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COMOE
JAY, MAY 13, 1958
NIGHT EDITOR: THOMAS TURNER
NAACP Segregation Charges
Lower University's Reputation
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DRAMA SEASON:
Miller Retains Power
In New 'Bridge' Version
AS A PLAYWRIGHT, Arthur Miller strives for an honesty and a
dimension most modern dramatists would quail at. Whether he
succeeds, which he has done with brilliance, or fails, Mr. Miller is
unique in today's theatre, and perhaps tomorrow's. "A View From the
Bridge" which opened the Drama Season last night, is a work of enor-
mous pretensions, encompassing a strict classical conception of drama
with the seamiest side of present day Naturalism.
When I first saw the play in New York it was part of a double bill
and considerably shorter than the present version. Mr. Miller's new
script is better than the old because it explains much of what had been
hazy. But it is a lesser play because it now over explains. Part of its
terrific power was once in its subtlety. With that lost, the play is guilty
of forcing some of its ideas upon the. audience. The intellectual quality
is obscured; the emotive quality is still dynamic. And so, last night, al-
though I was extremely moved, I kept wishing a few judicious cuts had
been made.
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ARGE universities have a tendency to move
'slowly and with a great deal of deliberation
id debate - if they feel like it.
But in some cases, the complex administra-
ve machinery can swiftly be cleared of all
d tape, special committees and other me-
ianical obstructions. This administrative
usecleaning usually comes when a univer-
y uncovers a problem and finds it to be of
serious and urgent nature. But all too often,
e words "serious" and "urgent" are not at-
ched to campus issues instituted by the stu-
nt body.
The question of dormitory segregation seems
fall into this classification. The possibility
discrimination in University residence halls
s been debated, studied and reviewed.
TUDENT - ADMINISTRATIVE committees
have been formed, petitions distributed and
scussions held on the subject since the Con-
egational Disciples Guild brought the issue
the campus' attention last fall. To date,
le positive action has- been taken by the
niversity to prove or disprove the existence of
such practices.'
The Michigan State Conference of National
Association for the Advancement of Colored
People learned of the University's housing ap-
plications and filed a formal resolution with
the University and Governor G. Mennen Wil-
liams.
Charging dormitory segregation in Univer-
sity residence halls, the state NAACP confer-
ence called upon the Governor to take the "ne-
cessary action" to bring a halt to the alleged
practices. The organization has even proposed
an "outside investigation" if immediate steps
are not taken.
In light of the recent American Association
of University Professors condemnation, the
University certainly has not improved its repu-
tation in the eyes of the Michigan resident.
Bad publicity has proven disastrous to edu-
cational institutions in the past - especially
state-supported institutions. The 'implications
of AAUP condemnation may be reached too far
to be' easily corrected by the University.
But the University can act on the NAACP
discriminatory charges. While they may not all
be based on proven fact, the feelings expressed
in recent charges represent a setback in Uni-
versity-taxpayer relations.
-BARTON HUTHWAITE
THE PLAY adheres to Greek tragedy purposefully. Even the chorus
is presented, represented by a narrator who also figures in the plot. The
idea is good. The execution is not so successful, for lawyer Alfieri speaks
a piece too literate, too self-consciously fulfilling a literary heritage. It
does not harmonize with the immediacy of drama, though much of what
it says is fine to read.
With these reservations, and all they entail, "A View From the
Bridge" is still brilliant. In spite of its excesses and over-sensitivity to
literary form, the play has a rare force.
The plot concerns a Brooklyn longshoreman Eddie Carbone, a
simple, somewhat inarticulate man who lives with his wife and 18-year-
old niece. Carbone is over-solicitous of the girl and cannot help being
jarred by her sudden change into womanhood. As the play begins, he
i is engaged in secretly' sneaking two relatives from Italy into the coun-
try, illgeally and unbeknownst to the immigration authorities. Marco is
a hard working man with a wife
and sick children back home he AT THE STATE:
must, support.
