ElAte " gat Btty sevent y-Tbid Year EDnIrE AND MANAGE.D BY STUDENTS OFIM UNVESOTY oF MICWGAN y U NDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS bere Opinions Are PesSTUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG., ANN ARBOR, MicH., PHONE NO 2-3241 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. TAY, JULY 31, 1964 NIGHT EDITOR: ROBERT HIPPLER JROPEAN COMMENTARYI German Military Discilne AT IRISH HILLS Macbeth's Anguish: 'Inner Evil' EDITOR'S NOTE: The following review is the second in a series of articles on the Irish Hills Play- house. George A. White is editor of Generation and the New Poet Series. By GEORGE A. WHITE THE POWER of evil and its dis- integrating effect upon a noble man becomes a terrifying drama of crime and punishment, trans- forming Macbeth from bloody melodrama to profound tragedy. In repertory at the Irish Hills Playhouse Sunday night, powerful performances by a few players re- w..emed what might have been a P. wed and mediocre performance of one of Shakespeare's greatest plays. Macbeth derives its power and perhaps, its greatness, not from complex plotting, but from the anguished interaction of double protagonists: Macbeth and his lady. Dissimilar in character yet linked by a common ambition to greatnessat any cost, the paths of both are hopelessly and tragic- ally intertwined and exhibit more, clearly and more poignantly than any other drama, save Oedipus, the Greek maxim: "A man's char- acter is his fate." I Review, retrospective examina- tion, demands measurement against standards, not precon- ceived notions of what the play is. Too often a performance is damn- ed because the director's imagina- tion (witness the case with Bald- ridge's APA "Merchant of Venice") exceeds his critics' tolerance. Di- rector Feobert Cagle had a "crux" conception of the play. That is, from several consistant individual performances, the play took on a "shape"; that of a man who knew many things but not himself, who turned the suggestions of Fate in- UTHORITARIAN ABUSE in the mili- tary is as old as organized armies emselves. Spartan spirit has been ap- ed to crack troops in every country, in- ding the United States, to achieve top ;ciplnary and physical results. But such Spartan education is some- les not easily distinguished from abuse; >st notable in recent history is the and style abuse in Hitler's SS con-. illed "Wehrmacht"; but similar abuse d been more or less common under rler German and Prussian totalitarian vernments. To prevent baitings as these, the West rman parliament instituted an inves- ating position in 1957. The man who ce then has checked the Armed Forces West Germany, retired Vice-Admiral lmuth Heye, recently came up with ne astonishing results. In three articles blished in the German magazine Quick, exposed some of the trouble spots in e Army's military education program. n addition to these (very strongly irded) articles, he sent a factual re- et to parliament, describing the situa- in matter-of-fact tone. BOTH REPORTS, Heye attacks the lacking educational background of of- How's That? OUNCILMAN PAUL JOHNSON , told City Council Monday night that a icial meeting with Negro leaders to &. into possible racial explosions in n Arbor was unnecessary. 'After all, the most violent reactions by groes have taken place in New York, lih has the strongest civil rights law the nation," his reasoning went. "How . can we go?" Douncilman LeRoy Cappaert: "But vs are not the whole answer. It's the Itude with which you go at a problem." rohnson: "You're right. But no mat- how much we do, we'll always won- t' if we've done enough." AIT A MINUTE. Let's take that again. *New York, with strong laws, still ex- denced racial rioting. This is because rmaking is not the most important y to deal witlh crises. Therefore, council as not need to act in other ways, such finding out what the city's Negroes [nk. )r did Johnson mean: We have made fly laws. No matter how many more make, we will still not be sure there enough. Therefore we should stop king laws. Therefore we should. stop, iod. f only one knew how to interpret ki... -J. GOODMAN Editorial Staff INETH WINTER ...................... Co-Editor lARD HERSTEIN .................. Co-Editor &Y LOU BUTOHER ...a..........Associate Editor RLBC TOWLE.......... ..... Sports Editor IPRI6Y GOODMAN........... ..Night Editor ERT HIPPLER_..................... Night Editor hENoE KIRSHBAUM ................ Night Editor Business Staff NEY PAUER.............. Business Manager ER DODGE.........Assistant Business Manager WELLMAN .................. Supplement Manager 'H SoHEMNITZ .............. Circulation Manager iblished daily Tuesday through Saturday morning. mer subseriptlon rates $2 by carrier, $250 by mail. .nld class posage paid at run Arbor, Mich. ficers. He charges that they often ex- pect too much discipline without expla- nation and, specifically, he says that they educate the soldiers "with the weapons of tomorrow, but in the spirit of yester- day." In NATO circles, the officers corps of the German armed forces is highly es- teemed as one of the militarily most reli- able ones. But Heye questions their total commitment to the principle of civil- Ian control of the army. He perceives threatening signs of the armed forces becoming a "state within a state"; this new state tends to become less and less responsible to the representatives of the German electorate, he feels. In an organization with this tendency, authoritarian abuse, such as baiting or insufficient moral backing of discipline, can grow at an alarming rate, if not checked early. Heye says that the time has come that the "rudder must be thrown around and that a radical change of style must be achieved." But the government reacted bitterly; an almost immediate response was fired off from Bonn to deny the chargesmade by Heye. His reproaches were "contradic- tory" and "generalizing," the response said. Heye was accused of projecting a bad image of the whole army from a few instarices which have come to his atten- tion. A defense authority stated that "a crisis of confidence" had developed over the report in parliament. BUT THE ABUNDANT attention which he got was exactly Heye's aim. In an application to the press, he reasoned that his criticism was intended to make leg- islators wake up to some developments which are not in the spirit of an army "by the people and for the people." Civil- ians must realize to a greater extent that the army is here for them and military personnel must get a feeling of responsi- bility towards a cause, rather than ad- here to blind discipline. Despite the violent response of the Bonn government, Heye is confident that through actual pace by pace work de- scribed in his alarming report, democratic solutions will be assured. At least he has the public interest aroused and waiting for an outcome in the dispute. -ERIC KELLER Daily Correspondent Picking A Mate PRESIDENT JOHNSON said yesterday that he had "reached the conclusion that it would be inadvisable for me to recommend to the convention any mem- ber of my cabinet or any of those who work regularly with the cabinet."t Though he apparently did not explain why it would be inadvisable, there are two possible explanations: -He doesn't think the country can get along if both he and another prominent member of the administration were run- ning . around campaigning in the next couple months. Who would be left to run the country? -He doesn't like the looks of any of these people. As he said at his news con- ference earlier yesterday, "I would like for him (the vice-presidential nominee) to be attractive. . . -E. HERSTEIN TODAY AND TOMORROW Goldwater's Conflict Of Goals Dangerous By WALTER LIPPMANN THE $64 QUESTION about Sen. Barry Goldwater's principles is how he disposes of the head-on collision between his domestic and his foreign beliefs. In internal affairs he is an ardent anti-Federalist who would like to reduce sharply and deeply the national power over the in- ternal economy of the nation, its natural resources, its transporta- tion system and its large-scale industry. In foreign affairs, on the other hand, he is an ardent nationalist who is ready to con- front the Soviet Union and China with a choice between capitulation and war. So far as I know, he has never tried to explain, or perhaps he has never considered, how this coun- try is to risk the third world war while at the same time it is liqui- dating the federal institutions and measures with which it can mobi- lize the national economy. ONE OR THE other, his foreign or his domestic beliefs, would make a conceivable line of policy for the nation. The foreign policy of confront- ing both the Soviet Union and China with an order that they must cease and desist and with- draw entails murderous risks to all mankind. But such a policy would have a certain kind of lurid and fanatic logic behind it if we were prepared not only to accept the risks, but were prepared also for the costs and sacrifices of the consequences. There might also be a kind of logic in