Seventieth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY' OF MICHIGAN Men Opinions Are Free UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Trt Will Preval" STUDENT 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. 'THE AFFAIR': C. P. Snow Examines Justice SDAY, AUGUST 4, 1960 NIGHT EDITOR: ANDREW HAWLEY Rockefeller-Nixon Pact Stems from Party Ties [T HAS BEEN INTERESTING, even amusing, to watch the collective gnashing of teeth by he liberals-notably The Daily's own Max ;erner-at the thought of an alliance between rice-President Nixon and Governor Rocke- eller. How could Rockefeller do such a thing? Walter Lippmann has pointed out that the low famous "Treaty of Fifth Avenue" deals nore in aims, about which most all leaders .gree, than about means. This seems true, hough the Governor and the Vice-President nay also be closer on means than many sus- ect. The upshot of it all is that the two GOP eaders will work together to attain these ends, .nd to attain them by Nixon's election. Baseball $raitegy BASEBALL Commissioner Ford Frick has now made it official. There will be two all-star games played next year, but the following year the public will be treated to only one spectacular. With the two-game idea receiving rela- tively poor support from the fans this year, the players' association would have appeared wiser had it reverted to the traditional pro- cedure of one a year, for baseball's own good. But such is not the case. Professional base- ball, despite its tearful protestations to Con- gressional committees of being "the national pastime" and played only for the spirit of healthful competition, operates in the truest American tradition - the battle for the dollar. Baseball companies have gotten the blame (and the rewards) for operating the game in a business-like manner for years. Now it is the players who are turning their eyes to a more pleasant shade of green than the outfield lawn. Though many may cry for the good old days of the sport, pro baseball has always been big business. This time, however, the spikes are on the other feet., -BURNS ROCKEFELLER COULDN'T get together with Nixon-but he did. He must feel that the Republican party, which spent a great deal of its time in Chicago affirming the abil- ity of the individual citizen to do much of what he must by himself, is the party to attain the generally desired ends. But still, how could Rockefeller associate himself with the man often called "Trickle- Dickie?" Perhaps it is because he thinks this label is not true, at least to the extent the Vice-President's enemies like to think. In sup- porting Nixon in this sense, Rockefeller joins a long list of men of integrity, headed by Pres- ident Eisenhower, who feel Nixon can, in this respect, measure up to Presidential standards. It might also be well to add that Nixon rep- resents only one-quarter of the national can- didates who have controversial incidents in their past to explain-if this really means anything. Drew Pearson wrote a couple of long columns about Sen. Johnson and Texas oil interests. Sen. Kennedy has to explain, as the GOP gleefully pointed out, about his state- ment that the French should evacuate Al- geria, and about his contested remarks on the administration's handling of the summit con- ference collapse. Ambassador Lodge is enjoying a period of grace, probably because opposi- tion "strategists" haven't had time to rake his past. The whole point is that, if Nixon is not lily-white, which he is not, neither are many other men in politics. ANYWAY, ROCKEFELLER is for Nixon. He may have "sold his soul" in the belief Nixon will lose, and he will thus inherit the party, but his televised appearances and reported statements in Chicago would belie this. If he was faking, Rockefeller should have been on the Broadway stage rather than in the Albany statehouse. The campaign will evidence how deep his support actually is. There's nothing illogical about the arrange- ment. Rockefeller and Nixon certainly don't agree on everything, and there is even less agreement between Rockefeller and Sen. Gold- water at the other wing of the party. But this does not mean Rockefeller should not feel the GOP still cannot do the job better than its opposition. -PHILIP SHERMAN THE AFFAIR. By C. P. Snow. 374 pp. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. $4.50. IN THE LATE 'thirties, a physi- cist and fellow of Christ's Col- lege Cambridge, having made attempts at writing science fiction and detective fiction, began work on the first in a series of novels in which he planned to examine the interrelations of man and his society by following the life and career of one individual over a long period of years. The first novel, Strangers and Brothers, appeared in 1940, and since then Sir Charles Percy Snow has added seven more volumes to his life-long chronicle of the ad- ventures of Lewis Eliot. The se- quence at present looks like this, with date of publication followed by the period covered by the ac- tion of the novel: Strangers and Brothers (1940), 1925-33 The Conscience of the Rich (1958), 1927-36. Time of Hope (1949), 1914-33. The Light and the Dark (1947), 1935-43. The Masters (1951), 1937. The New Men (1954), 1939-46. Homecomings (1956), 1938-48. The Affair (1960), 1953-54. While Lewis Eliot serves throughout the sequence as ob- server and narrator, only the books Time of Hope and Homecomings relate the events of his personal life and, in doing so, round out the early (three volumes) and middle (four volumes) periods