as chief of the East
German advisory delegation.
Von Brentano is represented by
Wilhelm Grewe, the West German
Ambassador to Washington. But
he keeps a close check on con-
ference affairs from his palatial
villa near the French frontier.
* * *
ALLIED with French Foreign
Minister Maurice Couve de Mur-
ville, he insists on an iron-hard
Western line in dealing with the
Russians. Britain favors a softer
approach. The United States
steers a somewhat middle course.
When there's a hint of even a
slight weakening of the Western
line, the heavy-set, broad-shoul-
dered German steps in quickly to
help repair the breach.
Once word leaked out that the
Western ministers might accept a
face-saving 'truce with the Rus-
sians over Berlin and sidetracked
their peace plan for Germany.;
Von, Brentano charged in with
a demand that the West tighten
up its posture. Backed by Couve de
Murville, he called on the West
to demand a maximum price from
Moscow for any back-tracking on
the West's package peace plan.
THE UNITED STATES, British
and French Foreign Ministers then
joined with Von Brentano to rush
out a statement saying that, while
Berlin and other issues could be
discussed with Russia outside the
peace plan, such issues could not
actually be settled separately from
this plan.
With the future of Germany at
stake, Von Brentano would like to
sit in on the ministerial sessions.
But his associates say he is con-
vinced it is deirable, for the pres-
ent at least, to leave his chair
vacant.
There are morning conferences
with his staff, then a meditative
walk among the cedars on the
vla. n'vii followeda inerh a fl
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Sits Out
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B~rentano
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
Support Anti-Discrimination Moves
INTERPRETING THE NEWS:
Factors. of Analysis
By J. M. ROBERTS.
Associated Press News Analyst
THERE ARE A VAST number of factors of
varying importance which, remembered from
day to day, help in assessment of the Geneva
proceedings.
First and foremost, of course, are the funda-
mental believe of the two opposing sides.
L714r Mir4,1-gall Daily
Western nations can never feel secure as long
as the Soviet Union combines traditional Rus-
sian expansionist policy with a revolutionary
economic concept which demands universality.
The other side of the coin is that the Com-
munists believe the West is just as intent on
the universality of their brand of democracy,
and that their motive is to wipe out the com-
petition of Communism.
DRIVEN BY THE expansionist and revolu-
tionary concepts, coupled with a very real
fear of renewed attack by Germany and of
attack by the Western world if it feels itself
losing the cold war, the Soviets will not aban-
don the aggressive posture which created the
cold war in the beginning.
There are a vast number of situations inci-
dental to this major conflict.
The presence of American troops in Berlin,
as in West Germany itself, is a part of the guar-
antee to Europe that it can resist Soviet pres-
sures in the full knowledge that an attack in
Europe will be an attack on the United States.
To the Editor:
THE Congregational, Disciples,
Evangelical and Reformed
Guild Council endorse four resolu-
tions, recently adopted, by the
NAACP State Convention. We of
the Guild, believe it is our Chris-
tian responsibility to work for the
following four resolutions which
will help to eliminate discrimina-
tion :
A) A resolution supporting
amending legislation to the state
Fair Employment Practices Act
giving all persons the right to em-
ployment, public accommodations,
housing and education without dis-
crimination; and creating a Civil
Rights Commission acting princi-
pally through mediation and con-
ciliation. We of the Guild favor
strong anti-discriminatory hous-
ing provisions protecting students
and others seeking "off campus"
housing.
B) A resolution supporting
strong educational provisions in
amending legislation to the FEP
Act making it an unfair practice
for public educational institutions
to practice discrimination in ad-
missions, or any other aspect of
the institution, or to abet dis-
crimination practiced by others.
C) A resolution calling upon the
U of M Regents, the MSU Trustees,
the WSU Governors,-and the State
Board of Education to establish in
their schools: 1) the policy that
these schools not practice or abet
discrimination, and support the
ticed or abetted in room and room-
mate assignments made by resi-
dence hall administration. The U
of M Residence Halls Governors
are commended in this resolution
by the NAACP for their removal of
questions pertaining to race, reli-
gion and national origin from ap-
plications. That landlords be dis-
couraged from discriminating, and
those who do, receive no assistance
from the schools. That "'recogni-
tion," and therefore sanction not
be extended to groups, incltiding
fraternal organizations, having
discriminatory membership prac-
tices. That scholarships, grants
and loans administered by public
schools have no discriminatory
restrictions.
The Guild will press for items in
these resolutions through its Social
Action Committee. We realize
morality can not be legislated, but
we believe the conditions wherein
justice and morality may develop
can be legislated.- We call on all
persons to support measures which
constructively work against dis-
crimination..
-The Congregational, Disciples,
Evangelical and Reformed
Guild Council
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AICHAEL KRAFT
ditorial Director
JOHN WEICHER
City Editor
DAVID TARR
Associate Editor
LLE CANTOR...................Personnel Director
AN WILLOUGHBY .... Associate Editorial Director
AN JONES ........................ Sports Editor
ATA JORGENSON ..........Associate City Editor
IZABETH ERSKINE ... Associate Personnel Director
COLEMAN ........... Associate Sports Editor
DRL RISEMAN ..........Associate Sports Editor
AVID ARNOLD ................ Chief Photographer