THE MICHIGAN 1lIATLYY THURSDAY, M THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, ~ Stresses Buddhism in Eastern Culture uages. One of the languages he "Buddhism is important today studied was Tibetan. "It was ecause historically it represents partly because of the Tibetan that he only foreign religion which I received the Fulbright Award in las been accepted in China and 1948 to study in China." urned into Chinese; of the three During that time, civil war had :reat world religions it has had broken out in China, the govern- he most coherent history and is ment collasped, and Peiping, the he oldest. city in which Link was studying, Prof. A. E. Link from the Far was under seige. "Several of the Eastern languages and literatures Fulbright students left before the tepartment discussed the trip he city fell, but five of us decided to vini make this summer to For- stay. nosa. "Two of us went to the univer- "Before the Second World War sity at Yenching. We saw the was interested in English Liter- Communists march in - it was ture," he said. "The Army-Air very interesting." Force sent me overseas on combat Link returned to the University nissions in Europe. Then we were of California in 1951 where he ransfered through the Middle studied in the language depart- East to India where I saw an en- ment and worked toward his PhD. irely new world. In 1957 he came to. the Univer- "Later I flew over the "Hump" sity as an assistant professor in nto China where I became in- Chinese. erested in Chinese as well as Fulbright Award ndian history. I began reading This year Link received another about Indian religions and phil- Fulbright Award. Late this sum- >sophy." mer he will travel to Formosa and At the end of the war in 1945, do research on Chinese Buddhism link went to the University of and philosophy. !alifornia, where he majored in "Buddhism," he explained, "or- Far Eastern history ana lang- iginated in India and spread through central Asia, picking up Vuleans Greek, Roman and Persian influ- ences. It came to China in the first century A.D. and then spread New embes toKorea and Japan." Ne Ivie> According to Link, Buddhism was as important to cultural de- Mighty Vulcan, holding court velopment in the East as Christ- on his forge, Mt. Aetna, sat em- ianity was in the West. >ittered at man's misuse of his "Buddhism was the unifying beloved fire. factor which brought two great Now come to him his faithful individual civilizations (China and followers, saying, "Mighty Vulcan, India) together. It brought to hear these candidates for admis- China knowledge of Indian med- sion to our sacred order." These iicne, logic, philosophy, art, andI being engineers, the only forms literary forms." of mankind the god would hear, Four Questions were forthwith Put to the test, and having passed the ordeal and Link has four basic questions to >roven their worthiness were ad- which he hopes to find answers nitted: during his year in Formosa. Bryan Whipple, Kenneth Dec, 1) Why did the Chinese accept )avid Gillanders, Andrew Mor- Buddhism to such an extent? row, Kenneth Warr, Ernest Meis- 2) Why didn't they accept sner, Barry Feinberg, Joseph Bris- Christianity when it came? son, James Wyman, John Gold- 3) Since the ideas were foreign, smith, Roger Barnes, Louis Senu- how did they modify those ideas? nas, Paul Herrick, Gerald Burgler, 4) Will a study of Chinese Bud- Prank Mabley. dhism give us any perspective of All are juniors. what might happen when foreign DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN ACROSS CAMPUS: English Department Plans State Writers' Conference BUDDHA ... and Eastern culture The eighth Michigan Writers' Conference will be held at the University May 19 and 20. The conference is held in con- junction with the announcement of the Hopwood Awards in crea- tive writing. The program will in- clude discussion workshops in fiction, poetry, and drama, and round-table and informal discus- sions. Anyone wishing to have a man- uscript read and criticized in an individual conference may submit it by May 15 to the Michigan Writers' Conference, Department of English, University of Michi- gan. A check, payable to the Uni- versity must accompany the man- uscript. I The fee for criticism of short stories and articles up to 6,000 words and for poetry is $5.00. Manuscripts of book length will be charged $10.00. The books can- not be criticized in detail, but will be read with a view to giving a criticism of over-all aspects. Union Air fright ... . Twenty seats are still available on the second plane of the Union's airflight to Europe. The plane, a DC7C, will leave June 16rfrom Idlewild airport, New York for London. It will return Sept. 9 from London to New York. Reservations may be obtained in the Union's Student Offices. Seats cost $300 minus a small re- bate. Teachers' Conference The thirtieth annual Confer- ence on Teacher Education will be held today at the University. The conference, which precedes the meetings of the Schoolmasters' Club, will center around the theme "Graduate Preparation in Teacher Education." The session will begin at 10 a.m. in the Union, with the general session being held at 2 p.m. de- voted' to the theme "Proposed Code Requirements for Graduate Study for Permanent Certificates." Political Issues . . "Nationalism Versus Commun- ism" will be the topics of a lecture at 7:30 p.m. today in the Natural Science Auditorium. Ferenc A. Vali, associate of the Center for International Affairs at Harvard, will be the speaker. Formerly, he was a professor of international law at the University of Budapest. Correction .. . Block M tickets will go on sale starting Tuesday instead of yes- terday as reported in yesterday's Daily. Journalism lecture .. . Frank Everly, Managing Editor of the Des Moines Register and Tribune will speak on the "Prom- ise of American Journalism" at 3 p.m. today in the Rackham Amphitheatre. Honor Society Taps Squires' Know all ye citizens that all true knights must go through squireship go by starlight Know all ye citizens that many squires train by starlight tobecome sires Know all ye citizens your obligations for.these men train to lead our nation Know all ye citizens by the Five Stars of SCABBARD