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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Sunday, May 26, 19571
THE RISE OF EUGENE O'NEILL
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(Continued from Page 8) he portrays as the man who be- a matter of fate as it was his
apostasy, O'Neil rejects God the trays his mother. Bringing his father's action. In a measure, he
Father in this play, and pleads for mother's body home to be buried, forgives his father and shares in
God the Mother. Tyrone engages in an affair with a a feeling of shame for his mother's
woman on the train-beneath the weakness as well as a feeling of
very eyes of his dear, dead mother guilt. His mother is no more the
T HIS HAS PROVIDED a field - a crime of debauchment, a sin great goddess she once was, his
day for Freudian theorists, against his mother. father no more quite the evil vil-
Prof. Engel muses but adds that lain.
he does not share their sentiments. 'Icenan' Revolution .. .
"This is not essentially the mani- EVOLUTION occurs in The Ice- Pece t ei.
festation of a Freudian concept," n Pemte"whnO'e
he asserts, "but a situation grow- ma Cometh," when O'Neill T WAS A glorious way for
ing out of a natural attacoment to drops his second objective--love. O'Neill to culminate his writing
In "Iceman" O'Neill seems to ap- days, for after this period O'Neill
his mother as opposed to thse welI-
deserved antagonism he felt for pear in Larry, a man of about 60, stopped significant production.
who sees that he can find love in Afflicted with Parkinson's disease,
his father.' either drink or death and chooses which slowly destroyed his motor
The guilt he felt for his mother's
condition is again revealed in the death. powers, O'Neill's condition de-
Nobel-prize-winning play, Mourn- Often death appears the answer teriorated until his death in 1953.
ing Becomes Electra, written in to O'Neill - ironically enough, it Like Larry in Iceman, his quest
1931. Patterned after Aeschylus's was finally his much-troubled son. for peke ended in death.
trilogy, it is, ironically, the mother Eugene, Jr. who went through ,d
against whom the crime is com- with the taking of his own life. We know and feel that O'Neill
mitted instead of the father- Eugene O'Neill the father, though was great. and yet it seems almost
quite contrary to Greek tragic he came close to it in his youth, possible that a man so wrapped
form. In Electra, however, O'Neill could never really bring himself to up s his own problems, ignoring
s acone to a coipionisse He has suicide. completely the great contemporary
given up his search for religion But if death was not the answer icsuem n could c ptivate audiences
forever, but still is iimpursuit of to O'Neill's search for love and usnthemnnci in whirl he did.
mother-love and peace of mind. peace, what was there for him to Prof. Engel himself admits that
He is also in pursuit of these grasp? "intellectually and emotionally,
objectives in Moon for the Mis- Long Day's Tourney Into Night O Neill never progressed past
begotten, written around 1940. seems finally to contain part of eiarly manhood. He did advance
which becomes quite maudlin in the answer which O'Neill sought, certain perceptions and probe into
an O'Neill brand of "nomism "In Prof. Engel asserts. Here, he s arious conditions, but in his style
this play, it is not O'Neill himself, seems to realize that perhaps his he was strained, turgid, awkward,
but his older brotlser 'iyrone whom mother's addiction was as much cft"1isisai culate and banal .
.sa . cosceised ian in is ssn
I ins""
aries, Arthur Miller and Tennes-
see Williams - and yet surpassed
them both.
Profound Trg edy'.
"MOST PEOPLE thought he was
dead, and that these younger
men had come to take his place,"
Prof. Engel continues. "But Miller
can not claim fame on the basis
of three works, and Williams,
though he has produced more, is
a smaller man.
"O'Neill wrote profound tragedy
and Williams writes merely of the
decadent. Because of this, but
much mrae important, because O'-
Neill is still very much alive, no
one will sit on the throne but
O'Neill."
At his best, Prof. Engel points
out, O'Neill still has the emo-
tional power and fury which make
his situations and characters
"bigger than life." When an
O'Neill play fails, of course, it
fails miserably, but when it clicks,
Journalism
(Continued from Page 14)
ably, encompassing Wono, who ad-
mits to "very little previous ex-
perience," and Azhar, who became
assistant to New York Times cor-
respondent John Callahan upon
graduation from the University' of
Karachi.
Among the previous Fellos
have been a sistant city editors,
iporters. columnists and even a
nevelist.
Leveling out differences and giv-
ing the Fellows practical worki; g
contact with American newspapers
is the internship part of the pro-
gram. The plan is to place the
journalists on different types of
newspapers, preferably in a small
rural community, a relatively new
industrial area and a metropolita
area where newspaper competitio
exists.
