SCIENCE INSTITUTE ALMOST FINE See Page 2 Y L Lxtit uan Sixty-Eight Years of Editorial Freedom 43 a t 149 OMINOUS, HUMI VOL. LXIX, No. 25S Ciardi Gives View of Poet In Symbolic 'Third Son' ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1959 FIVE CENTS T eds o tomic h p By WILLIAM ELLIOT "In art, progress is measured with each new generation. "The 'artist must ask his fun- damental questions in newer and more meaningful ways, only guid- ed by the literature of the past." Prof. John Ciardi of the Rut- gers University English depart- ment and Poetry Editor of "The Saturday Review," told a Univer- sity audience yesterday that art was not cumulative in the real sense, like science, but "a real constant about human beings, finding shape to their lives." Art asks fundamental questions. over the progressive questions of y science, and could look back, "as the poet looks back upon the author of 'Hamlet'," only for guidance in form and atmosphere. Symbolic Son "Adam and Eve and the Third Son," given as a part of the "Mod- ern Man Looks Forward" lectures during the summer session, pro- vided listeners with Prof. Ciardi's view of the poet in the symbolic third son. "Cain and Abel, the first two sons, represent opposing man, and eventually, progressing man. But there had to be a third son. He became the perfector, the poet with an interest in the poem as an experience in form." " "The poem provides the form in a chaotic world," Prof. Ciardi continued. "The subject matter does not count. It is the perfec- tion of form that brings the order, and that brought John Keats ful- fillment as he foresaw death and wrote of it. Robert Frost has said: 'The poem is a momentary stay against confusion.' Words Powerful "To trap a fact of the world, to breathe suggestion into the lan- guage, almost becomes a kind of sacrament. Within words lie, the ghost-like power of implication. And language is one of the most' fundamental parts of human be- havior." Prof. Ciardi talked of the "emo- tional voltage" of a poem. He felt that most people were not ready or willing to submit themselves to the "arresting form of human ex- perience" that a poem can give. They should realize that "the poem provides experience all men have in common, whether they know it or not." "The value of vicarious experi- ence is never-ending. People are born with the potential to enjoy these "shared experiences given form," if they would appreciate the "economy package" with which they are handed new worlds. As a result of these two theories, the aiming for perfection in form and atmosphere, regardless of the subject matter, and the realiza- tion of art as a seeker of funda- mental questions over science's progressive questions, Prof. Ciardi has given us a picture of the mod- ern, unconcerned reader, un- aware of the emotional impact poetry provides. LENINGRAD (MP)-The Russians at first hesitated and then gave United States Vice-Admiral Hy- man Rickover a long close-up look yesterday at their atomic ice- breaker Lenin and its three re- actors. The crusty little admiral fathered the American atomic submarine and is probably the world's ace pioneer in naval nuclear powering. He is touring Russia as an official in Vice-President Richard M. Nix- on's party. 'Fine Job' His appraisal of Russia's naval nuclear showpiece: "A fine job, a good job for the purpose for which it was planned." But it does not represent an advance in the reactor art, he added. The Lenin, scheduled to undergo working tests next June, is the Russians' secret weapon against Arctic ice. The Russians first gave Nixon a one-hour view of the 16,000-ton ship. But it was a quickie tour that did not include the reactors, the atomic engines which are sup- Posed to develop 44,000 horse- power. Admiral Rickover, with Nixon on. the tour, protested that the Americans were getting -the run- around. "I want to see the inside," he said. Nixon backed him up. The shipyard master refused to let the admiral go into the ship's inner workings immediately. Ad- miral Rickover was left fuming in the officers' dining room while local authorities took up the mat- ter with higher officials. Permission finally came through. For two hours the slight, in- quisitive engineer-admiral roved about the ship and studied the reactors, which were inactive. He found the design slightly different from those used in United States submarines. He climbed and crawled .to the furthermost crannies of the vessel after advising a Soviet woman translator to follow him if she wanted to earn her money. In blunt language, he summed up his reaction to newsmen: "It looks like a first-class job, but since I don't have X-ray eyes, .I can't look inside those reactors." Rode Subway After his own tour of the Lenin, Nixon rode in a Leningrad sub- way, inspected a metallurgical plant, took a boat ride and wound up attending the ballet with Dep- uty Premier Frol R. Kozlov. The Vice-President flew here at the start of