ut shis brother Rodolfo Is a
Bu i rte oof salight-headed youth, impractical
and still a boy. In a short time,
Rodolfo and Carbone's niece
Catherine fall in love and so be-
gins the destruction, in the Hel-
lenistic tradition, of Eddie Car-
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND:
Italian Politics in Retrospect
bone. For Eddie, although he does
not realize it, is in love with the
girl. As the tensions mount he
projects a monstrous fiction on
the boy and, in an electric scene,
brings about a denouement as in-
evitable and as bloody as any in
Sophocles.
ment of Colored People has been fregently
criticized-perhaps rightfully-for moving too
fast. Desegregation is a delicate problem, the
argument runs, so that progress should be slow
and deliberate. There are times, however, when
daring, purposeful action is necessary; there
are times when America must clearly state we
are striving-striving successfully-to fulfill our
ideological goals.
This is one of those times. Little Rock, the
South'in general, and northern cities like New
York, Chicago and Detroit are obvious examples
of our most serious failing-the lack of some
our proud claim of tolerance. As disgraceful as
the situation in these places is, we have an
even greater disgrace.
ANN ARBOR is the hone of one of the coun-
try's greatest Universities. Ann Arbor has
no sprious racial or religious problem and has
no provocation for one. The University is dis-
tinguished for its International students' pro-
gram and proud of its tradition of liberal
education.
America's greatest disgrace-as many' inter-
national students will attest-is that great
centers of liberal thinking like Ann Arbor
should have a tolerance problem. True, we do
not have race riots or lynching, but we do have
open discrimination.
The city and the University allow it in room-
ing houses and apartments. The University will
approve an off-campus housing facility even if
the owner admittedly practices segregation. The
present-not only fails to actively encourage
integration of roommates, but in effect, through
the wording on the application blanks, asks the
student if he has any prejudices.
OUR NOTORIOUSLY "apathetic" student
body is making enormous strides to over-
come bigotry-at least written acknowledge-
ment of it-at the University. They have been
working in the area of fraternities and sorori-
ties, University residences and off-campus hous-
ing. This work has not been carried out irre-
sponsibly by self-made martyrs, nor by loud
chavinists, nor by "wide-eyed liberals." The
work has been quietly and efficiently carried
out by intelligent concerned students.
AMONG these people, opinion varies as to bow
far and how quickly the University should
move. But there is one minimum that all seem
to agree upon: the University of Michigan
should .firmly and clearly declare that it is
unequivocally opposed in principle to discrimi-
nation. Further, it should publicly pledge that
it will strive as rapidly and as determinedly as
possible to end discrimination in the University
and in the community.
It would be an additional shame 'if the
University had to be forced into such a program
by state-wide politics. It would be a terrible
thing for the University to acknowledge that
it is more responsive to outside political neces-
sity, than the ideals of its own students.
-JAMES SEDER
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(EDITOR'S NOTE: Drew Pearson is
now in Italy covering the forthcom-
ing Italian elections - the first na-
tional vote of a major western power
since the Russian Sputnik. This is
his first dispatch from Rome.)
ROME-Visiting modern, thriv-
ing, energetic, ancient Rome to-
day brings a lot of memories.
They go back a long way and en-
compass a lot of the heartaches,
the woes, the political ups and
downs, and the great human vic-
tories of Italy.
The firstmemdry goes back to
the days before Mussolini, right
after World War I, when I ar-
rived in Rome with a knapsack on
my back, an economizing young
tourist taking a couple of weeks
off from postwar reconstruction
work in Montenegro to gaze bug-
eyed at the wonders of ancient
Rome. Rome was sleepy, lethargic
and delightful.
* * *
IT WAS also awash with patri-
otic boasts that it alone had won
the war and of nationalistic de-
mands for Fiume, parts of Aus-
tria and the Adriatic Coast. Stop-
ping in Fiume en route back to
Yugoslavia I was arrested by
swaggering Italian Carabinieri be-
cause I spoke Serb. An American
passport and proof that I was
born in the distant city of Evans-
ton, Ill., finally won my release.
That was in 1920.
My next memory of Italy was in
1923. Mussolini had just taken
over. It was his proud boast that
the trains now ran on time. They
By DREW PEARS4
did. But traveling from Milan to
Rome, my trunk was neatly rifled,
a pair of gold cuff links removed.
