Sunday, October 28, 1973 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Five 1 History at a snail's grand pace i ' UNC-DRYM~ PES (Continued from Page 4) cheer, happiness. Salvation is a gift; life is' one. fit of purring t after another. The group is a placid surface of enthusiasm and positivity. God is on the-hori- zon. Good health and eternal life perch securely upon a magic mountain of insurance policies, properties, bonds, and so on to surfeit. The fragmentary nature of this review offers tribute to the com- plexity of Grass's writing. The snailbook proliferates with ap- parently neat oppositions that be- come eccentric, with overtly loose ends that explode or freeze or turn purple on closer atten- tion. The last chapter is a great piece on Durer's Melencholia I; art criticism become social cri- ticism become art itself. It is also a summation of the book. Gunter Grass's life was threatened dur- ing the campaign in 1969.. Possibly so you will not forget, maybe so you will remember, that I am in between you and the snailbook, I'll make a purple exit. Hypothetically now. Imagine this "creature", a lady, a girl, a bitch, who in herahead-to-toe en- tirety, manifests a triple wham- my, a wipe-out, an annihilation so ruinous to my mortal soul, my will-to-live, yea my ability to stand on my feet, that were she to walk up to me, stick a ten inch blade into my stomach, twist it perhaps giggling as if it were all a joke, I would be excruciat- mgly overjoyed because I died with her near. Now were this creature the case - even though one might consider my helpless- ness, my utter inability to resist her, less than rational - still you would hardly expect to hear me complain of her small breasts, would you? Certainly my tolerance for Gun- ter Grass is not so inflated. Yet the extravagance and incongruity of the above metaphor may help convince you-the-reader of the depth of- my reluctance to say anything negative about Gunter Grass. Not solely out of gener- osity and honesty, but also out of fear and respect: a pygmy does best to keep his teeth free of a giant's ankles. So, in the same spirits mightacomplain of small breasts on that 25 ton creature above, I say: GUNTER GRASS UNFAIR TO HEGEL!!!!. At least 30 snide remarks which could hardly be taken to refer to Hegel were his name not used! I forgive myself and hope you too forgive me, for this onebarb at Grass. Hegel is an old buddy, Grass is no lady, small breasts are not the issue. Bl ESIDES Georg himself prob- ably would have enjoyed Grass's Snail Diary, which is surely in sympathy with this most profound observation of He- gel: "Each consciousness aims ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH FACULTY & GRADS BRUNCH OPEN TO EVERYONE at the death and destruction of w the other." This century's tally of human dead at the hands of humans: 105,000,000. I do believe that i a bit of death and de- struction, eh? And;for Dooms- day's sake, don't ask me howH that damn lady snuck in there. THIS Jock Henderson is a local eclectic whose range extends between bas- BOY ketball, phenomenology and fiction, LUIS BUNUEL'S L'AGE D'OR This 1930 classic has a reputation-upon its very brief initial release, it caused riots all over Europe and became the world's hardest movie to see. The reason is Bunuel's anarchist viewpoint. SHORT: UN CHIEN D'ANDALOU. BUNUEL & DALI MON.: BERGMAN'S THE SEVENTH SEAL4 TUES.: THE BLACK CAT-KARLOFF & LUGOSI & 3 BETTY BOOP SHORTS CINEMA ARCHITECTURE AUD. V U I LDTonight at 7 and 9:05 . Adm. $ NEW WORLD FILM COOP presents A HALLOWEEN DREAM Alice In *This bizarre rendition of the *. Lewis Carroll classic, patterned t after the Tenniel drawings features such intrguing cast 'op, " ' >ing as G a r y Cooper as the +roducedbWhite Knight, Cory Grant as i * WR-MYSTERIES the Mock Turtle, Edward Ev- OF THE ORGANISM erett Horton as the Mad Hat- ter, and Jack Ookie and Ros- * Brilliantly original coe Karns as Tweedledum and 4( * with gleeful Tweedlede.e. W.C. Fields plays irreverance. -N Humpty-Dumpty, and delivers some s u p e r b in - character * Satanicaly funny. readings of the authors non- * A picture of sense verse. blazing originality. Must be seen. WED. & THURS., Oct. 31, Nov. 1 TUES. only, Oct. 30 *' ALSO THURS.: Vanessa Redgrave in Chekov's THE SEAGULL ?