of that life. Snow expects to com- plete the project with a final cycle of four novels, the first of which has just appeared. FROM THE very beginning of the "Strangers and Brothers" series, and more noticeably in the later volumes, Snow's concern with society is a strongly moral concern. Being an Englishman, he evidences his concern in the re- served manner of the well-to-do middle class, assuming a certain unbending righteousness and faith in the ability to judge character that still further strengthens the moral tone and point of view. Since he follows Lewis Eliot through most of twentieth-century society, Snow is able to examine a wide range of moral problems. In The New Men he takes up the question of the atomic bomb. In The Conscience of the Rich he looks at racial, religious and finap- cial prejudice-a theme that lurks in most of Snow's novels as it does in all of Englsh society. BUT IT IS the heavy-handed seriousness with which Snow ap- proaches these problems, the earn- estness and assured righteousness with which his characters speak, the continual coming and going of minor characters from one novel to another, and the utter simpli- city to be found in Snow's writing -it is all these qualities that re- mind the reader of nothing so much as the daily radio serial. Even the short chapters, with just the right amount of action and the carefully worded title, add to the illusion. "Strangers and Brothers," Book 8, Chapter 39, "View of an Old Man Asleep," has the same amount of action and dialogue, the same,.amount of character development, the same amount of plot advancement in its four pages as there is to be found in the fifteen minutes of, say, "One Man's Family," Book 65, Chapter 21, "Father Barbour Takes a Nap." AND, LIKE soap opera, C. P. Snow is occasionally interesting. Perhaps his most successful novel to date is The Masters, which re- lates the events leading up to the election of the master of a Cam- bridge college. Here Snow exploits the small; closed, conservative academic soci- ety of the thirteen fellows who make up the college and the poli- tical activity that goes on as the sides form behind their candidates, caucus, scheme, reconsider, and finally vote. A few of the princi- pals stand out as characters, but only with some effort on the part of the reader, for Lewis Eliot's narration is not of the far-seeing sort, but limited to what he sees as an active participant in the politicking. The real fascination of The Mas- ters, such as it is, lies in the fascination of politics, of watching people negotiate for positions, of waiting to find out who will win. This and the charm of the col- lege, the dinners in hall, the sherry parties, the atmosphere of the common room - these are the things that make The Masters Snow's only really interesting novel. IT IS NO surprise, then, that Snow returns to the scene of his earlier triumph in his latest novel, The Affair. The time is seventken years after the election of the present master and the ,fellows of the college are looking forward to the imminent election of a new master. The central concern of the novel, however, is for a young scientist convicted of a scientific fraud and deprived of his fellowship. New evidence appears that at least throws strong doubt on the scien- tist's guilt and a majority of the fellows, formed with difficulty, de- mands a rehearing of the case. When the young man's guilt is reaffirmed by the court of senior fellows, the suspicion grows among the younger fellows that Donald Howard wa judged not on the basis of evidence presented but on his character. For The Affair takes place in 1953-54, when John Wain's Hurry on Down and Kings- ley Amis's Lucky Jim were first published, and Donald Howard is an Angry Young Man. Snow's portraits of the Angry Young Men-there are two, not counting borderline cases - are commendable for their almost sympathetic restraint in the face of Snow's (or Lewis Eliot's) clear but unspoken disapproval. The two stomp about, alternately shouting and brooding, unaware that they can count on no permanent place in the society to which they hope to belong. Most memorable is Howard's un- explained, and unwarranted, silent and sullen conduct at the final hearing, where the sole impression he gives is one of a refusal to cooperate. This is perhaps the only place in the "Strangers and Broth- ers' sequence where Snow's han- dling of character is at all subtle, HAVING CHOSEN character prejudice as the moral problem for this volume of the series, Snow brings forth the Dreyfus case for comparison and makes its relation clear through 'a parallel series of events and the very title of his novel. In both affairs, the ques- tions of a man's guilt, never clear, is obscured by prejudice, accusa- tions of prejudice, and manufac- tured complications that almost replace the original issue. Throughout The Affair, the only rationale offered on either side of the case is one of feeling and con- viction. The younger fellows, as a body, are convinced of Howard's innocence and think the seniors prejudiced against him for his leftist views. The seniors are equally determined tobelieve in Howard's guilt. No reasons are given. Nor does Snow really resolve his problem, for the case is won when Lewis Eliot, acting as a legal con- sultant, produces a red herring in the form of suspicion cast against one of the seniors hearing the case, with the result that the seniors, anxious to avoid both complica- tions and publicity, again make their decision on