setting out to dismantle as much as possible of the federal expansion which has been created in the 20th century. A really thorough-going Goldwaterism at home would not, however, be merely amiable and picturesque nostalgia, like rebuilding Williams- burg or the Wayside Inn. With- out doubt, Goldwaterism applied rigorously at home would provoke some social disorder. For the con- gested urban masses cannot live in a loose 19th-century social order. But if, while Goldwaterism were being applied at home, we were also practicing Goldwaterism in foreign affairs, the country would be in the crazy position of risking a very great war while it was dis- organizing itself at home. SO THE QUESTION is how it is possible to combine Goldwater- ism at home and Goldwaterism abroad. The two combined howl at each other. They raise the question of how a sane man can believe both of them at the same time. Will the senator deny that if you decide to risk war you must prepare for war? Will he deny that to be prepared for modern war you must be prepared to mobilize, not only the armed forces, but the whole national economy? Can anyone argue that the way to pre- pare the national economy for war is to reduce the national power and influence over it? Yet, Goldwaterism at home, the longing to restore America as it was before this century, makes sense only if we can also restore the world as it was before the great wars and the great revolu- tions and the population explosion and the technical developments of the 20th century. THERE ARE, however, some answers to the $64 question. The first is that Senator Gold- water is not serious about Gold- waterism at home.. Only the very gullible among his followers can believe that he could or would repeal so much of the history of this century. What he really means is that if he were President he would oppose almost every new federal measure. His wild declara- tions against the progressive in- come tax and the Social Security and the Tennessee Valley Author- ity are to be condoned as wild oats. But the most important answer to the $64 question is that Senator Goldwater believes he can con- front the Soviet Union and China without the risk of war. He is not trying to bluff. It is more serious than that. He is suffering from a delusion that the United States is omnipotent and irresistible and that our adver- saries would not stand up against us. THIS IS THE most dangerous illusion that can possess the head of a government: that all the other governments will do what he com- mands them to do. It is because Senator Goldwater is obsessed by the delusion of American omni- potence that he sees no contra- diction between a foreign policy which would risk great wars and a domestic policy which would dis- mantle the national power. For in the realm of delusion, nothing is impossible. (c),1964, The Washington Post Co. to actualities as a result of his own inner evil, who could not control himself. ROBERT JONES as Macbeth appeared at the outset of the play as a brave warrior, a courteous gentleman and a loyal subject. The evil was within him, not tempted, not exposed. The witches unsettle him-they stir this dark, unconscious evil. Jones faithfully recorded the anguish, the tur- moil of a man driven almost against his will by forces not un- derstood. Before any scene with Lady Macbeth, Jones successfully transmitted the ambivalence, the vacillation between desire and reason, ambitionand the "right." The drama began its lop-sided tendency with the entrance of the King, Duncan. I saw too much of Feste, the clown George Wright acts in Twelfth Night, in his por- trayal of the fated king. Too youthful, too full of bubbling af- fectations, Wright was less the kindly, compassionate old man that Shakespeare created as a foil to darken Macbeth's ldeed. The reading of Macbeth's letter was the first entrance of Ann Rivers as Lady Macbeth who showed excellent inflection In voice and great poise. But she lacks, at least as Lady Macbeth, understanding of the role and the intricate timing and control it requires. HER READING gave the au- dience the impression that Mac- beth had decided, then and there, to do the old man in. This was a diametric contradiction to the pre- vious performance of Jones who had just begun to experience the darkness within. Miss Rivers made concrete a league that had not yet formed, a union that had its strength, intended by Shakespeare, first in the woman-an Eve forc- ing and cajoling a confused and emotion-torn Adam. Her "un-sexing" soliquey