Maybe, I thought, the new fascist
regime could do with less effi-
ciency and more honesty.
I finally secured an interview
with Mussolini. I was a green
newspaperman then and Musso-
lini sensed it. I have never for-
gotten the drama of my entrance
-a rather dark, long room in the
Palazzo Chigi, a man- crouched
over a desk at the far end of the
room, what seemed an endless
walk across the room, the bare in-
laid floor, portraits on the wall,,
a stern, bald-headed figure in uni-
form, his frown, his intensity.
"Your name is Pearson," he
said, wasting no time. "You have
come to ask me about commu-
nism. It is finished, gone forever.
We have banished it from Italy--
completely."
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I HAVE thought of that inter-
view many times during recent
visits and especially today as Italy
prepares to go to the polls in a
great national test of Communist
strength. Banishment of Commu-
nism or any political party by
force never pays, and Italy now
has the biggest Communist Par-
ty of any country outside Russia.
On the same day I marched
nervously across the room toward
the desk of Il Duce, I interviewed
Francisco Nitti, ex-Premier of
Italy and leader of the democratic
opposition which had fought
fascism. He was genial, friendly,
talked about the need for a free
press, free speech.
Next day his home was ran-
sacked by a gang of fascists, his
f u r n i t u r e broken, his papers
strewn about the street. Nitti
went into exile. I doubt if my in-
terview had anything to do with
the raid, as Nitti's pro-democratic
statements to me had not yet
been published. The raid was just
part of the fascist technique of
stamping out not only Commu-
nism but all political opposition.
There was another visit to Italy
-in 1936, when an arrogant
fascist regime had just ridden
roughshod over helpless Ethiopia.
It was a visit I remember with no
pleasure.
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BROADCASTING shortwave
from Milan on Jan. 3, 1948, I sug-
gested to American listeners that
citizens of Italian descent write
* their friends and relatives in Italy
encouraging them in their battle
for a democratic republic, and to
so vote in the 1948 elections. They
did. Later an average of a million
letters a week poured out of the
New York Post Office for Italy.
The Communists made no gains
that spring.
Today Italy faces another great
ejection. They come every five
years here, and they are just as
vital to this new democracy as our
four-year elections are at home.
Perhaps more so, because ancient
Italy is very new politically.
(Copyright 1958 by Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
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Equal Time.,for Studies
WOMEN'S Judiciary Council's success in ex-
tending women's closing hours till mid-
night during the coming examination period
deserves commendation, but it should be, an
initial step in a re-examination of women's
hours.
In view of the closing hours .of the new
undergraduate library, the 11 p.m. curfew pre-
viously imposed on coeds during exam time
seems senseless. Few indeed are the coeds
who hop into bed promptly at 11:30 on the
eve of a final exam. The time extension gives
women an additional hour of study time free
from interruption.
League Senate unanimously approved the
trial plan effecting such an extension. The lack
of debate on the proposal indicates such an
extension appears wholly valid to a cross
sample of Michigan women. Women's Judic
and League-and -'in essence, all women on'
campus-should now look ,into the broader
question of establishing midnight as the stand-
.ard weekday closing hour for women. New
library hours demand a re-evaluation and
ultimate change in women's closing hours.
THE LIBRARY is open until midnight each.
weekday, yet every evening at 10, a mass
exodus of women begins. By 10:20 the library
seems to have become part of a men's school
containing only a few female invaders.
This is not merely an argument for women's
rights, for it appears evident that a midnight
curfew would greatly benefit coeds in their
studies. The library offers students a quiet and
decidedly comfortable place to study. It also
provides excellent reference facilities. Idealisti-
cally, at least, it is the aim of every university
student to study as successfully as he can
SUCCESSFUL studying depends on efficient
use of time, and a 10:30 curfew can be
detrimental to a student's study schedule. Often
the evening affords the only time when a
student can depend on a Afrolonged period of
study. The library is preferred study spot for
many coeds and present closing hours may
mean a significant interruption in studying.
Admittedly there are many coeds who would
not care to stay in the library until a care-
fully calculated few minutes before midnight.
