Page Four THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday, February 15, 1976 CAMP TAMARACK TAMARACK'S in town only 160 left That's right! There are only 160 job openings left at Camp Tamarack, in Michigan's lower peninsula. Camp Tamarack is ,the summer camping program sponsored by the Detroit Jewish Community, and we have 3 camp sites in Michigan and Ontario. We have openings for counselors, specialists, super- visors, drivers, cooks, nurses. Contract season runs from about June 15 to August 22. Our recruiters will be interviewing for these jobs at Summer Placement, 3200 SAB on Thurs., Feb. 19. Register in person or by phone 763-4117. Applications available. BOOKS Naipaul's Guerrillas: Clever plot lacks degree of realism y -~~V VT ~ ~ j r, GUERRILLAS By paul, Knopf, N.Y., pp., $7.95 V.S. Nai- 1975, 248 the anatrfiln coopeave TONIGHT: FRIDAY, FEB. 13; SATURDAY, FEB. 14; & SUNDAY, FEB. 15 The Sixth Ann Arbor 8mm Film Festival SCHORL ING AUDITORIUM, School of Education 7&9 8mm filmmakers from all across the country will compete for $1,000 in cash and prizes given by an awards lury of localcinema experts for excellence in this growinc field. All shows the first two nights ore different. WINNERS SUNDAY NIGHT. $1.00 per show. School of Education Building located at corner of East University and Monroe AS RESCHEDULED Markley's Minority Affairs Council and University Activity Center present &IN C OQ + '' C By JIM HILL V.S. NAIPAUL is an exotic among novelists. Consider his Hindu ancestry, his boyhood spent in Trinidad and his Ox- ford education. Guerrillas, his ninth work of fiction, reinforces his reputation for highly skilled characterization-a skill which has catapulted him him to the top of the British literary world. In the space of a decade, he has won most of Britain's literary prizes and risen to the forefront among important writers. Guerrillas utilizes m a n y of the themes familiar to Naipaul's readers: it centers on emergin Caribbean countries, their fra- gile political structures, and the little futile dramas played out by people desiring power. On an unnamed island in the West Indies it is rumored that guerrillas are active. Continuing racial and political hatreds in addition to the worst drought in 40 years have made the climate tense and combustible. The hills almost smoke in the fierce heat, the fears and frus- trations of the people show in their pinched faces, and large carrion birds hover overhead in ominous numbers. In this smol- dering former British colony, Europeans like Peter Roche and his English mistress Jane are not welcome. Roche is a man with tenuous reasons for being on the island. His duties as a public relations agent for an old imperialist firm are vaguely described and his function as a liaison between his office and an agricultural experiment in the hills is of questionable usefulness. As a hero of South African resistance i MNMMMMMMU who has written a book on his For Jane it is the leaden reali- experiences, Roche is an at- zation that "she had come to a tractive man with few scruples place at the end of the world, about cashing in on his cele- to a place that had exhausted brity status. its possibilities." For Roche it is the quickening sense of futil- JANE, AN English journalist ity in his workand, ultimately, I and a kind of Third World in his life. "Every morning he groupie, is attracted to the po- thought: I've built my whole litical chic of championing the life on sand.' " Fear, growing oppressed and casually attaches out of the general decay and herself to Roche, "a man with dark forebodings, imparts the a vision." It becomes increas- feeling that the island is under ingly apparent t h a t neither a state of siege. Roche nor Jane has any vision to speak of; e is "45and NAIPAUL is a master of dark adrift," and she is clearly no landscaping; evil unreality better than those English wo- drifts through his chapters. He men she once despised as "em- renders the details, the flavors pty vessels waiting to be filled and scents of the island, not by a man." with the evenness and restraint! RT s first, attr ,to nrhP Iof an artist who understandsE ane is rnrsi aaacneu to nuune c yr...:." : vx, . ;r; ,r;.vr, '::::5:.;.%r a".yr ".}:ra.:r,.wa.":>,.}c;:.: :: x."."n:w::::.; >:?v.: i: .e""3;}:".S"".{Y"t:"Y.i:>.": {?,7:%"ar :n:'...' {y:;rr?}:"i::i}i:% ::::$:id%%=:":=3 ii: er of dark Iandscap- 'Naipaul is a masts ing: evil unreality drifts through his chap- ters. He renders the details, the flavors and scents of the islandW...with the high, horrific relish for the grotesque.' S I- .P .tti and then to Jimmy Ahmed, the proportion, but rather with a reputed guerrilla leader. But high, horrific relish for the gro- Jimmy is certainly no warrior- tz.sque. He is a bloodhound. Che scheming in the Bolivian drawn unerringly to the rot and jungles. As the supervisor of a wild man of the hills crouched Thrushcross Grange and a mod- estly elegant home, Jimmy is amidst primal filfth and be- suspended between two camps, wilderment. both of which claim a share of "Past the junked cars in the his sympathies: the R i d g e where Roche and Jane main- sunken fields, past the fac- tain their tidy little England tories, past more country home and the City (actually a settlements, t h e suburbs, sprawling slum) where the they approached the city, real guerrillas-the street gangs: the rubbish dump smoking -operate. Obsessed with the yellow-gray, the smoke un- idea of being a savior to the coiling slowly in the still island, Jimmy lives in the con-; fence post a black carrion stant fear of having his pre- corbeau s a t undisturbed; carious conceits tested. others on the ground hop- Fear, the rising dread in cir- ped about awkwardly, two cumstances, pervades the novel. feet at a time. - -I i i i i I 4 -i t { 4 t t Jane rolled up her win- dow to keep out the oily smoke and the deep dead smell." Tensions m o u n t. Something happens; exactly