Sunday, March 30, 1958

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Alr ithgan Daily
MAGAZINE
Vol. IV, No. 6 Sunday, March 30, 1958
CONTENTS
THE SOUTH James Young Page 3
FRENCH POETRY _ Vernon Nahrgang Page 3
SGC CAMPAIGNING ___Jo Hardee Page 4
COEDS IN RUSSIA David Kessel Page 6
THE RECESSION _ _ Susan Holtzer Page 8
THE SUNSHINE STATE Donna Hanson Page 9
LOCAL ARTISTS' WORKS ___ Joan Kaatz Page 1B
UNDERGRADUATE LIBRARY Page 11
JACK KEROUAC Keith DeVries and
Donald A Yates Page 12
TRAVEL GUIDES -_Donald A. Yates Page 13
SENATOR KENNEDY _-..Thomas Turner Page 14
THE PIZZAIUOLO Barton Huthwaite Page 16
RADIATION RESEARCH .____John Axe Page 17
PAKISTAN .-Rose Perlberg Page 18
MAGAZINE EDITOR: CAROL PRINS
PICTURE CREDITS--Cover; Bruce Bailey; Page 4: Sketches by -
Gen Leland; Page 6: Photos by lzora Corpman and Patricia Doss;
Page 8: Political Cartoon by Robert Snyder; Page 9: Photographs
by Fred Shippey; Page 10: Daily photos by Dave Arnold; Page t 1:
Daily photos by Bruce Bailey; Page 2; Photo courtesy of The
Grove Press; Page 14: Cartoon courtesy of The Ronald Press Coa;
Page 17: Daily photo by Harold Gassenheimer; Page 18: Daily
photo by Robert Kanner
AN THOLOGY:
FRENCH POETRY

THE SOUTH
"Epitaph for Dixie" Echoes the Liberal's Plight
EPITAPH FOR DIXIE. By Har- intellectual process. For a century behalf of a moderate approach to
ry Ashmore. W. W. Norton. and a quarter the racial problem integration. Men like Ashmore or
New York. 189 pp. $3.50. had a stultifying effect on free Ralph McGill of the Atlanta Con-
inquiry throughout the region; stitution are few and far between.
By JAMES YOUNG when the anti-slavery intellec- Most Southern editors tend to
EPITAPH FOR DIXIE is a pene- tuals were driven from the area stand at the bar of a country club
trating analysis of the prob- and the Mason-Dixon line be- that does not admit "Negroes,
lems that gave rise to last Septem- came a barricade against the free Catholics, Jews or poor Protes-
ber's integration difficulties in flow of ideas, integration became tants" and assume that they are
Little Rock, and a prognosis of the an off limits topic for southern listening to the voice of the people.
future of the South. thinkers.
starry Asimore is a a a t i ve RALPH KILPATRICK, step-
Southerter, bor its Sooth Caro- v HEN the Dean of the School father of the doctrine of inter-
of Education at the Univer- position and editor of the Rich-
'iirao Liberal,_ isnpolysit... hryhas
been a personal assistant to Adlai city of South Carolina talked in mond News Leader, writes as if
E. SIevenson and isa diretor of terms of a proeram of gradual in- there had been no fundamental
the Fund for the Republi tegration he was summarily forced change in the theory of federalism
It is the domnsInc of she radi- from his job. Six University of since the time when John C. Cal-
cal racial element that is prom- Alabama professors resigned their houn led the Old South in its
inent theme of piltrh Fer Dixie. jobs as a protest against the fight against Yankee dominence.
A majority of white Southerners, handling of the Autherine Lucy Other Southern conservatives
while cectainly not in favor of j incident. However, few university take refuge in the old and sadly
integration, at least perceive the people are willing to take such irrelevant argument that the
desperate teed to escape from the drastic action. plight of the northern Negro is
impasse in which the rion finds Rather, they tend to choose even worse th Shat of his southe
itself. But this majority cannot less controversial path, keep si ta bothe. Sothel ue
function without guidance. 'It re- lent, and let it be known in pro- stands the Negro and given tde
mains impotent because it remains fessional circles that they are it will work out its own problems
for the most part, without public open to offers from northern without outside intervention.
or private leadership." This failure schools. Unfortunately, the facts do not
leaves a gap which the White Citi- Other opinion leaders are doing support this claim. The region was
sens Councils and the Ku Klux no better. Few newspaper editors given time by the Supreme Court
Klan are more than happy to fill, have either the inclination or the when it provided for integration
courage to speak out clearly on (Cntioed on Page 1)
T HE SOUTHERN Manifesto ex -__________ __ ___________
pressing the support of an
overwhelming m a j o r i t y of the
South's congressional delegation
for a last ditch resistance move-
ment against integration is a
monument to this default. In an
rexample of political ineptitude
seldom surpassed in recent years,
the signatories not only under-
mined their own party, but also
severely damaged the chances of
their choice for the Democratic
presidential nomination, Adlai E.
Stevenson.
One might expect southern in-
tellectuals to provide the guidance
so badly needed, but here as with
the political leadership, the situa-
tion is not at all bright. The ?
South has now developed an edu-
cational system which permits at
least a minimum exposure to the
fruits of learning for all. Its uni-
ver-sities are very good if not ab- SU ITS
solutely top flight. On the other
f hand, Ashmore still maintains the
region is basically hostile to the _Q1O44 -9

AN ANTHOLOGY OF FRENCH
POETRY FROM NERVAL TO
VALERY IN ENGLISH
TRANSLATION. Edited by
Angel Flores. 458 pp. Garden
City: Doubleday Anchor
Books. $1.45.
By VERNON NAHRGANG
Daily City Editor
IN PUTTING together a very
competent anthology of French
poetry of the nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries, editor Angel
Flores has wisely made a collec-
tion of translations by a large
number of English and American
poets rather than attempting to
write new English versions of the
French verse.
As the title indicates, this an-
thology has been prepared for the
English reader; its selections are
careful translations that stand as
poetry themselves, verse that is
meaningful and expressive to the
reader who knows little or no
French.
The English reader should fur-
thermore be concerned with this
period in the history of French
literature.
TIHE SELECTIONS are important
ones. Nerval, Baudelaire, Cor-
biere, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mal-
larme, Laforgue, Apollinaire and
Valery are the poets represented,
each with an introductory bio-
graphical note and a substantial
bibliographical listing.
Included with the English ver-
sions of the chief works of these
poets are the French texts, ar-
ranged at the back of the book for
ready comparison-and suggesting
at the same time that the com-
parison be made.
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Indeed, this anthology further
suggests a comparative study of
French and English poetry with
emphasis on translation - as
handled by a variety of transla-
tors; Angel Flores' book would
make a fine text for such a study
In many ways, the greater under-
standing of a foreign literature
comes with an examination of the
differences in emphasis and ap-
proach in the two literatures.
And this selection of writings
with a number of attractive prose
translations often more telling
than the poetry, makes a con-
venient manual for the under-
standing and appreciation o
French poetry of recent years.

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