But there are many who would. In full consider-
ation of those desiring to use the library to its
full advantage, the weekday closing hours
should be changed.
-RUTH BERS
INTERPRETING THE NEWS:
World Revolves Around U.S. Money
THE combination of Brooklyn
longshoremen with the patterns
of the tragic flaw comes alive in
Mr. Miller's hands. Last night's
production lived up to it in most
departments and failed in a few
others. Director John O'Shaugh-
nessy staged the play wtih an ap-
preciation of the dramatic excite-
ment and did not fall slave to the
literary devices.
As Eddie Carbone, Luther Adler
gives .a gigantic performance,
growing slowly from a humorous
and simple man into a tormented,
but always recognizable, person.
Not once did he lose contact with
the flesh and blood of the role. It
is a difficult role - he must be
human and he must be an im-
mense portrait' of Man at the
same time. Adler is more tlan
capable of coping with that.
The other performances were
generally, good, except in the real-
ly disastrous performance of Sally
Mills as the girl. Miss Mills chose
to play the all-important role .of
Catherine as if she were doing
Corliss Archer.
Alan Mixon and Louis Zorich
did well with the two immigrants,
while Martin Wolfson's hard,
tough-talking Alfieri made the
part a little more palatable
Even when Arthur Miller
misses, he is better than his con-
temporaries.
" -David Newman
,Suspicion
DOES the American Association
of University' Professors take
adequate action against "violators
of academic freedom?" Does it fail
to to "follow through" in protect-
ing teachers against "unfair prac-
tices?"
Note the phrasing of the ques-
tions, which are taken from 'a
piece of "straight" reporting on
the education page of the New
York Times. The tacit premises:
1) a university that incurs the
Association's displeasure is eo ipso
a "violator of academic freedom,"
and 2) a finding by the Associa-
tion that a "practice" is "unfair"
makes the practice unfair.
The AAUP, far from being what
it pretends to be, is merely an
association of 10,000 university
professors. It was captured, many
years ago, by academic-freedom
extremists who have attempted to
put over axioms about the teach-
ter's relation to his university, to
his society, and to truth that, in
our own view at least, will not bear
even the most casual critical ex-
amination; and, in the recent
struggle over the Fifth Amend-
ment, it has lent powerful support
(for despite its small membership
it is powerful) to those who would
undermine our internal secritr For
all three reasons the presumption,
when a dispute arises between the
Association and a university, is not
the side of the Association. And it
behooves all of us, therefore, to
examine each and every such dis-
pute on its merits.
No one, we trust, will understand
us to wish the nation's teachers to
be left wholly at the mercy of the
administrators of its institutions
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"MARJORIE Morningstar" occa-
sionally verges on being cute,
but most of the time it is just plain
silly. This story of a young prin-
cesh who conquers west-side New
York and the lower Catskills is
neither convincing nor particular-
ly entertaining.
"Marjorie Morningstar" bears
strong resemblances to Little Or-
phan Annie. Marjorie is better
situated, of course, but the tri-
umphs and tragedies of both hero-
ines have a common interminable
quality. The history of Marjorie
Morningstar might have been more
successfully conveyed through the
comic strip medium than thl
cinema. This adaptation of Her-
man Wouk's novel could easily
have been an adaptation from
something out'of the Sunday fun-
nies.
Marjorie Morganstern is an as-
pirting actress who makes the mis-
take of falling in love with the
wrong man. Natalie Wood plays
this young Jewish girl, who ulti-
mately reaches emotional maturity
right before your very eyes.
Marjorie's mistake is Noel Air-.
man, played by Gene Kelly. He is
a reprobate entertainer who ap-
parently did not have a proper
religious childhood. Noel is world-
ly-wise, and most anxious to infuse
some of his wisdom on Marjorie.
She resists, of course, because she's
got a five thousand year heitage
of Moses and the ten command-
ments backing her up, not to men-
tion her mother. Marjorie's been
well'brought up and consequently
knows what's right.
* * *
NOEL, who isn't in the market
for a wedding band, fails to come
up to Mrs. Morganstern's stand-
ards for her daughter. Marjorie
dutifully tries to give him up for
some better prospect, but her hea
won't let her.