more than con- sideration of the merits of the case itself, INDEED, IF THERE is any jus- tice in The Affair, it is justice defined as the ability of the Eng- lishman to judge character. And therein lies the only real worth of the novel-in its incisive portrait of the comfortable, conservative middle class. ' Otherwise, the novel is annoying for a pedantic scattering of for- eign words and phrases, for the unending parade of characters from other novels whose destinies have to be related, but most of all for the soap-opera seriousness of it all: As I stood there, though, gaz- ing down on the road, Margar- et's arm around me, I was not searching down into my experi- ence. I was merely aware of a kind of heavy vexation. I was thinking, I had met few people who, made aware beyond all self-deception of an inconven- ient fact, were not at its mercy. Even this short extract from The Affair indicates the simple, straightforward qualities of Snow's writing. Descriptive material is often perfunctory and usually limited to a single sentence. Judg- ing from the earlier novels, it might be said that Snow is obliv- ious to art, but in The Affair he includes a few carefully offhand statements to show that he at least knows a few names. All considered, Snow's only real contribution to letters has been his recent lecture, "The Two Cul- tures and the Scientific Revolu- tion," in which he sees and de- plores a society sharply divided between the scientific and artistic cultures, neither of which is able to understand the other. Snow's place is quite clearly with the scientists. -Vernon Nahrgang Peace Seeker Fights Back HONOLULU (R)--Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling says the Senate internal security subcom- mittee is invading four of his con- stitutional rights by ordering him to disclose names of scientists who helped him in a world peace campaign. Pauling said the order would deprive him of "freedom of con- science, freedom of speech, free- dom of the press and freedom of assembly" The petition, carrying the names of 11,000 scientists from 49 countries, urged international agreement to ,ban nuclear testing. Pauling prepared it for presenta- tion to the United Nations. --David Giltrow Minor ' Lp Major A ccomplishment THERE IS NO more difficult opera vocally or dramatically than "Don Giovanni," and I had sincere misgivings that the School c Music might have tried to outreach its grasp in the current offering of the Mozart work at Lydia Mendelssohn. But I was hap pily wrong, and they have come through with flying colours, so that even their difficulties appear as strengths. Josef Blatt is in the main responsible for this, and it is his great thoroughness and style that make the Don what it is. He always knows exactly what he can expect from his singers and he knows how to get it. It is to his credit that a sense of urgency as well as a fine Mozartian lightness permeated the evening, It is also a compliment to him that his singers presented an inte- grated group that was strong andi sure in the ensemble passages, and MAAX L ER NE RrA -. .. Fez , T - f&-~;: " '. . , THERE IS A curious American superstition that whenever a commentator (like a black cat) crosses your path you must do something about it, so you ask him how he stands on the election campaign. Bowing to this superstition, I want to set down at some length how the candidates and parties size up in an overall way right now, from my angle of vision. CHARACTERISTICALLY, Vice-President Nixon, whose stance on the arms race and the political warfare with the Russians is one of defiant confidence, is bearish about his elec- tion chances at home and is planning to run scared. Characteristically, Sen. Kennedy, who is critical about America's present world posi- tin, is quietly confident about a Democratic victory at, home. Nixon is casting himself in the underdog role, counting on the trait in the American national character which roots for an uphill fighter. Kennedy counts on continuing the image which he projects of an unbeatable leader who has won every contest he entered, except for the Vice-Presidential nomination in 1956-which he was lucky to lose, since it would have led nowhere. Incidentally, there is a legend that Nixon also has never suffered a political reverse. This is untrue. Just two years ago, in the Congres- sional election campaign which he organized and led for the Republicans, he pitched the appeal against Democratic "radicalism" and "socialism," in accents very similar to Barry Goldwater's convention speech, The Democrats gave him and his party a severe drubbing. Clearly he decided at that time to pitch his 1960 campaign left of center. IT IS HARD TO translate American politics into foreign terms.-But I should guess that its platform and its candidate's speeches now place the Republican party just to the right of Macmillan's British Tories (which is pretty far left for the Republicans), while the Democrats under their platform and candidate are Just to the right of Hugh Gaitskill's British Labor- ites, which is also pretty far left for them. Given this shift leftward of both parties, I can understand the concern and despair of the conservatives in both, especially among the Republicans. What I find harder to understand w tngs f.w>.