-jz" . . -C ige 10-The Michigan Daily Magazine Monda lM MMn. ON UNIVERSAL PROBLEMS: Writer Paul Darcy Boles (Continued from Page 8) r r IJ Jumbo Burgers I ... 303 EAST LIB ERTY I1 STUDENTS /c onme to NC4P4ON RAMSAY PRINTERS, Inc. well equipped to take care of your PRINTING REQUIREMENTS " STATIONERY " TICKETS " POSTERS " PROGRAMS I iNVITATIONS OF ALL KINDS * BOOKLETS * HANDBILLS " BUSINESS FORMS RAMSAY PRINTERS, Inc. STATIONERS - PRINTERS - ENGRAVERS 119 E. Liberty - Phone NO 8-7900 understanding is enough a part of Carp Rambo, that, if he has no control over his destiny, he is able to act positively within its limi- tations and likewise do his share to help people in his life come to grips with their lots. BOLES writes sensually; it is a visually rich prose, and the author needs few words to evoke a scene and make its moments meaningful. It is a style that fits in effectively with the versatile technique he employs. The first book was a third-per- son narrative, while Carp Rambo's story is told as Carp himself would have told it. Boles infuses Carp's narrative with the lore of our southern United States. "Glenport, Illinois" is the most ambitious of the four novels, in terms of the book's physical scope. The author traces a boy's growth to manhood, but does so through the use of a different narrative technique. We see Tone Grayleaf first, through the eyes of his father, because the boy is too young to grasp the sensations of their mi- gration to Glenport, and the new- ness is almost the same for the older man. Then, as the boy grows,wensee the world through his eyes; but as his being effects others, we see him as his friends observe him. We see him as would the mother of his best friend; when he is older, his wife's eyes, those of someone come to Glenport from; outside, are the focal points. It is a more controlled technique than the regular omniscient approach and, in Boles' hands, it is used most effectively., My only objection is a personal one, that any omniscient view- point forfeits a sense of individual experience that a more unified technique offers. ELSEWHERE in his essay, the; author contends writing is "at one and the same time a personal and a universal experience." This can be read two ways. It could be merely that the wri-4 NOrmi3P491 C- AR 0 G A Look at the City "'We Now Take You to Beautiful Ann Arbor -Strap on Your Safety Belt!" CARS, CARS, CARS-"In no other town in the country can you see so many dirty LincoIns and dirty Cadillacs, 1957 model. Everywhere Lincoln treats it as a sort of family altar, keeping it washed, keeping it waxed and polished, and keeping the white-sidewall JACKET DESIGN FROM 'DEADLINE' .. , the editor must take a stand on segregation r ' rr r rrr The /fet 7oietwi and epeqfj are a'ai/a6Ie at poijcAep . . « ter works alone, but that he shares the fruits of that labor with the world. The other mean- ing is more in keeping with Mr. Boles' creed: that the subject matter is, at first, personal, but eventually the writer must articu- late about his involvement in the world, of his obligation and his glory as a man. He tackles such a universal problem in his fourth book. "Deadline" is about the editor of a southern newspaper who must make his decision, as to his per- sonal stand on the segregation is- sue. More than anything else, how- ever, this book shows the author's concern for man's involvement with his fellow man, this time on a much larger scale. Where Tagli was mostly iso- lated, and Carp Rambo's involve- ments were solely persoral; and Tone Grayleaf, except in his pri- vate life, was not crucially in- volved in society; George Case, the hero of "Deadline," is respon- sible to his world for many things. THE STORY encompasses sever- al days in George Case's life. He has not taken a stand on seg- regation, although the Supreme Court decision had a 1r e a d y aroused the South. In a few days, the publishers would be back from Chicago where they have received orders from their board of directors, a group of men too far away from the crisis to fully understand. He must seek out people who can help him understand, such as his friend Louis, a successful free- lance writer, and the poet Garon Loring. A drinking bout with Louis puts George in contact with more peo- ple who are interested in his de- cision, while a visit to Garon's farm, confronts him with the poet's personal difficulties which likewise serve to guide his deci- sion. No one can call Paul Darcy Boles a literary figure; however, that frees him from the harbin- gers of notoriety. He need never have his picture taken in the lap of a movie star, nor assume any other ridiculous pose. . He is merely a good writer who, with each book, makes a more vi- tal contribution to his field. In time, he will get the belated rec- ognition he deserves. m-MMMMMU Treatments and Hair Preparations Choose fro o By MALCOLM COWLEY ANN ARBOR, Mich., is a city of sixty thousand people with beautiful elm - shaded streets through which automobiles go rac- ing bumper to bumper and fender to crumpled fender. The name commemorates a wild-grape arbor on the banks of the Huron River, much loved by early settlers, which is now the site of the city dump. The Motor Metropolis is only forty miles away, and