This gives a Fellow an oppor-
tunity to gradually become ac-
quainted with different levels of
economic, social and political de-
v-'opment along with a look 'at
varying newspaper setups and
techniques.
ok fo CASH!
'S BOOKSTORE
Yet, his contributi5is to litera-
ture and life easily i override this
Priof EsogT s ' e ser to point out.
ii trisoomes) the American
rs frosins a sshoswplace of sen-
timen, .t:l tr dy and trivia Into
a s foisrise perfoi nsce of
dest 'snd movin" emotion. Ie pre-
pAed the audiences to consider
ircsiolems of philosophical, psycho-
loical and religious nature N"sich
before had been quite forio' to
the stage. He prepared the way
for our best living contempor-
B UT MORE than this, the mov-
ing around and the diversity-of
communities gives the foreign stu-
dents a perspective on Americ'an
life far wider than is attainable
at any college or university.
"It's meeting people that reall
broadens one's horizons, and I ex-
peet to be a much better person
and journalist because of it," Az-
har said.
The value of the internships v's
also revealed in a letter to Pro.
MsiMaurer from Herman Besseli :,
Grad., a Fellow svo returned
continue his studies at the Un
vesrsity after his internship,
Now a Resident Adviser of Kel-
sey House in South Quadrangle,
" Besselink wrote, "most Fellows
came from areas where group life
of almost any kind is colored by
a strong sense of togetherness.
This social climate, often having
EUGENIE O'NEILL paternalistic overtones, can to' a
..,Pulitzer playwright certain extent be found in the
newspaper offices where they used
it is magnificent and makes us to work. Fortunately, similar atti-
quite willing to forget that he is tudes can, almost by definition, be
at times a bit "inarticulate and found in American colleges.
sophomoric."
Eugene- O'Neill, reaching for- "Howeveronce the Fellow's
ward to grasp life's secret truths behind they are often in tf a
presents the picture of a wonder-s behisurprhey.aTeyoften indftha
fully triumphant, heroic character les surprses They will find tot,
whom one is happy and proud t toether does not necessarily mean
admire. Prof. Edwin Engel does. toe'serndoestnone anitheag
He concludes his book: "Himself people' intei est in one another go
a victim of the time, O'Neill beyond the news room's doorstep;'
struggled more heroically-with that their co-workers value theii
greater courage, strength, deter- privacy of others, and that no-
ininationo-thanodid most of Isisprvcofthsadhtnni
hi' professional relationships will have
protagonists. His example, his to be built up on other grounds
best plays, his powerful influence, than the mere fact of working to-
are a measure of his triumph." gether.
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the boat rather than to speed
in miles per hour. Sailboats rare-
ly exceed a speed of 15 miles per
hour, and this is reached only
by very large sailing ships.
(BUT ON the water, the sailor is
entirely divorced from the rest
of the world. None of the odors
and sounds of man's mechanical
world reach the boat once it is
there.
Mechanically, there is too much
to sailing to be explained here,
Sailing is not a difficult art to
acquire. Books have been written
telling How-To-Sail but sailing,
once mastered, is done more by
feel than by rules learned from
a book.
Sailing does not sharpen the
mentality, improve one's physical
wellbeing or provide material re-
ward. For the sailor, its rewards
are greater. It bestows a feeling
of completeness and of harmony
etween man and nature.
RONICALLY, it was the Anoeri-
can emphasis on work that
made the deepest impression on
most of the journalists. Dounia
Mrowa, from Beirut, Lebanon said
when she finished her internship
in 1953 that "Americans really
work very, very hard; in fact, they
are so preoccupied with their work
that they don't have time to enjoy
what they worked so hard for.'/
While the Fellows get a year of
working on various papers, they
usually spend three months at
each one. During that time inte-
gation is promoted, Elwood Lohela,
wire editor of the Ann Arbor News
and part-time University instruc-
tor said.
"Newspapers that take on For-
eign Fellows are willing to work
with them, realizing the spirit' of
making them more efficient practi-
tioners of journalism." He de-
scribed how the newspapermen
made a point of taking the Fellows
out for coffee, inviting them, to
their homes and giving them any
available complimentary ticke to
concerts and plays.
Summing up the two-way value
of the exchange, Lohela said "it
not only gives the working news
paperman in the United Sta
chance to imbibe the foreign sce
but it also gives the Foreign'
:ow a chance to see grass roota
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