AND BLADE. Squires these men are: Collier, C. A., Crouch, D. E., Ehman, L. H., Gnewuch, A. K., Heller, K. Z., Liv- ingston, D. P., MacDonald, B., McCallon, L., Miller, M. G., Pia- secki, R. L., Stoltz, S. J., Williams, D. S., Winer, P. D., Miller, J. -- THE FIVE STARS HAVE SHONE. influences such as Communism come into China today? To Translate Book On Formosa, Link hopes "to turn out a book, probably in two volumes, which will in part be concerned with the historical and sociological aspects of Buddhism. My aim is to translate the book Kao-seng Chuan (Lives of Emi- nent Monks), which was written in the sixth century A.D. by a Chinese monk called Hui-Chiao. It has never been translated be- fore." While he is working at the Na- tional Research Institute of China Link will be helped by Chinese scholars. He also will study what part of Buddhism is alive on For- mosa itself. "The study of Buddhism today may not be as important as it once was in China,rbut if we get an idea of Chinese religious ideals we may have a better site to view what's happening in China." !rd weather is fair, Graduates of Summer Session of 1959 and of February and June, 1960. Those eligible to partici- pate: If exercise must be held indoors, Graduates of Summer Session of 1959 and of June 1960. Tickets: For Yost Field House: Two to each prospective graduate, to be distributed from Tues., May 31, to 12:00 noon on Sat., June 11, at Cashier's Office, first floor, Ad. Building. For Stadium: No tickets necessary. Children notuadmitted unless accom- panied by adults. Academic Costume: Can be rented at Moe Sport Shop, N. University Ave., Ann Arbor. Assembly for Graduates: at 4:30 p.m. in area east of Stadium. Marshals will direct graduates to proper stations. If siren indicates (at intervals from 4:00 to 4:15 p.m.) that exercises are to be held in Yost Field House, graduates should go directly there and be seated by Marshals.! (Continued on Page 4) DIAL NO 8-6416 ENDING TONIGHT "Be smart-beat the television reruns of Meg's Marriage and see 'Mating Time'!" -Michigan Daily "Recommended - thoroughly charming!"-Time Magazine I I. C~nema quild ema ul I Great Expectations Thursday and Friday Allendale Studios, Inc. SCHOOL of BALLROOM DANCING Now registering for Sessions Adult and teen-age Group 7 Days, starting Thursday 123 E. Washington NO 2-6539 in TECHNICOLOR BILL (WEE GEOEDIE) TRAVERS FRIDAY "The Cousins" -i STARTING TODAY i DIAL NO 2-6264 Storm clouds blown over the sky have made afternoon into evening. The long grass on either side of the road bends with the wind's steady, rhyth- mic gusts. A lone young 'boy, leaning a bit against the whist- ing, moaning wind, walks earn- estly up the road, turns into the. fields and begins to climb a hill leading to the graveyard. The sky grows darker, sil- houetting the gravestones and gaunt trees at the top of the grade. The boy reaches the up- right slabs. The wind and the groaning of the rotted trunks and branches are all that in- terrupt the sound of his heavy breathing. Suddenly, a grotesque giant of a man, bald and scarred, hands in rattling chains, leaps from behind a gravestone and grabs the boy crying, "Keep still, you little devil, or I'll cut your throat." This is the opening scene of Great Expectations, English director David Lean's second great adaptation of a Dickens novel. Lean, whose credits include such brilliant and disparate works as Oliver Twist, Brief Encounter, Summertime and The Bridge on the River Kwai, is without peer at using physical surroundings to key a mood and atmosphere to a powerful thematic statement. In Summertime, the city of Venice became an integral part of the idealized love of an American secretary on the brink of middle age and an Italian shopkeeper, while the bridge over the River Kwai came to symbolize a standard of con- duct, a way of life, for an un- yielding British officer. The director, in Great Ex- pectations, uses 19th century London to epitomize the de- generacy of a society. It is seen as a city physically decaying and swarming with poor. The growing industrial machine, fed with thousands of workers, has used people and swept the human refuse into the gutters. It is a city of the unemployed, the hungry and the criminal - a city of slums and littered alley was. old jewels atd decayed satins, presiding over a rat - infested wedding cake. Yet, though decay is the ma- jor image of the picture, Lean does not allow the story to wal- low in it. He sensitively captures the warmth of the young love of the hero, portrayed by John Mill, and Miss Havisham's neice, played by the youthful, lovely Jean Simmons. And too, with a cast that boasts Alec Guinness, Robert Newton, Francis Sullivan and Martita Hunt, no film can fail to have a great.many comic mo- ments. The film is one of the great English pictures and ranks fa- vorably with any screen adap- tation of a classic. Of all Tennessee Williams' plays, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, showing Saturday and Sunday, would appear to be one of the least tractable to screen treat- ment. It is a play padded to three acts with action that calls for less, it is generously interlarded with subject matter taboo in Hollywood, and the dialogue, perhaps to compensate for the static nature of the plot, is over- vehement. Read through, however, the work reveals Williams' familiar virtues; a genuine concern for the plight of his characters; the heightening of one's sense of a familiar and basic human dilemma, the inability to com- municate; and the poetry of the lost and lonely that is Williams' particular appeal. This rather unpromising ma- terial was taken over and, with certain changes in emphasis, was made into a compelling movie. Vague, indecisive themes were cut and the action of the play paced to highlight its con- siderable dramatic and the- matic content. Elizabeth Taylor gives a fine rendering of the "Cat," driven to despair by her husband's coldness and her in-laws' pam- pering of the "no-neck mon- ster" children; and Paul New- man's guilt-ridden husband is a performance that makes con- vincing the despair of a young man whose promise seems shat- tered and who takes refuge in symbolic castration. Burl Ives OR I I AV ID