executives of Ford and General Motors now come to Ann Arbor to live in the purer air, perfumed with lilacs, roses, and ethyl gasoline. There is also a university that is large even by Midwestern standards. For eight and a half months of the year, excluding weekends, there are as. many students in Ann Arbor as there are people of all ages in Danbury. Many of the graduate'students are married, and they have more children than attend the Brookfield school. There is a Faculty Directory that also includes administrative per- sonnel. It has six thousand names in it, about equal to the 1950 pop- ulation of New Milford. The stu- dents have - cars, the professors have cars, and the motor execu- tives have three or four cars per fol' each of their half-grown chil- family, including Thunderbirds dren. Cars are relatively cheap in Michigan, 'where almost every- thing else is dear. Gas costs as Malcolm Co ley, famed American literary critic, wrote "We Now Take You to Beau- tiful Ann Arbor - Strap on j Your Safety Belt!" for a home- town publication, The Senti- nel, during his stay at the Uni- versity last year as a visiting professor of English. He has graciously given The Daily the Privilege of reprinting his im - pressions of Ann Arbor.! much as it does in Wyoming, gro- ceries are high, liquor is taxed, re- taxed, and taxed again, and rents are roughly equivalent to those in Fairbanks, Alaska; but cars are practically given away for green trading stamps. Well, let's be ac- curate. The list price of new cars is about $75 less than it is in Con- necticut, but dealers are prepared to shade the price if buyers seem reluctant. Used cars can be bought on Livernois Avenue in Detroit for $5 down and $5 a week. Even fam- ilies living on relief or old-age pensions wouldn't think of doing without a car. WHILE looking for a place to park in downtown Ann Arbor, I made some observations on the motor-car situation, or plight. There was plenty of time to make them because my favorite park- ing lot was being graded and it took me an hour to find another with a vacant place. Here are a few notes that I thought might interest readers of the Sentinel. In no other town in the coun- try can you see so many dirty Lincolns and dirty Cadillacs, 1957 model. Everywhere else the owner of a Cadillac or Lincoln treats it as a sort of family altar, keeping it washed, keeping it waxed and polished, and keeping the white- sidewall tires as clean as his cus- tom-made shirt. Here the 1957 Lincolns (mostly flesh-colored or shocking pink) and the 1957 Cad- illacs (mostly bright yellow con- vertibles) are covered with grease and mud or dust, depending on the season. The explanation seems to be that they are owned by mo- tor-company executives who ex- pect to trade them in, come Octo- ber, for 1958 models, and mean- while treat them like jalopies. In- cidentally the children take bet- ter care of their all-white or all- black Thunderbirds. In no other state'in the Union are there so many cars with rusted-out fenders, frayed at the bottom like old overalls. A pro- bable explanation is that Michi- gan has lots of wet snow and uses lots of salt on the highways to get rid of it. Michigan cars that are more than four years old look like Spanish dowagers trailing the ends of a lace mantilla as they pick their painful way to a grave- yard. WHAT kind of cars do faculty members drive? I made my ob- servations in the university park- ing lots as I drove around vainly trying to get into them. The ad- ministrative staff of the univer- sity - as distinguished from pro- fessors -- drives shiny new cars, mostly station wagons or four- door sedans in the medium chrome range. But the professors drive relics of the flush days after World War II - Kaisers, Henry J's, Willys Aero Larks, one- breasted Studebakers, or, if they feel dashingly modern, 1953 sen- sible Plymouths, the model that didn't sell because it was lacking in steatopygia - I mean the pos- terior overhapg that is regarded terior overhapg that is regarded sometimes on bright Sunday aft- as a mark of beauty among Hot- tentot women and American mo- tor cars. There are also a good many Volkswagens (black) and a few Renaults, purchased by pro- fessors who have given Fulbright Lectures in Europe and came home carrying a briefcase in one hand and a sort of motorized xel- ocipede in the other. As for the students, they drive either truly ancient jalopies or else gleamin gnew Mercurys and Buicks that put the professors to shame. And how they do drive, on these narrow streets and roads! The Michigan speed limit is 65 miles per hour, but nobody pays much attention to it. When a car stops suddenly for a red light, the car behind bumps into it, and sometimes the two cars behind that one, with a noise like suc- cessive thunderclaps. A busy road runs a hundred yards from our back window, and sometimes on bright Sunday aft- MILKMAID -DOROTHY GRAY REVLON -- TUSSY - AR - EX - MAX FACTOR OGILVIE SISTERS Choose your favorite Perfume Start the Term right- from CARON -- SCIAPARELLI - GUERLAIN FABERGE -DANA - CORDAY - YARDLEY CIRO -EVYAN -LUCIEN LeLONG LENTHERIC 15% Discount CASH .& CARRY We Give Holden's Red Stamps 210 SOUTH 5th AVE. 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