Seventy-Third Year - EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS "Where Opinions Are Free STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG., ANN ARBOR, MICH., PHONE NO 2-3241 Truth Will Prevail" Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in ad, reprints. r' 7i. 1 1' " . ! g"YYy b3 .4 r, ° a 1 k : y fT . :. t "4r r " .r2 'i" s.} y ±S o "'^K r" ' Fh "rsl ( . stir Ak x " ' a.,< < c r : ti,,, J 6 ,ax a"y : "< '' " d,; P? r" K' r rfs S l.. s °=t + C i _ q<''yc # 4 .:y, Yk r t i , r ..f ,r, "' ..S b. '7 5" "ij, t9x i.J tc'"u s i ii,{ - "+T Sr ~y5? o; ? 1f r k v 1 } +1 r " x P: 7 rtj c a . "< t '~ ra. 4 x3 ' 1' " S"a ...5 , ; t; Lt key.' 1' ? / '' : r rim } Y "rY , } } 'fX r . sua 3. 0;1 1. i r s . i, PMt Taq-C' 44t yy.. fa( ' ,. n. f A ayT'4 ; . ,, rr ,{, .s t t y.' ? 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As any English 350 lecturer will tell you, Shakespeare's language is fantastic: it can create daggers, storms, pity, horror, laughter- the whole range of human emo- tion and environment with ease. But it requires suspension of dis- belief to attain reality. The problem with the "Mac- beth" at the Campus is that belief cannot be suspended. The picture is so full of background - from genuine castles and vistavision hills to neatly-sculptured goblets and low-cut gowns-that the lan- guage can't begin to do its magic. * * * THE OVER - ABUNDANCE of detail isolates actor from aud- ience. The audience becomes self- conscious of the lines-the char- acters do not then move in har- mony with the action and back- ground of the film. The actors come to be pretty statues in front of a bizarre tapistry. A few of the more blatant violations that brought the house to razz-berries in the waning minutes: the nurse sounds like a politician rather than a frighten- ed girl; Macbeth drips tears of sorrow rather than showing the isolation from grief that is a pre- lude to the famous "Tomorrow" soliloquy; Macbeth dies at Mac- duff's hand, not in a forest, but after 1) symbolically having his crown fall off; 2) winding his way to the top of the castle where 3). his banner is symbolically chop- ped down and he 4) falls full- Hollywood fashion to his death- screaming all 60 feet of the way. - Shakespeare was a commercial playwright: 4hen he made his money he went home. Last night's "Macbeth" played to a full house and at*least, satisfied the owners. Shakespeare would have liked that. -George A. White "1 STUDENT GOVERNMENT: ASGUSA'-- What Lies Ahead? IQC at the Crossroads, URING THE PAST several weeks, pet- tiness, quibbling and blatant disre- gard for democratic procedures have' pre- vented the Interquadrangle Council from fulfilling its obligations to the men living in University residence halls. IQC is supposed to represent residence hall men to both the student body and the 'administration and to work with prob- lems and projects involving the several quadrangles. Yet, since the present exec- utive officers of IQC were elected at the end of January, the council has taken only one major action, the proposed es- tablishment of a house presidents' assem- bly. This step is entirely procedural in nature. Some contend that the nature of IQC dooms it to inefficiency. Others maintain that the council, when staffed with re- sponsible members, can indeed serve a useful purpose. At the moment it is im- possible to form a judgment on the ques- tion, for the ill-advised behavior of some IQC representatives would have prevent- ed action in the most effectively organized group. THE ISSUE that triggered the feud cur- rently stymying IQC is that of litera- ture distribution. The representatives of East Quadrangle proposed a change in ,current distribution regulations at the council's March 12 meeting. When it be- ,came apparent that their proposal was going to fail, they left the meeting, an- nouncing that they would boycott IQC. Without East Quad attendance, the coun- cil does not have the quorum necessary to carry on business. The representatives were acting accord- ing to a mandate from East Quad Coun- cil which stipulated that they participate only in council business advantageous to East Quad, until the body took positive action on the literature distribution is- sue.1 Since the boycott began, East Quad has returned to only one meeting at which constitutional revisions, the house presi- dents' assembly proposal and mailbox reg- ulations were considered. At that time,. the council decided to send this latter is- sue to committee for further considera- tion. No action has been taken on it since. WHETHER FAST QUAD is right about literature distribution is entirely ir- relevant. The point is that, by boycotting the council because it failed toact in ac- cordance with their wishes, the represen- tatives are disregarding the basic demo- cratic principle of majority rule. They are, in effect, saying to IQC and all the men represented by it that if the group refuses to play the game as East Quad wishes, they will pick up their marbles and go home. This attitude is destroying what- ever potential effectiveness IQC may have. IQC is no place for petty politics and parliamentary maneuvering. Representa- tivac ,',,,l yiPocC thAir ninionn in By JOHN BRYANT THE ASSOCIATED Student Gov- ernments of the United States of America, a new national stu- dent organization founded last weekend in St. Louis, has had a