*'***'****kk***************'*************1** * LEONARD BERNSTEIN Is Coming To Town All $2.501 Seats reserved Avail Now- Michigan Union 11-5:30 p.rri World Hdqtrs. Records Discount Records on South U " " Cornell University-Graduate School of Business & Public Administration " University of Santa Clara (Calif.)-Law School Held in Michigan League, Conference Rm. No. 4 Coming up Nov. 7-BURGER KING CORP.; University of Chi- cago-Graduate School Planning t Placement 764-7460 I-. -5d F M I Son Francisco Mine Troupe Wed., Nov. 14 Power Center 8:30 p.m. CINEMAY Il--TONIGHT ONLY SUNDAY FRENCH CINEMA GEORGE ROUQU I ER'S FARREBIQUE 194'6 A highly praised yet rarely seen portrayal of French rural life in a most natural state, before it has become an appendage to "civilization." Rouquier s p en t one year filming a single farm family and their environs....i.it is one of the finer works in the whole great line of rural art which extends backward through Van Gogh and Brueghel . . ." James Agee. Subtitled. aud. a angell hall Oct. 28 7:00'& 9:00 $1.00 NEXT WEEKEND: LAWRENCE OF ARABIA and Jean-Luc Godard's CONTEMPT WOMEN'S CAREER OPPORTUNITIES LUNCH HOUR DISCUSSIONS The second in a series of informal group sessions. C o m e hear represntatives from various employers and graduate/professional schools discuss their opportunities for women. All women welcome. Feel free to bring your lunch. SPONSORED BY CAREER TUES., OCT. 30-12 noon I GOOD MEETIN' AND GOOD EATIN' BAGELS-LOX-N.Y. TIMES SPEAKER: Professor Arthur Mendel History Department 11 A.M. SUN., OCT. 28 y i'. ;, i' pen otter ien 'v of 00d !I TODAY at3 p.m. &8 p.m. Two Performances Sunday WHAT IF YOU ARE WRONG? WHAT THEN WILL YOU HAVE DONE TO ISRAEL? AND TO YOUR OWN CONSCIENCE? I am writing this letter from Israel after a 4 months s t a y as a New Immigrant and Professor of the Hebrew University, as a religious agnostic, a socialist of long standing and as an active (twice imprisoned) opponent of the kind of imperialist war that was waged in Viet Nam. I am writing this letter to the members of the academic and intellectual community who stand at the Political Left and who have begun to equate the position of Israel to that of the United States in Viet Nam and worse and to act politically on that supposition. What I have seen in these 4 months has confirmed my beliefs. Israel IS a Democratic State which is acting responsibly and humanely to improve the conditions of its disadvantaged citizens, particularly among the Sephardic Jews and Arabs. It IS the fitting repository of an intellectual, spiritual and ethnic tradition that has remained viable for thousands of years and within the space of one century produced a Marx, a Freud, and an Einstein. It IS forging unbreakable links with the people of the occupied territories-Gaza and the West Bank-and with Jordan itself, through en- couragement of industry and trade, training in scientific agricultural m e t h o d s, organization of trade unions, and encouragement of unrestricted travel throughout territories and across the Jor- dan River. These relationships have already sparked a true revolution among the Arabs-in eco- nomic status, in the liberation of women, in the enlargement of economic a n d cultural horizons. Given the gift of Peace, they would inevitably lead to a harmonious community. But now we are at war. The governments of Israel and Syria played an elaborate charade with the Russians. They mobilized in October of 1973 just as they had mobilized in June of 1967 and as they were ready to attack then, they were ready now and did attack. We are at war against the governments of 100 million Arabs backed by the Russian Monolith. On the side lines sit several cynical European governments who watch the ticker tape of oil prices and equally cynical African governments who trade Jewish lives for votes in the U.N. We say that the leaders of Egypt and Syria, Iraq and Libya, Algeria and Saudia Arabia really do want to dismember Israel,* wipe its name from the roster of nations, kill its people and scatter the survivors-as Jews have been killed and scattered through the centuries. We say that they mean every word of their rhetoric. WHAT IF WE ARE RIGHT AND YOU ARE WRONG? ii T Edward Hombteton, Michael Montel, Manoging 0irectors Horold Pric, te phen PorterArtstic Directors Sun., Oct. Sun., Oct. 28-3 28-8 p.m. p.m. SOPH SHOW '73 presents RACHEL JOHN ROBERTS MMARTIN by FRIEDRICH DUERRENMATT adopted by MAURICF VALENCY WONDERFUL I i ,.. ..