lacked this necessary definition. It need- ed power, power that Miss Rivers evidentally had, but did not see fit to interject and consequently, project. AT POINTS, Jones was superb. The "dagger scene" became a moment of sheer terror: "Is this a dagger which I see before me/The handle toward my hand?" But in addition to weak support, he had to battle a too eager host of sound effects. The subconscious evil was constantly (and too loudly) fore- shadowed by music. In later scenes it was put to good use, emphasiz- ing the enormity of the crime. In addition to the sound effects, scene changes were poorly timed. True, Shakespeare's theatre saw no scenes-action was continuous. But Cagle should have thought to allow the impression of each scene, at least at critical points, build and batter the audience. In the "drunken porter" scene, the bloodstained murders of Dun- can were on stage at the same time as the tipsy porter. The ef- fects of the emotion-laden murder were lost. Tall and lean, Eric Nord played the drunken porter well. He ban- tered back and forth with Victor Raider-Wexler as Macduff, true to Shakespeare's conception of AS IF TO TEST JONES, Mal- com and Donalbain were exasper- ating. Both lacked voices that projected emotion. Joe Schwerer as Malcom, just didn't have a thorough enough understanding of the play as a whole to contribute to the climax. His actions :and speech, a little too boyish while at Macbeth's castle, fell flat in the encounter with Macduff at the King's palace in England. Only the poise of Eric Nord as Ross breaking the difficult news to Macduff saved the scene. And even this was tested by Macduff's rallying speech, one that is best forgotten. * * * MUCH OF the credit for the massive doses of fear goes to the WHAT TO TELL Advice toRobin' Viewers At the state Theatre MOST MOVIE reviews are writ- ten to people who haven't yet seen the particular movie. But after seeing 100 long-faced citi- zens straggle1out of the State Theatre at around 11:30 last night. we feel moved to dedicate this message to them. Cheer up. We understand. Alas, we were there, too. Oh yes, we were warned not to blow two hours on "Robin and the Seven Hoods." But we could not be traitors to our childhood. We still remember Sherwood Forest, Nottingham, the Merry Men. We could easily forget this mo- vie, but we fear the friends who I FEIFFER told us to stay away may not let bygones be bygones. Have the same problem? If so, here are a list of do's and don't's which we in- tend to use in fending off would- be gloaters. You may have them without cost-all we ask is a vol- untary pledge never to see this or any other Clan movie again. Ready? DO TELL THEM that Frank Si- natra, in the lead as Robbo, a Chicago speakeasy operator, avoids the usual stereotype of the "typ- ical roaring-twenties gangster. Don't tell them that much of the movie's humor was dependent on his fulfilling that stereotype. Do tell them it's been an aw- fully long time since a good, orig- inal musical comedy came out of Hollywood. Should they remain undeterred, asking if "Robin and" ended the drought, tell them the truth-but quickly add that's all right because "Robin and" Was ,neither very musical nor very comical. Don't, under any condi- tions, let them know that it was intended to be both. If they press you, make the most out of the few pearls the movie offered. Mention Maxie Ros- enbloom, whose face resembles sil- ly putty with a nervous system, twitching and contorting at the most effective moments-usually. (You may omit the "usually" if necessary.) Tell them about the keen revolving sets that turn a booze-and-gambling joint into a revival meeting, and hope they never saw the late Ernie Kovacs doa simili trick vanrago n Tl piece, punctuated with machine- gunnery, called "Bang-Bang." * * * TELL THEM HOW brilliantly the Clan has placed its musical numbers in the context of the plot. Don't tell them what "brilliantly placed" means; i.e., that most of the songs constituted about the' only hope of rescuing their re- spectie scenes from total col- lapse. And don't tell them that, once the incongruity of their place- ment had elicited a few grudg- ing chuckles, the songs themselves were even less entertaining than the scenes they were supposed to rescue. Don't tell them that Bing Crosby looked so bored during one dance number that hedidn't even bother to stay in step with Si- natra and (tyy to leave this name out of the discussion altogether) Dean Martin. 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