t FACE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1982 r4 Visits League NSA REFERENDUM: Young Conservatives SInvade' Oklahoma (Continued from Page 1) had not warned them with a "beeper" tone, he had acted il- legally. They reported the episode to the district attorney in Oklahoma City and the Federal Bureau of Investi- gation. They said they had not heard since from the YAF officers. For two weeks before this, Stan- ley and Cotter had addressed Ro- tary Clubs and parent groups in Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Muskogee and other communities, some ex- tremely right-wing. Majority Opinion According to reports, they in- sinuated not only that the NSA did not represent the majority of student opinion in the country, but also that it was a Communist front, subversive group. As a result a number of parents called or wrote students and the university administration to pro- test against the NSA. On the day of the referendum, according to the student senate president and others who were ob- servers at the polls, "the pledges were marching down in blocs say- ing 'NSA is the organization that's communitic, isn't it?'" Students who attempted to find the reasons for this attitude were usually told: "Well, everybody said it was communitsic. You can't vote 'yes' for NSA." The vote was the largest cast in the history of the unversity. NSA Loses The NSA lost, 3 to 1. This is one university and the case is etxreme. But around the country, many moderate and young conservatives are troubled about YAF tactics. The strongest criticisms come from conservatives who have seen the group operate locally, or mid- dle-roaders and liberals who have witnessed YAF actions at student conventions. IN THE GARDEN-Actor George Montgomery, currently appear- ing in the Drama Season production of "Toys in the Attic," admires a statue in the League's newly-opened Garden Cafe. Montgomery's production will continue through Saturday at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. ARTS AND LETTERS: Hines Notes Need for Operas in English. Many of the 1,000 students who attended the NSA congress at Madison, Wis., last year were dis- mayed by YAF members. "They didn't convince, they alienated," said Nancy Walrath, a moderate who was editor this year of The Oklahoma Daily. "They'd jump , p and make inflammatory speeches. You could feel the whole congress move to the left." Left-Wing Tactics Adult observers suggested the techniques of YAF resemble the left-wing student tactics of the Thirties. Conservative students at last year's congress called the YAF'ers "noisy," '"disruptive," and "un- derhanded." They said some "be- lieved the end justified the means" and mentioned a front group that the YAF had set up at the con- gress. This was the Committee for a Responsible National Students Or- thousands of mimeographed sheets ganization. Letterheads on the turned out by the committee bore th YAF national address. On some campuses a single YAP personality has become the center of controversy. Such is the case at Harvard. Howard Phillips, New England director of the group, was president of the small inef- fective Student Council last year. According to students and mem- bers of the administration, Phil- lips used his office to tell the world that Harvard had "gone conservative" by electing a mem- ber of YAF as president of the student body. Spurred Campaign "The students' wrath was so great that, in a referendum last fall, they abolished the group he represented and the office he held," said Frederic Ballard Jr., a liberal who is editor of The Har- vard Crimson. That newspaper spurred the campaign against Phillips. - Elsewhere, criticism has come from within Jim Dannenbaum, a Littlewood Plans 'Mathematics Talky gentle boy who heads the group at the University of Texas said he wants:i to ask its national chair- man at Yale: "Send us more speakers, more materials, rather than arouse. Give us less noise. Very little good ever comes from rallies or rabble- rousing on the left, right, or middle." Conservative Journal Insight and Outlook, the Uni- versity of Wisconsin's conserva- tive journal, criticized YAP re- cently as "mimeocracy-bureau- cracy byr mimeograph." It said: Picketing may be fun, marching may be fun, torchlight rallies may be fun, but if the battle is one of ideas, what is the idea of all this?" The journal maintained: "Those colleges where there are active conservative groups have not, by and large, gained -them from YAF. The conservatives have gathered around separate and lo- cal traditions, separate and local colleges. "What the YAF promises, is the adoption of the liberal methods of the Thirties and before to destroy what those methods brought about." Voice To Hear Peace Plans Prof. Seymour Melman of Co- lumbia University will speak at the . third Voice Political Party Symposium on the Arms Race at 7:30 p.m. today in the Multi- purpose Room of the UGLI. His talk will be about his plan for United States initiatives for peace in the cold war., Prof. Melman is from the in- dustrial engineering department at Columbia and has worked with the Institute of War and Peace Studies. ORGANIZATION NOTICES R-71 Leadership Experience Qx Hard Working Fx -Yakisikli A4 momollliin VOTE FAZIL. A. AYDINMAKINE for ISA President fop Y oui'en J By MARJORIE BRAHMS "When I sing well, it is God singing, and when I am singing poorly, it is because I am suppres- sing Him," Jerome Hines, baritone with the Metropolitan Opera and soloist at the recent May Festival, said. Hines, who sang excerpts from Moussorsky's opera "Boris God- unov," is presently revising an opera of his own. The opera, now performed as a unit, but actually The Arab Club Presents THE PALESTINE QUESTION FRIDAY, May 