shaky start and faces a question- able future. However, despite this, the Uni- versity ought to keep a close watch on developments within the organization and offer it encour- agement in its attempt to estab- lish itself. ASGUSA is constituted as an apolitical organization of student governments designed to promote the exchanging of ideas between these governments. However, one immediate problem is whether ASGUSA will become merely a. conservative counterpart of the United States National Student Association. ASGUSA LEADERS say no. Wil- liam Feathergill of Vanderbilt University, who formulated the ASGUSA idea, asserts, "USNSA attempts to fill one need: that of -expressing student opinion.hOur group has no such goal. We are trying merely to improve the mem- ber schools through providing a medium for exchanging ideas about student government. The only possible reason USNSA mem- bers would not logically be able to join would be for financial reasons." However, the concept of ASG- USA as a conservative political or- ganization, or at least a potential one, is not easily dismissed. At the St. Louis meeting which drew up an interim constitution for the body, a row ensued among delegates about establishing a committee to discuss civil rights problems "from a non-political slant." -When this plan went down to defeat under a barrage of drawled- out "nays" from Southern dele- gates, the University of Illinois delegation walked out of the meet- ing and the Grinell College rep- resentative charged that the Southerners had voted according to their own political interests. MOST SOUTHERNERS denied the charge. However, the delegate from the University of Aikansas later admitted that politics had been a consideration in his vote. "If a civil rights committee were written into the constitution, I doubt that anyone on our Student Senate would approve it. We had to vote against it." If ASGUSA's leaders are sincere now in their claim to being apoli- tically inclined, there is always the possibility that political con- servatives may infiltrate the or- ganization in the future. With USNSA liberally oriented, conservatives may naturally be attracted to ASGUSA and could attempt to put the organization on a more political basis. Also the geographical distribution of the schools attending the St. Louis meeting was decidedly conserva- tive with nearly 40 per cent of Nothing but the Facts FROM THE WASHINGTON Post of March 7: "Saigon, March 6 (UPI) Viet- namese Chief of State Nguyen Khanh has been quietly carrying out a major shakeup in this coun- try's military command . .. to re- ward close supporters of his Jan. 30 coup. "Khanh's shakeup was disclosed on the eve of a new Saigon fact- finding visit by Defense Secretary McNamara. The reorganization was reported causing concern as the new Vietnamese chief of state had assured Ambassador Lodge there would be no major shakeup which could interfere with the war effort . . . almost all the new appointments have been made for political reasons ... "Qualified U.S. military observ- ers believe in some cases the new commanders are as competent as the ones they replaced. But in oth- er cases the military qualities of the appointees. are unproven, while in still others they are definitely inferior. The most prominent ex- ample of the third category is in the vital fourth army corps, which is responsible for the southern half of the Communist-dominated Me- kong delta." * * * FROM the Associated Press wire the day after McNamara's ar- rival: "Hoa, Hoa, March 9 (AP) . . . McNamara told newsmen that he feels there has been progress in South Viet Nam since his visit here in December. He credited Khanh's reorganization of the na- tion's leadership." --I. F. Stone's Weekly discussing how a national organ- ization would be run. Most dele- gates assumed that the problem would work itself out. ASGUSA President Lawrence Blankenship is fairly capable, and most of the delegates present were enthusiastic. * *' 4 THE PROBLEMS of ASGUA lie not in its principles but in threats to these principles. If it adheres to ARTIST'S GALLERY: Student Exhibit Seeks Religious Meaning its constitution, it could be a valuable organization. By working for strict adherence, the Univer- sity would be doing itself and other member schools a service. No final decision need yet be made. ASGUSA will probably not hold its first convention until late next fall. Until then the Univer- sity needs merely to keep its eye on the organization and see if it is living up to its potential. 'KEY LARGO' Huston Thriller Unites Braggadocio, Schmaltz JOHN HUSTON'S "Key Largo" (made in 1948) is an object lesson in how to extract the last drop of entertainment from a conven- tional cinematic thriller. There are really only two ingredients, suspense and character. The plot, which is more a situation than a narrative, employs that old -Agatha Christie device of isolating hero and heroine (Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall) in a remote hotel where a Florida hurricane throws them at the mercy of homicidal mobster, Edward G. Robinson, and his gang. An artifice of suspense, largely contrived but in part stemming naturally from situation, builds to a great climax. Bogey single- handedly routs his enemies; and returns to the tearful embraces of Lauren Bacall for a conclusion that unites braggadocio with schmaltz. What more