a five-day trip that will take him to western Siberia. A crowd of about 1,500 including sailors and many young men and women, welcemed him at the air- port. -Daily-Robert Dennis DISCUSSES MODERN ARTIST-Prof. John Ciardi of Rutgers University yesterday called for a realization of form and atmos- phere in poetry before a summer session lecture series audience. HARVARD PREACHER: Buttrick Notes Religious View of Life By STEPHANIE ROUMELL "We are not praying in a schemet of ions," George Buttrick, Preacherc to the University at, Harvard, said yesterday. In his lecture, "Prayer and thet Natural Law," he declared, "suchs a purely scientific view of the world is fragmentary." There are several valid ways ofo looking at life, all of which are interfused, he maintained. Thev scientific view regards man as an object, but this purely scientific1 approach leaves out God in itss reasonings, Buttrick asserted. 1 Trhis view sees man and the i cosmos as objects, omitting the fact that man is a subject as well,f who views himself within thec natural order., Cites Shortcoming Another shortcoming of this view, Buttrick said, is in the "prin-r cipal of unpredictability," for evenp in a play of electrons, scientists World News Roundup w~ s By The Associated Presss LANSING -- Gov. G. Mennen Williams said yesterday Republi-v can senators will be going back onc more than a promise if they refuser to quickly release the Veteranss Trust Fund.r "The oath they made to uphold the constitution is stronger than any promise they might have made," the Governor told a news conference. Although the GOP Senate cau- cus nearly three months ago okayed trust fund use in the cash, emergency, some senators said over the weekend they saw no need for sale of the 50 million dollars in securities. The caucus position was condi- tioned on House acceptance of their use (sales) tax increase pro- gram. The House approved it, with some changes, last Friday. VIENNA - Police reported 13f fistic street fights were waged be- tween Communistsand anti-Com- munists during the first full day of the Red-sponsored World Youth Festival here. The anti - Communist fighters were mostly Austrian youths who ran into trouble yesterday while distributing leaflets espousing democracy to Communist delega- tinwnc ,._. are aware that there is movement' that man's mind does not con- ceive. The human freedom principle of viewing life implies the "doc- trine of responsibility." Even the scientist who does not resolve his previous view when a new truth is revealed is acting by the principle of human' °reedom, Buttrick pointed out, and he is blame- worthy. "It is impossible to disevolve human freedom, since when we do so, we assume that our denial, at least, is free; thus giving proof of its existence," Buttrick maintained. Responsibility, inherent in human freedom, is implied in every item of praise, he continued, for to call a man's act good implies that it might have been bad. And un- less we have this freedom, Butt-, rick, said, nothing we did would have meaning. Views Fused These two views are fused, he continued, for man's choices are limited by natural law; one may leave a room through one of sev- eral exits but not through the wall. But both of these views are subject to a third principle of force, Buttrick said, which the scientist often calls chance. Coincidences imply a "web of unpredictability" that the scientist calls chance, whereas the religious man calls this Providence, the speaker maintained. We all have many chances each day, Buttrick continued, and to recognize the1 value of chance in life would be far more scientific than to say that the cosmos depends wholly oa natural law or human freedom. All three ways of viewing life are interfused, Buttrick said, but; the other two are subject to the' third principle, God, who guides us through our freedom "like a. wise parent. It is through prayer+ that this third dimension is culti- vated, and it is here that man is truly free," he concluded. Pact Sought' In Germanly GENEVA (YP)-The West German government has agreed in principle to propose a non-aggression pact with Poland and Czechoslovakia, West German officials said yes- terday. Authoritative German inform- ants said the proposal will not be made during the course of the Ge- neva conference but indicated it might be later this year. The pro- posal was described as a first step along the way toward normalizing relations between Bonn and the two Communist states to the east. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's government has no diplomatic re- lations with any Communist coun- try other than the Soviet Union. ON BERLIN: Big Four, To Redraft Proposals GENEVA (P) - The Soviet and Western foreign ministers agreed yesterday to redraft their conflict- ing views on a Berlin truce. This decision was made in the hope of saving the Big Four con- ference from total breakdown. After a flurry of secret negotia- tions, the ministers called a one- day recess of the conference to- day to draw up fresh summaries of the East and West versions of a possible stop-gap agreement on Berlin. The ministers were expected to meet again tomorrow to try to 'mergethe two drafts. Shows Progress British informants, habitually the most optimistic among the Westerners here, said the British felt yesterday's agreement showed a certain amount of headway. Western officials reported there will be some modifications but no basic change in the proposals that Secretary of State Christian A. Herter and his British and French colleagues presented Soviet For- eign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko June 16. Informants said the new Soviet draft will be based on proposals made by Gromyko June 19, but also with some modifications. No Compromise Despite the agreement to put the respective positions in writing, the discussions gave no indication any compromise was in sight, the informants said. The Western proposals of June 16 included: 1) Permanent exclusion of So- viet forces from East Berlin. 2) A freeze of the Western forces in West Berlin at the present level of 11,000 men. 3) A guarantee of free access to West Berlin from West Germany through East Germany, but ac- ceptance of cointrol of access routes by East German personnel. 4) A four-power commission to discuss difficulties arising in the West's right of access to Berlin. 5) Measures to prevent activities likely to disturb public order in both parts of Berlin. ---Daily-Allan Winder PREPARING PRODUCTION-The speech department is readying Jean Anouilh's comedy, "Waltz of the Toreadors" for presentation this week. The play contains humor which occasionally is almost bitter. It will run tomorrow through Saturday at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. . Toreaors To Explore Love By KATHLEEN MOORE A "bit of farce about love" will be on view when "Waltz of the Toreadors" opens at 8 p.m. tomor- row at Lydia Mendelssohn The- atre. Jean Anouilh's play, presented as the fourth in the speech de- partment's summer playbill, is "one of his most typical," Prof. Jean Carduner of the French de- partment noted. "The conflict between pure,I ideal love and the bitter, dirty reality of sex, not love," one of Anouilh's recurring themes, is "better exposed" in "Waltz of the Toreadors" than in many of his otherdplays, Prof. Carduner ex- plained. Pretends Paralysis The play, which takes place in 1910, involves a retired general whose wife, pretending to be paralytic, constantly interrupts him as he attempts to dictate his memoires. The general's routine life is suddenly interrupted with the ap-. pearance of the woman he fell in love with 17 years before at a military school dance. She, his ideal love, returns to tell him she now has the proof he needs for a. divorce - that they can now get married. Anouilh has other plans for his hero, and after the involvements pile up, the general, a "big wolf," is "left with nothing but the maids." The "most popular and most famous French playwright of to- day," according to Prof. Carduner, presents an "extremely pessimis- tic view of life" in 4ihis play when he "tries to destroy bitterly all the romantic illusions about love." Fine Technique "Amazing technique - a tre- tions" are among Anouilh's at- tributes, he said. Contrasting Anouilh to con- temporaries like Sartre and Ca- mus, Prof. Carduner described the two types of theatres currently existing in France. Anouilh be- longs to the theatre which p1aral- lels Broadway, he commented, creating "theatre as a diversion." The others form the literary theatre, the avant garde whose concern is more with philosophi- cal expression than in writing for the public taste, he continued. Anouilh's insight into public taste, he added, "accounts for his In a short airport speech, Nixon illuded to his six-hour talk with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush- hev's summer home outside Mos- ow Sunday. He said they had lifferences which they were un- able to settle. but had agreed on :me thing-that world problems must be settled at the conference able and not on the battlefield." At the Leningrad shipyard, where the 16,000-ton Lenin is be- ing built, Nixon told cheering workers the United States was building an atomic merchant ship and the Soviet Union was build- ing an atomic icebreaker and that this symbolized the wishes of both peoples to use atomic power for peace. U.S.