what, how- ever, remains unclear. But from the signals reaching Roche and Jane on the Ridge, one may suppose that the revolution has arrived. A gang leader has been killed and martyred; Jim- my is in the streets trying to exercise his doubtful sway as a leader; American helicopter gunships move-in to protect capitalist-bauxite i n t e r e s t s; Ridge residents hunker-down for the worst. Something has occur- red of major consequence po- litically, but the signals, so spo- radic and mysterious, never coalesce into the expected up- heaval. Tensions expire some- what and life gose on. The climax is reserved for the. end -of the book and is far more vivid than the vague events transpiring in the city. Jane meets her lover Jimmy for a! farewell tryst. What happens bears all of the calm menace and c h i I I i n g explicitness of Rojack's performance in An; American Dream; with aston- ishing ease the act is completed and life returns to its suspended sinister quality. . 1 ]FIH1F IURNING .1 And what if the little girl playingwh d with her dol r suddenly feels it watching her, the eyes alive like the eyes of the fish mother sliced open on the kitchen counter? Does she continue her play in that dark basement, that stillness like a bicycle wheel spinning in air after the rider has fallen off? Or does she turn away to the daylight of hungry dogs and other children? -Lawrence Russ Lawrence Russ is a law student and a three-time Hopwood Award-winner in poetry. - Music therapy help S mentally ill patients (Continued from Page 3) and then not until 1944. Today benefit from the therapy. about 30 post-secondary schools PICKET OUTLINED A typical offer a major in music therapy, session she might hold with which combines rigorous study a small group of girls aged 10 in education, psychology, sociol- and 11 ogy, and of course, music. Be- "We start with about fifteen fore becoming a registered mu- minutes of movement. At a sic therapist, the student must given cue, the youngsters raise also complete a six-month in- or lower their bodies to corres- ternship. ON WEDNESDAY 3-5 p.m. & 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free instructions FOR pocket billiards WITH OTHER SPECtAL GuESl eERFORMERS nWatching TV again tonight? took at CHANGIN' CHANNELS SEE PAGE 3 IN SATURDAY'S PAPER - 4*r gi ii I r I PAINTING OUT OF THE NATURE OF COLOR A new approach to water-color paintinq which takes its start from the nature of color itself. Beginning Course for Adults TIME: Thursdays 2-4 p.m., begins February 19 FEE: 10 sessions $40, students $25 Course for Children, Age 10-12 TIME: Saturdays 8:45-10 am., beqins February 21 FEE: 10 sessions $35 Course for Children, Age 6-9 TIME: Saturdays 2-3:30 p'm., begins February 21 FEE: 10 sessions $35 MATERIALS ARE INCLUDED IN THE FEES For information call 662-9652 RUDOLF STEINER INSTITUTE 1923 Geddes Ave., Ann Arbor NAIPAUL has in Guerrillas pond with the notes their ther- A LL THE therapists at the created a tight, suspenseful apist is playing. This helps in University facilities were narrative involving people and discrimination of pitch and'profesilmsciansaoe scenes he knows thoroughly. they're doing it rather thanprfsinlmicastoe The reader, though untrained in being told about it. Next, each pont in theircareers. A couple Caribbean flora, fauna and po- child spends another 15 minutes of years ago, for instance, a litical intrigue, moves quickly developing her skills on the re- bar patron could have enjoyed through the book with rising in- corder. We've just started read- NPItherapist John Chamber- terest and gathering expecta- ing music" the 27-year-old in sigig soulful Steve Won- tions. However, the book still ig siys the 27-year-old der ballads in the Holiday Inn I aae ofl oehtsotPickett says with a broad smile. manages to fall somewhat short Finally the kids combine their as a member of the "Sweet of its mark. Despite the sus- - Maya" jazz band. But he, like skills in a brief jam session. Ma"jazbn.Bthlk penseful atmosphere and skillful sk'Ourcarcan provide s uc- the others, abandoned his Icharacterizations, the n o v e 1 "Our cr a rvd tu~ h tes bnoe i chaactriztiosthen oy e1 trefor the person's life after search for stardom. lacks some degree of believabil- tr o h esnslf fe it. Naipaul has filled his island they get out of the hospital," "During free time," he says with guerrillas - both elusive Whiting notes, adding that with barely contained excite- and deadly-but they are too m a n y youngsters who leave ment, "I might go into the well camouflaged to impart the CPH after undergoing musical music room and start playing a necessary degree of realism. therapy go on to play in their song on the piano or singing. Nevertheless, Guerrillas is still school bands or take additional Before you know it, people will capable of drawing the reader lessons. just start wandering in - staff into its sinister, tense atmos-! Music has long been used as and patients - and join in ... phere and one is almost willing: a soothing agent for the sick. singing or clapping hands." to suspend disbelief in order to But Michigan State University Thanks to Chamberlin's in- take a fictional trip through this was the first college to offer structions, one young patient exotic island. a degree in music therapy - mastered the bass guitar and <<=:: =>o<=:>,a also learned something infinite- ly more valuable: to "express F 'himself in a positive way, when ..rA , E) before he showed no interest or feeling in anything." But, DAYTONA BEACH-March 6-13 j Chamberlin notes that kind of individual attention is a some- 1. Bus Transportation & Lodging time thing at NPI. "If I could c c see a patient five days a week, c only $129.00 perhaps ' could do more ..'" 6 days, oceanfront room with color T.V., 2 pools, he says with resigned tones, his air conditioning and more. hands underscoring the rhyth- 11. 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