Till",!C1iIGAN T)AILY W O RLDMso 0F BOOKS L E IS Depicts America~n Political Scene In Racy Satire . . , 3 ' i ! IT CAN'T Ht I'T',--- a , MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL, the course cf the play in one form! by T. S. Eliot, Harcourt, Brace, & Co., or another. $1.25. It is tre that there are times ~y Cr~ ~ Lew~is. Doibladay By JOE EE E DAVIS {C:; 'it ( fho m-i I)cpartineut) boar...inii ,_ l he cuffrer:cc 1; ea h:ll 'a;4i>?and the Liberal ve sn, ; t,~ iEtll~ ct' rw ans. u z ;.zzc.. 4ta .,A.LVJUO.zae,) I T'lIO Mrxjst IThuks 111'ii(O,,is orf«a !Thomas domina ;es;the a.{t u ibaa1yo itcyta otaP with a sure hand. The chorus too is oh fhsoyta aiuae ihasr adnt a i 'llosrabtene° n ocientieatind ointieanlcao<1 only serving an integral part in the nomticenive an 4poitiasn action but also complementing it by utrlpeomn.T i,1 comment. Likewise, Eliot has with ea l nt) C'),b le wi.,th . e woldeis heeoinieY-:cCaiasmunderstanding and sympathy pre- LeconessmefCitlmi- setdthe parts of the Tempters in .Iiiid " Ounlite agonyof hin ho- the first scene. In the last scene, "uion' hd" e maitais, isothe sek however, the character of the four uiascis," hetindass the sulidal Knights is open to question, I be- 'o 7 sdfnda h ucia liee. ereElit hs file toseepolitical expedient to wthich Capital- thoe.rsieoHere etioasnaldTom- se mresorts in a last hysterical, post-" th'sitrid ooeobesion,t andyThorn-democratic effort at self-preservation.j as'sg vito ryis tooe.obviustoeagsaRevolutionary activity to hasten the, thllinto rn re.ieetering oiening of Communism, the economic wel ito hepart of the Tempters, Eliot accepts too readily the defeat system which must by the Marxist' of the Knights, and funks their char- logic of history eventually succeed aetr i dong o, ailng husto ndCapitalism. offers, he feels, the only his play with perfect aplomb, effcie of sitio aaistth1mn And I think our final opinion of the gace of Facimandciheneedtheditonly attitude expressed by the play will hoeo -n iiie rdtos parallel our criticism of the Knights,. 'The Liberal, on the other hand.: for in both cases Eliot's answer is tihinks in terms of a philosophy el" his- . too simple. It may be that the solu- tcry that postulates the emei Bence1 tion of a religious problem is the work of political and cultural phaenomnena of generations, but to say, as is im- by the less materialistic process oft plied in this play, that all our social psychological, ideological, and insti- problems begin and end in the re- tuMtional evolution. To him, the main{ li'goius problem is rather too easy a trouble with the world is that the po- jump to a conclusion. , itical system of Democracy, with its - ___-- .-- . ideals of :freedom and individualism, its cultural heritage of the humane and critical spirit- the hard-wonl oictoriec of cen turies of struggle - is 9 Lnin ''catcsuaed by a revival of neo-f in~lieldoespotism and barbarism. E RSi rf of this con tention he pointsI: othe lino of Fascism in Italy and 1_' a many and of Communismn in Rus-I C. ;i. Whal ever may be the economi ff~e ences between these system'c: I oners, Engravers Engineering hey hive a fundamn tal similaiy aents, Student Books and he believes, in their political methods, All Kinds and cultural results. The only hope1 for civilization, he feels, lies in Tare- 1 FAT E STREET venting Democracy from spawning!1 f;ascisnij and at the same time in re-31 sisting the ambiguous blandishments 1 See ! of Communism. r111 SeeSo organic is the historical processc >ha.t the inability of Marxists and{ f '_;Liberals to a ,i cc(let alone the in-1 ability of each to agree among them-! res T ilesseclves) adds considerably to the world; rrthey are endeavoring to diag-t , nase. in its effort t self-preserva- 1 S~~ l t r ston, Capitalism resorts to Liberalism. a- well as to Fascism. And Liberals .aue placed in the rather embarrassinga " r ,position of bein mi-taken for Fascists It. ' N ~~by Conmmunists and for Communists c by Capitalists, 2,50 Endcavoring in if Can't Hai> p In 3.0 le- od o oiis, a_2.50 he has done for other aspe cts of the t 2.50 ,antemporary American scene, Lewis FOREVER...... 2.50 lea 'he acuteness to direct his satire!1 THE OOTHLLS .00 against Fascismi, as the more immne-1 d> KO manifestation of world chaos inu Il BRONES .50 lha ni'ed States. Avoiding here, ass 2.75 cwhere, the Marxist point of view2 S2.50 as a ftundamnental satirical perspective, ADS....... 3.00 h cham-zpions Liberalism and all that it mplesAlthough indulging in of - Yaura inconsistent lip-set vice to .x h.niin he su:-bjects it to : uffi-' ;.75 saiten inoi satire11to maike (lear that 1 w011d hay- 1-ndered hWn h1vue. i x The? -'ly ccntral story ,in the novel, however is not that ofBa ndhi. ~ gni~i7 :~Corp LStte, but that of Dairema's ~ Icsupand the group of car acters - 4c;. dit y related to himn. Thzis s1 ory ;Vrvcs to intens-ify the satiire on Fas- ci. mt and to define Lewis' Liberal c cic do A Vermont small-town editor, .~ .~ .Ai his sixties, with a tonic skepticism, -wxhimsical humaniaty, and a stub- Sborn faith in Democracy, Doremus is t-5 5' itred out of his passive, detached, ciical submission to the Cor-po State . ~ by the terrorism and shennitgans ofa its Chief, its yes-men, and its gang- ft seers. His editorial protest results in .his arrest and discipline, the firing- squad murder of his son-in-law, and ' p zersistent persecution of him and his .__ . family by their ex-hired man, who has -Courte',y Ann Arbor Dadly Ne -'. become an M.M. official. Unable to SINU,AII i LEIS cscape to Canada, Dor emus carries onl -- - - - ---, an underground propaganda cam- he regat ds it as anothzer r-epressive! paign for Democracy that is direc ted jProiit Ial menace to the freedom that hem Canada by the Republican ex- 7 osl nyude-Dmcay h candidate for president. Arrested for sped tacle of the author of Main Str Ft this subversive activity, he is court- andBbbt defending conformity to maitialed and brutally maltreated at: thfie tradi~ nal American political the headquarters of the Corpo Dis- status qu,,o should not surprise anyone Itr'ict Commissioner on the Dartmouth. who has followed the intellectual de- j campun s, an d is thenhr relegated ta velopment of many of the major pro- cnetaincmwe- ewt phets of the Nineteen Twenties since nest05s1and undergoes incredible suf- the beginning of the Nineteen This-I fer ing and degradation. Escaping as1 ties.I a result of the efforts of his mistress, I erinda Pike, and his daughter. Sissy, IOne main aspect of the indictment'~fest aaa ofiswt h of Fascism in this novel is the story Republicani ex-candidlate for presi- of the dictatorship of Berzelius Win- dent, and retur-ns to the Ujnited Stares LOCAL BEST SELLERS EUROPA by Robert Briffault. r °ibn~rer'S. $2.75. IT CAT HAPPEN HERE by diearLewis. 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