-USSR Exchanges Beneficial' Dewey, Singer Say Visits Aid Knowledge By SELMA SAWAYA "Chances for a peaceful meeting across the conference table are probably enhanced by the mutual visits between representatives of the United States and the USSR," Prof. Horace Dewey of the Slavic languages department said last night. "For example, I think that Vice- President Nixon and Premier Khrushchev have come to know each other, and not just through their speeches. Nixon is now com- pletely in favor of Khrushchev's visiting the United States. "I don't think that any harm can come from this visit; in fact, what worries me more is having the head of a state as powerful as Russia make all his decisiona regarding the United States with- out having any first-hand knowl- edge of this country or its people. Visit Good "So, I think that a visit by Khrushchev to this country would be a very good thing. It would probably give him an entirely dif- ferent perspective on us. Nixo's trip has probably also given him a new perspective on Russia and Khrushchev, although I don't know how he'll use it," Prof. Dewey commented. Prof. J. David Singer of the political science department of- fered the opinion that the impact on the people who see the exhibits, such as the present United States exhibition at Sokolniki Park in Moscow, as well as the "exchange" visitors, is "not terribly impressive. "These people may get the idea that the Americans (or the Rus- sians) are not so different from themselves, but as soon as they have left the exhibit, or the coun- try concerned, they are immedi- ately subjected to their own anti- American (or anti-Russian) prop- aganda, and the effect of these 'people - to - people' programs is mitigated." Need Propaganda Part of the necessity for this propaganda, he continued, is due to the fact that "as long as there is a chance of either side com- mitting aggression, each side must keep a certain level of tension in its own people, to keep the pre- paredness programs going." Prof. Dewey said the exchanges of "unofficial ambassadors," such as Kozlov and Nixon, are "terribly important in themselves, and the effect on the peoples of the coun- tries concerned of secondary im- portance." As far as other countries are concerned, Prof. Dewey continued, "as long as their own interests aren't directly involved, they prob- ably regard these mutual visits with only curiosity." Lessens Differences Prof. Singer felt that the effect on neutralist countries would be to "strengthen the conviction in their camp that the differences between the United States and the USSR are not as great as the two countries seem to imply. "This conviction may play hob with the Western allies, though it tends to weaken them in their conviction that the USSR is their implacable enemy." r. z i mendous gift for lively dialogue extreme success but is also his and a sense for dramatic situa- limitation." Farm Crisis Congress' Fault, Paarlberg Claims Don Paarlberg, special assistant to President Dwight D. Eisen- hower, last night criticized Congress for its failure to pass "constructive legislation" to deal with the farm problem. In an interview held at the Institute for Practical Partisan Politics the former assistant secretary of agriculture declared, "The public is growing a little weary of mounting surpluses. This is a legislative and not an administrative problem. The' Democratic Party controls Con- -- ress and could enact changes if ISSUE POLICY STATEMENT: Parked Bicycles o e mpOUnded Illegally parked bicycles will be subject to impounding by the Office of Student Affairs. The new policy, announced in a statement by the Bicycle Control Program Subcommittee of the University Safety Committee, goes into effect immediately. Implementation of the plan, mapped early in July, was delayed in. an attempt to remedy the parking situation by voluntary means, but a recent survey by committee members showed 56 bicycles and one motor bike crowding the entrance to the Undergraduate Library. Marshall Issues Complaint In addition, the state fire marshall has issued a complaint to thea University concerning the blocking of entrances, exits and terraces by bicycles, motor bikes, scooters and motorcycles. "The University has no alternative under the circumstances except to impose a more rigorous system of control. Bicycles parked in such a way as to impede entrances or exits to buildings and bicycles on terraces and sidewalks have to be impounded," according to the sub- ; committee's statement. In the procedure, bicycles, after identification and tagging, will be it desired to do so. But this has not been done." Paarlberg predicted consumer prices will remain fairly stable for the rest of 1959. He foresaw "con- tinued strength" in the cost of services and manufactured goods, accompanied by "fairly soft" farm prices. Addressing the Institute yester- day, Paarlberg said the labels, "re- actionary," as applied to Republi- cans, and "Liberal," as applied to Democrats, are in error. Paarlberg said it was "unfortun- ate mislabeling" that led to the Republican viewpoint being called reactionary. "The Republican view is, in fact, forward-looking," he pointed out. "The future has always belonged to those with a high regard for the worth of the individual." "By some equally unfortunate mislabeling," he continued, "the Democratic view has become known as 'liberal.' It is not liberal because it does not stand for ' k'