could you ask for? APPARENTLY a great deal. For Huston and Richard Brooks, who together wrote the screenplay, attempted to raise their work beyond the trite art of thrillerdom with some thoughtful character analysis. To suggest the intricate cruelty of Edward G. Robinson's mobster, his brutality towards an alcoholic mistress (Claire Trevor won an Oscar in this part) is given a peculiarly insidious slant: "Sing for me," says Robinson to Miss Trevor. "No," she replies fearfully, ". don't make me." "I won't make you do anything," says Robinson, "but if you sing I'll give you a drink." Till now, he has ruthlessly forbidden her so much as a sip. So she sings, gropes eagerly for a glass, and . . . "No!" says her lover, "No drink. You were lousy." The Bogart character is less successful. The immediate heroic projection is there (as ever), the familiar drawl and half-smile, but it's little more than a very professional actor going through his paces. * * * * IN EVERY RESPECT except the photographic, this is one of Huston's poorest films. It smells of the studio; and the attempt to suggest atmosphere, or the hothouse Florida summer, is limited to potted palms and hat-waving, with a few non-integrated location shots for good measure. But it is a masterpiece of functional photography. The camera is always as close to (or as far from) the characters as continuity and situation permit. There are no artful art-film longshots or half- face close-ups, except in one or two cases. And here, the exception proves the rule. Practically the only longshot in the film is the opening aerial view of Key Largo and the causeway linking it to the mainland; this is a functional and classic cover-shot, setting down at a single gesture the peculiarity of geography which is to play such a crucial part in the plot. Similarly the only extreme close-ups of Edward G. Robinson, revealing every fold and ridge of that wonderfully evil face. Huston's camera work, in fact, is like a good suit. It is modest, attractive and superbly tailored. -Robin Duval rpIE EXHIBITION presently at the Artist's Gallery in the Nickels Arcade has been organized by the Ecumenical Campus Min- istry to encourage artists to ex- periment with the possibility of m a k i n g religious statements. While not all the works in the show can be called "religious" in any sense of the word, the idea behind the show points out cer- tain problems of the modern art- ist in relation to religion. Sinceour present society is bas- ically materialistic and secular, religion in the formal sense has been relegated to a small corner of our lives. But has religion in the sense of a deeply held set of values and attitudes about life, death, love and the meaning of these to the individual been as neglected as the Church? As far as art is concerned in this question, has it turned its in- terests and expression from deep spiritual considerations to more impersonal ones? Is the rise of formalist schools and Pop Art in- dicative of a turn to the less emo- tional and more intellectual or superficial aspects of life and a denial of the spiritual? Or is it a refusal to recognize the spiritual? THESE QUESTIONS require a profound analysis of the artist in relation to his society which is not within the scope of this small It denies him the use of a univer- sal vocabulary of forms which carry specific religious connota- tions. However, it opens up to him the opportunity of expressing his more personal attitudes in another universally (and inherently) com- prehended form. Jackson Pollack's works, for in- stance, carry a lyrical movement and sense of dynamic becoming which are so personal as to be holyto the artist. This is a re- ligious artist in the broadest sense, but not any less religious than Fra Angelico for all that. The similarity between Pollack and Angelico rests on the deeply felt and serious piety which both reveal in their art. HOW CAN one judge whether a work of art is religious or not, if it is abstract? This is a prob- lem which several people have tried to solve, but it requires that one consider the work of art on a plane higher than that of the intellectual aspects of composi- tion. There is no iconography per se in these works, but the combina- tion of sensual elements, the atti- tude ofthe artist expressed in his approach to the canvas, the colors, the application of the pig- ments, all these can convey a whole philosophy of life.nThe title of the work is usually-not the key to its character, as can be seen in several t works at the Artist's Gallery which would be as much at home inan exhibition of atheist art. That most of the works in the student exhibition lack the holy attitude of the artist toward his creation can be attributed to many things, among them the absence of a deeply felt attitude towards life whether from youthful inex- perience or from simple superfi- ciality of treatment. One problem in dealing with student art is the inexperience factor; these people have just not had enough training in technical skills or in life to be able to con- centrate on personal expression. However, the idea behind this ex- hibition and the control for qual- ity exercized by the judges, as well as the added incentive of a purchase prize, may well encour- age, on a limited basis, a new search for religious meanings through contemporary art. -Miriam Levin f i. i i {....:. ., among=