~. '*t, . is the despair among some liberal Democrats, especially in New York and California, who have done so much to create the current liberal climate, yet speak of sitting on their hands and not voting in November. This is the disease of utopianism, which is one of the fatal diseases of our time. Neither party has emerged from its convention with a conscience pure as snow. Yet my guess is that each has done tolerably well for itself, and that the independents have the duty of chosing between them instea dof going off into a nirvana of no-choice-which is itself a form of choice since it leaves the field to those with few scruples, few reservations and no thoughts except a blind party loyalty. ASSUMING THAT THE election will be won or lost in ten or a dozen big urban states which might go in either direction, the straw polls giving Kennedy a strong lead in those states belie the bookie odds, which are on Nixon. I suspect that the bookies are reckoning with a potential anti-Kennedy vote which will go against him partly on the youth-and-experi- ence issue, but mainly on the question of Ca- tholicism, and which is not yet openly ex- pressed in the straw polls. No one at this point can gauge the size of that vote. It isn't the usual anti-Catholic big- otry which expressed itself in the 1928 elections but a later form of anti-clerical feeling which seems to fear Vatican power and recalls the Catholic support given to McCarthy. I disap- prove strongly of votinig that runs in these terms. Size up Kennedy for what he is himself. and the party for which he speaks: don't saddle him with sins that don't belong to him and are far from his own thinking. Yet I sus- pect that this group will play a role in the campaign and must be reckoned with. So will the liberal independent group which, on crucial issues, has in the past shied away from Nixon and yet is disillusioned at the mar- riage of convenience of the Kennedy and Lyn- don Johnson forces. THIS WILL BE a strange campaign, largely geared at reaching these balance-of-power groups in the key states. To reach them Ken- nedy will need all the help that Adlai Steven- son can give him in the campaigning, and Nixon will need all the help Nelson Rockefeller can give him. Tn tho vitnrhl .n+r: thai n rs n hhat- that they often surpassed them- selves under his guidance. ** * FIRST HONORS of the evening go to Janet Ast for a Donna Anna of fine vocal consistency and more than occasional brilliance. She uses her beautiful voice with a sure sense of melodic line and 4o- zart style. She has the delicacy for the ensembles where she lends a warm fullness, the flexibility for the "Non mi dir," and the power to meet the cruel demands of the "Or sai the 'Honore." Further- more, she has the added distinc- tion of a dignified stage presence and a costume (perhaps the only one) that is both creditable and becoming. Jerry Lawrence's drawing of the Don is simpler than some, but is nonetheless warm and charming. His youth and physical appear- ance make him visually appealing from the start, and he uses a re- markable dexterity in balancing the dual necessity of vocal and dramatic purpose that is the es- sence of the role, THE DON IS a difficult charac- ter. He is a whole series of para- doxes that are played out before the audience. And, interestingly enough, he has no major aria. Mozart makes his charm a matter of the quicksilver of the cham- pagne aria and the elegance of the serenade. We might argue with a few of Mr. Lawrence's ideas about the Don, but they would be minor points in a presentation of thor- ough musicianship. Donna Elvira, likewise, is a dffi- cult character, requiring far more an actress than the other female roles. She is another series of paradoxes, hating the Don but convinced she can save him from *imself. Dolores Dardarian's bright, highly controlled voice offered a fine foil to Miss Ast's fuller one in their numerous scenes together, and met the need for a florid bra- vura with skill and understanding. Her acting, when it came up to her vocal standard, gave us a con- vincingly fiery Elvira. * * * JUDITH HAUMAN'S Zerlina was presented with a wonderful spirit and style. Her "Vedral carino" was vocally and visually a pure delight. Donald Ridley's Leporello was perhaps too funny, and he lost some of the stature of the role as a result. The interlude beneath El-, vira's balcony was spoiled by a comic approach to a scene with definite tragic overtones. His cata- logue aria found a happier medium and made the most of a good situ- ation. Don Ottavio was, as usual, a nice dull young man who follows Don- na Anna, and nothing was done to help when half the reason for his existence, the superb "Dalla sua pace," was cut. Gilbert Vick- ers made what little he could of what was left, but was hindered not only by the role, but also by the worst costume of the evening. * * * THE SCENERY was dull and ponderous and there was at least three times too much of it, even excluding a drop curtain that made me recoil in horror on its first appearance. The staging, on the other hand; was unusually concise, suffering only from having to go on in front DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of The Univer- sity of Michigan for Which Th Michigan Daily assumes no edi- torial responsibility. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to x Room3519 Adminstration Build- ing, before 2 p.m. two days preced- ing publication. THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1960 VOL. LXX, NO. 32S General Notices Foreign Film: "Casque DOr" with Simone Signoret, Claude Dauphin and Serge Reggiani will be shown at 7 p.m. Thurs., Aug. 4 in the Multi-Purpose Room, Undergraduate Library. 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