w Michigan Daily - Sunday, August 12, 1984 - Page 11
Humanities
endowment
lists books
(Continued from Page 10)
on the grounds that many high school
students are not equipped to handle
such sophisticated reading material.
"I don't like the idea at all," wrote
Harvard sociologist Daniel Bell. "It is
spurious and would only produce ersatz
culture." He said students should not be
taught individual great works, but
rather "how books or themes relate to
one another or speak to one another."
Robert Penn Warren, the novelist,
wrote that better-educated teachers,
not a better curriculum, are needed.
"If I am to judge from members of
school boards that I have known,"
Warren said, "I should doubt that one
man out of a hundred has read, in a
generation if ever, any of the titles
mentioned" in his list, which included
the Book of Genesis, Charles Darwin's
Origin of the Species and Theodore
Dreisler's an American Tragedy.
ssociated Press And Henry Steele Commager, the
Amherst College historian, said he
wasn't persuaded of any correlation
didhood home between particular readings and in-
Welsh mining telligence.
ot his humble "Modern political scientists read 10
did not attend times as many books, etc. of gover-
nment and politics as did Madison and
Hamilton, but they can't write the
Federalist Papers," Commager said.
"Lincoln's reading was more limited
than Wilson's but he did a better job."
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Mourning bells
Mourners for actor Richard Burton, who died last week at age 58, gather for a memorial service in his ch
in Pontrhydyfen, Wales yesterday. Burton died and was buried in Celigny, Switzerland, but his ties to this'
village ran very deep. One villager remembered Burton as "a very kind man. .. and he never forg
origins." Sally Burton, his fifth wife, and his daughters attended the memorial service. Elizabeth Taylor4
the service or the funeral due to concerns about excessive media coverage.-
Records
Streets of Fire
Soundtrack (MCA)
Remember when soundtracks were
once used to preserve filmscores
noteworthy enough that they stood on
their own? Now they're merely
marketing ploys for film promotion,
filled with pop songs that, if they get
any airplay, become quite effective and
very cheap advertising. The soun-
dtrack to Walter Hill's forgetable
Streets of Fire is another despicable bit
Pete Seeger
talks about
his singing
YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio (AP) -
Folk singer and activist Pete Seeger
says he's been surprised by the success
that some of his songs have enjoyed.
"I had sung 'Where Have All the
Flowers Gone' as part of a medley of
other short songs for about a year, and
then stopped singing it," Seeger
recalled recently from his Beacon,
N.Y., home. "One of the young people
heard it and added three verses about
soldiers and graves.
"My manager said, 'Pete, didn't you
write that song?' and I said 'Yeah,
about three years ago.' He said, 'Did
you ever copyright it?' and I said, 'No, I
guess I didn't.' He said, 'Well, you
ought to: the Kingston Trio has recor-
ded it.'
"Well, I got in touch with them and
they were very nice and said, 'Oh Pete,
we didn't know that was your song.
Sure, we'll take our name off of it.' I've
been pleasantly surprised at how that
song has kept on goin' around the
world," he said.
of pure corporate marketing strategy,
as bad and off the mark as the film.
Unable to secure the rights to the
Bruce Springsteen song which he
named the film after, Hill enlisted style
clone Jim Steinman (of Meatloaf fame)
to come up with a couple of loud
Springsteenian anthems for the film's
opening and closing songs. In between
these jewels are numbers penned by the
likes of Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks,
performed by anonymous session
musicians with no sou
Add to that mess
track by The Fixx (w
into the movie's clo
you get a good disp
oversized coaster.
Utterly unredeemir
tent, this is an album
as quickly and as qu
stores as the film th
from the theaters.
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