ar wa 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. (Continued from Page 1) 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. STUDENT DISCOUNTS AT ANN ARBOR STORES?j Cheryl Dembe DOES! VOTE SCOPE SGC Elections-Wednesday DIAL 662-6264 SHOWN AT 1:00 3:00-5:00-7:00 & 9:05 4. 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The current program schedule is: Sunday, March 20 SCHIPPERS, Conducting Rossini: Overture "La Gazza Ladra"; Coplond: Statements for Orchestra; Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole; Schumann: Symphony No. 2 Sunday, M-arch 27 SCHIPPERS, Conducting; VAN CLIBURN, Pianist Cornelius: Overture to "Barber of Baghdad"; Menotti: Apocalypse; MacDowell: Piano Concerto No. 2 ANN ARBOR FEDERAL SAVINGS and LIBERTY MUSIC SHOP l RZ rPIP j f 04 0 Jl -Y / I I 4 JAMES COBURN-LEE ].COBB GI[A OIAN.[DWARD MULHARE Poduced by SAIL DAVID"lDintedby DANIEL MANN Scceenplayby NAL fIMBERG and BEN STARR COLOR by DE LUXE-CINEMASCOPE 11 U, piI q DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN U The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of the Univer- sity of Michigan for which The Michigan Daily assumes no editor- ial responsibility. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3519 Adininistration Bldg. be- fore 2 p.m. of the' day' preceding' publication, and by 2 p.m. Friday for Saturday and Sunday. 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General Notices Graduate Students in English: Are in- vited-to- the- English Graduate Collo- juluin in the East Conference Room of Rackham Bldg., Mon., March 21, at 7:30 p.m. Shakespeare's early comedies and Byron's "The Bride of Abydos, Cain and The Giaour" will be discussed. 1964-1965 University of Michigan Bib- liography: If you wish your publica- tions for 1964-65 to be listed in the University Bibliography, please make certain your form is returned to the Editoial Office, 21' Cooley Bldg., by March 31. If, for some reason, you did, not receive a form thr'ough your de- partment, please call 764-4277. The 1963-64 Bibliography is now with the printer, and is expected to be dis- tributed by July 1966. Each head of a department or other unit will be sent two copies; faculty members may re- quest. individual copies, so long as the supply lasts, by calling 764-4277. Doctoral-Examination-,for Melvin Roy. 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A large collection of information on Europe 2. Three travel books at reduced prices 3. International Student l.D 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 this year will be: Woltson of Harvard; Values in ;s} Contemporary Literature and The Song of Songs: A New Translation. Has lectured at universities and forums through- 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." Mar. 19, 1 p m. at the Jewish Cultural School "The Jewish Community-and Cultural Survival and Growth" ' Mar. 20, 8 p.m. at Hillel, to Student Zionist Organization "Culture and Conscience in South Africa" Mar. 21, 10 a.m. at WUOM-An interview with Edwin Burrows, around "Jewish Novelists in Vogue" *Mar. 21, 8 p.m. at UGLI Multipurpose Room, for ORA "Is a Creative Jewish Culture Possible in America" Mar. 22, Noon, at Michigan Union, to Hillel Faculty Council "The Jewish Image in American Fiction" *Mar. 22, 4 p.m. at Eastern Mich. 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