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T HE MICHIGAN DAILY
SUNDAY, MARCH 20, 1966
FILMS
Polanski's 'Knife' Over-Reacts
To Symbols, Hurts Characters
'U' Scraps Poverty Plan
For Lack of Poor Students
.y JAMES SCHIUTZE
Roman Polanski's "Knife in the
.Water"- doesn't quite make it to
the bottom of the lake. "Knife"
combines, a simple slick story with
careful and beautiful photography
t say something which ends up
a little slurred in Polanski's tell-
ing.,
The screenplay speaks plainly:
younger man goes sailing with
older man and woman. A contest
ensues. Older throws younger's
knife, A Symbol, into the water.
The two scuffle over older's
cavalier treatment of younger's
Symbol, and the angry youth falls
into the lake, apparently drown-
ing. Cgptain Older Man swims. off
after the police, leaving his lone-
some woman to be wooed by a wet,
smirking crew.
Shenpp: Everything Went
But Nothing Seemed To6 Fit
By DAVID BERSON
Tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp
led his quartet throughl a disap-,
pointing concert last night in
Trueblood Auditorium.
The performance was distinct
only in the group's variations in
intensity, and volume unlike
Shepp's previous performances,
particularly his Newport effort of
last summer which was lyrical
and sensitive. Shepp and his trom-
bonist Roswell Rudd' confined
themselves for the most part to;
unintelligible honkings and blar-"
ings, while sensitive bass work by
Charlie Haden only "glimpsed
through the frenzy.
The concert began an hour early.
Shepp sat at the piano playing
Duke Ellington tunes, while the
audience filed in. It was his best
playing of the evening.
Then Shepp's group filed in
joining him for a forty-five min-
ute barrage of'sound, Shepp alter-
nating with ludd on pianlo. , The
piece, Shepp's "Rufus," turned out
to be largely a vehicle for his'
drummer Beaver Harris,. who dis-'
played other-worldly stamina'and
dynamacity.
The next piece began with arco
work by Haden, accompanied
sparsely and accurately by Rudd's
piano and Harris. Haden, who has
recorded extensively with altoist
Ornettq Colemen, was for the first
time heard in the evening :and he
took full advantage of the outing.
Shepp entered in the middle of the
piece and read a poem of black
militancy, the type which has
made. him the most controversial
jazzman today, "Take this ex-
cannibal's kiss and turn it into
a revolution." Then Shepp and
Rudd finished the piece with an
intricate blues head.
What held the concert together
for' the most part were visual ef-
fects and Shepp's remarkable
enerby. Rudd, attired in sweat-
shirt, sport coat, light blue pants
and U.S. Keds paced around the
stage, stopping to sway occasion-
ally, the tips of Harris'' drum
sticks flew off onto the floor, and
Haden coddled and cajoled his
instrument.
But the sound was mostly just
that. Group interaction was at a
minimality, intensity and volume
the only distinguishable charac-
teristics.
The sounds .and the form were
indiscriminate. Everything seem-
ed to go, hothing seemed to fit.
But then the movie ends. Polan-
ski draws up the purse strings of
his plot and knots them neatly
into a moral melodrama about
young sailors and cuckolded cap-
tains, youth and the supplantation
of age.
The cuckold, Leon Niemczyk,
prefers sailing to walking. He has
faith in discipline, skill, and
method rather than in muscle. He
started as a poor student like the
youth, but he has since acquired
a lot of things because he knows
how to navigate life. (One of the
things he has acquired is a wom-
an, Jolanta Umecka, who is the
living refutation of every joke
ever told about Polish girls and
piano legs.)
Youth tells time by the sun,
maturity by a device. Youth feels
where maturity must think. One
walks, the other sails. And one is
duped into swimming off by the
other's pretended helplessness. Of
course, while the captain is away,
his ship goes down.
But somewhere the thread of
sensitive conflict between two
mentalities is lost to, a farmer's
daughter story about boys, men,
and Polish girls who don't have
piano legs. The modes of existing
which youth and maturity could be
used to symbolize are sacrificed
to the symbols themselves.
Polanski handles the tools of
cinema well. His tendency to allow
technical concern and plot to over-
shadow depth and emotion is the
more disappointing in view of his
other merits.
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would have to investigate the
available job opportunities, deter-
mine the number of students eli-
gible for the project, and try to
interest more people in coming
here under the program, all of
which would involve considerable
manpower that the offices of fi-
nancial aids and part-time em-
ployment do not have.
Overworked
He added that the Office of Fi-
nancial Aids is occupied :at the
present time with more than 4000
scholarship applications, the con-
tinuation of the National Defense
Education Act (NDEA), loan pro-
gram, and' later with the Oppor-
tunity Awards Program.
However, Rea said that a work
study program could be very
worthwhile in areas where there is
need for it. The University's Dear-
born campus has a small program.
which provides salaries for educa-
tion students to work as part-time
teachers in area schools. Work-
study programs are also in opera-
tion at the University of Minneso-
ta and Temple University and oth-
er big-city schools.
Study Related
Rea stressed the fact that if a
work-study program is to be suc-
cessful at the University it will
have to provide jobs related to the
student's area of study. He pointed
out that graduate students already
have this opportunity, since stu-
dents in such areas as chemistry.
psychology, and sociology are able
to apply for numerous part-time
research jobs in areas related to
their field of study, and all grad-
uate students have the opportunity
to become teaching assistants.
Rea predicted that the Univer-
sity will probably not apply for
funds for a work-study program
next year.
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LEO W. SCHWARZ, Visiting Prof., State Univ. of Iowa
MARCH 18 through MARCH 25
Educated at Harvard, Jewish Institute of Religion
and New York University. Student of George Foot
Moore, Harry A. Wolfson and Alfred North White-.
head. Currently Prof. of Judaic Studies. In 1960
taught at U. of Stellenbosch in South 'Africa. Next
year will be Prof. of Religion at Carleton College.
Leading editor and anthologist in Jewish field.
Revised edition of The Jewish Caravan, considered
a classic, just appeared. Some other titles include
A Golden Treasury of Jewish Literature; Great
Ages and Ideas of the Jewish People; Psychiatry
j .::r{ "' and Religious Experience (with Dr. Louis Linn);
Human Values in Jewish Literature. Appearing
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out U.S., Canada; and in England, France, Ger-
many, Israel, Rhodesia and South Africa.
*Mar. 18, 7:15 p.m. at Hillel's Sabbath Service
"The Nature of the Intellectual's Commitment to Judaism."
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"Culture and Conscience in South Africa"
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