18, 1962 Multipurpose Room. UGLI three operas, is called "The Life of Christ." It depicts the three sections of His life: "I am the Way," from the baptism to the Sermon onrthe Mount, "I am the Truth," from the Sermon to the ressurection of Lazarus, and "I am the Life," from Palm Sunday through the ressurection of Christ. Simple Structure The opera requires a company of 60 to 80 people and accompani- ment of seven instruments. Be- cause of its simple structure, the opera is easy to rewrite and per- fect, Hines noted. Among its 38 performances seen by 5000 people, "The Life of Christ" has been to Atlanta, Ga. "They integrated the balcony there so more people could see it," Hines said. Discussing what makes an ar- tistic genius, Hines said that "much latent genuis has been brought into being through nero- ticism, being close to insanity and out of step with humanity." Musical Genius The great musical genius of our time in America is yet to come, Hinesasaid. He explained the di- lemma by citing the mediocrity of all things in America and the idea Americans have of conform- ing. Hines sees the direction of American music to be towards singing operas in English. "If this is not done, opera will continue to be a white elephant. It should not, be a mystery nor an inner sanc- tumn," he said. There should be a standard translation for all opera com- panies, Hines noted. He suggested the United States begin an In- ternational opera showcase which would performoperas in the ori- ginal language while the rest of the country would use translated versions. West Germany Hines cited West Germany as a country in which opera flour- ishes. They operate eleven months a year with 65 companies. This is possible because they perform in their own language. However, West Germany still needs subsidy, Hines commented. He favors having subsidy in the United States because "art is edu- cational. The state pays for the education of our children and higher art forms should come under the same category. "Europe is much more prolific than we are in the arts and their art is mainly under subsidy," he noted. Search for Originality Hines sees much modern music as a "great search for originality," essentially purposeless except for seeking originality. ILEAG UE IGARIDEN CAFIE Refreshments available FRESH FRUIT POTATO CHIPS COOKIES CANDY COKE MACHINE ICE CREAM *At the main desk 1. ::' DIAL 5-6290 SHOWS AT 2:00 - 5:10- 8:30 s Np (Continuous) Prof. J. E. Littlewood of Cam- bridge University will speak on mathematics at Cambridge from 1860-1960 at 4 p.m. today in Aud C. The lecture is sponsored by the mathematics department. 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Harriet Anderson is spellbinding!" -Life Magazine ACADEMY AWARD BEST FOREIGN FILM OF THE YEAR I Tennessee w iltams, the autror oy uac on a tioot, t& o Richard Brooks, the writer-director of "Elmer Gantry" PETR ,Pandro S. Berman, the producer of "Butterfield 8" Metro Goldwyn PAUL NEWMAN Mayer GPrsents ERALDINE PAGE and Based on thePlay 5 byTENNESSEE WILLIAMS MARY He After their performancel most on the Diag use mneys at the r 0.. Irv WI Few films have had such a4 stunning critical and popular success as the original Blue Angel. The story of a repressed high school teacher who tries to protect his pupils from the enticeipents of a night-club singer, only to fall a victim to her flinty charms, became, in Josef von Stenberg's director- ial hands, an unforgettable story of personal degradation. Even in the less consequential films he has directed, -von Sternberg has always been noted for his pictorial talent, his ab ility to frame a film image that meets demanding esthetic standards. In The Blue Angel, this talent is at its peak: the brutality of stage and back- stage life in routines catering to the grossness of the lower middle class is rendered with the most refined .precision. It is like a German ToUlouse- Lautrec come to life. Emil Jan- nings is characteristically pow- erful as the middle-aged Pur- itan whose rebellion against his barren life leads to public cuckoldry and humiliation. Marlene Dietrich, singing her sultry numbers seated back- wards in a chair, is an in- effaceable image of the sex- machine, not at all wicked, just as indifferent as a stone. Those of the public who were subjected to the awkward, mawkish, and incredible re- make of The Blue Angel two -1-{~ib ® tari" n~nrc edies: Cuckoo Waltz-a short comis satire shown last year (and of all our shorts the one which has been most request- ed); Pow Wow-a candid cam- era expose of the comic foibles of a university band preparing its marching program for the week-end game; and a Buster Keaton short. This is one of the very few Keaton shorts available for public showing. In the years before television finally killed it, the Hollywood "B" picture was a valuable training ground for young cin- ematic talents. Made on a low budget, intended merely to fill the bottom half of a double featrre, the unheralded, un- pretentious "B" picture often revealed greater vitality, and imagination than the major productions to which it dcted as a curtain raiser. Of the Cirectors who served their apprenticeships making "B" pi~tures, one of the most eminent is Robert Wise, winner of thi's years Academy Award for West Side Story. In the middle forties Wise directed a series of outstanding horror films for Val Lewton, one of the :1ost inventive of "B" picture producers. The Body Snatchers is one of the most successful products of the Lewton-Wise colaboration. Based on ~ a story by Robert Lots Stevenson, the film deals with the relationship between an upright nineteenth century doctor (Henry Daniell) and the "resurrectionist" or grave rob- ber (Boris Karloff) on whom 'I 11 I -