Anyway, wherever she goes,
there is a constant whirlpool of
promising young doctors, lawyers,
and playwrites who invariably fall
in love with her. But Our Gal
Sunday leaves them all broken-
hearted. Marjorie won't sacrifice
her principles for sex, love, fame
or anything. The moral of the
story is that if you're beautiful,
good, religious, and rich, you can
afford to be independent.
Ed Wynn, who play's Marge's
Uncle Samson, is about the only
solid, un-stereotyped character in
the film. Unfortunately, he dies
of a ' heart attack half-way
through.
Now that the warmer weather
has finally hit Ann Arbor, there
seems little reason for anyone
wanting to sit through the history
of Marjorie Morganstern. It may
be sociologically sound, but it
really isn't much of a movie.
-Beverly Gross
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TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1958
VOL. LXVIII, NO. 160
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No U.S. Sticks for Latin Stones
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
f ENTY-FIVE years ago the
United States was so con-
cerned with depression at home,
was so isolated from world af-
fairs, that the rantings of a couple
of dictators in Germany and
Italy made small impression.
Today the almost unintelligible
mouthings of a bunch of Commu-
nists in an ideological dispute are
a factor in an important Congres-
sional debate. They have a clearly
recognizable effect on world af-
fairs, and promise to cost the
United States money.
After World War II, Yugoslavia
looked like just another one of the
Soviet Union's new Eastern Euro-
pean satellites. Then dictator Tito
refused to knuckle under to Sta-
lin's control and was read out of
the Communist family. Three
years ago Khrushchev tried to
win him back. Now events have
revived Yugoslavia's show of in-
dependence.
The Soviet Union is threatening
again, with the vocal aid of Com-
munist regimes in China, Albania
and Czechoslovakia, to put the
economic clamps on Tito if he
doesn't recognize that all Commu-
nist countries must follow the
Kremlin's wishes to promote
world conquest.
Britain's Manchester Guardian
calls the Communist rift an op-
portunity for the West, suggest-
ing an economic aid program
without ideological conditions,
conducted through the United Na-
tions if possible.
"It will help to preserve both
peace and freedom in the world
at large if the West is seen to
help a country which wants to
preserve its independence - even
if that country happens to be
Communist," the paper said yes-
terday.
Senators were saying much the
same in Washington, 'though
without any reference to the UN.
The old idea of nonpolitical aid
programs through the UN, how-
ever, was being revived in an-
other quarter by Thomas K. Fin-
letter, former Air Force secretary,
who recommended one for the
Middle East. The United States
would pay, just the same.
Twenty - five years ago the
United States revolved within
herself. Today the world revolves
around her treasury.
To The Editor
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DOWN in South America, all is not sweetness
and light, the good citizens have been
throwing stones at the Vice-President of the
United States of Amer'ica. This stone-throwing
has come upon the United States as somewhat
of a surprise. Although there are millions of
people somewhere in the world who for one
reason or another would like to see a well-
laced rock caroom off of Richard M. Nixon's
skull, the astonishing thing is that a South
American did it - and not just one or two of
them but whole mobs.
If the State Department and the Executive
office 'are alarmed thev might well h heeause
The unfortunate truth is that in countries
painfully close to home, United States prestige
has evidently taken a nose dive. The reason
could be that we have just not paid as much
attention to these countries because of a pre-
occupation with European affairs. But ev-,a
more tragic than such demonstrations would
be to consider this provocation to cut off all
aid to South America or even the countries in-
volved. Sen. John Cooper (R-Ky.) suggests such
a course.
He is advocating a serious and idiotic move.
It has not yet been shown that these riots are
Progress . *
To the Editor:
SOMETIMES it is very difficult
in admitting that one is an
alumnus of certain educational in-
stitutions when that particular
institution hits the headlines
either for discrimination or in
defense of some discriminatory
policy. This is especially true of
the alumnus who finds himself in
return to their homelands and into
positions of leadership.
The Michigan Daily has had a
long and fine heritage in its many
fights for freedom . . . certainly
this year's staff has lived up to the
fine tradition and set a pace for
the future. Again, congratulations.
-Morse Saito,
Kobe, Japan
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