…PE RSPECTIVES university Of Michigan Literary Magazine VOLUME IV, NUMBER 3 Supplement to THE MICHIGAN DAILY MARCH, 194 ETTA AND TE GRgEEKS ..by John F. Bingtey F YOU WERE a Kanuck you took music lessons from Madame Faverau. [If you were a Polack of a German cu took them from Miss Brunner, And if you were a Yankee you went up to Old Man Thayer's. We all went up to Old Man Thayer's and saved money using the same books Dad had played out of bec...…
…Page-Two 'P ERSPECTI VES _.. _" F y ETTA AND THE GREEKS ... by John E. Bin gley. ,and she accepted because "after all," as she said, "five dollars is five dollars." Nobody in town knew anything about the Greeks and so Etta could play the organ for them as secretly as she did her smoking, but their Good Friday service had gotten the best of her. The Greeks have an off-centered church year, so that their Easter comes at a different time than...…
…P RSRP C'T I V ES- Parbre 1,PA P AV LP A-, T- A a r .V TK~rA C A HERETIC LOOKS AT PAINTING ...by John Maxon . XTISTS of this generation are for- ever requiring explanation, and the great tradition of the apologist has dwin- dled into the mulings of a Christian Zer- os and babblings of a Sheldon Cheney. What is left to the mere spectator is a mass of material, either unintelligible or insulting. Modern art is in the degen- erate state whe...…
…Pge Four 'P E R S P EC T 1V E S THE' CONCERT... by James Jackson T UTTA RACCOLTA was to be the first number, and the audience swelled with anticipation. Here, far above the orderly heads of those in the orchestra, legs and arms fretted against close-confining seats. The milky lights blandly spying from the dome in the vaulted ceiling blinked against rising spouts of smoke which had seeped through entrance-wells in- to the great auditorium....…
…P E R S P E C T I V E7 Q Paire~~ K-'AX x4; , AI .cv age ze THE GA yE OF SOLITAIRE. by William Kehoe el ERNIE SAT SHUFFLING and re- shuffling a well-worn deck of cards. The design on the cards was a simple one, a white sail against a blue sky above a green sea. The blue was the vibrant shade it had always been, and the green too; but the white was now a smudgy gray. Bernie cut the cards and shuffled them leisurely once more and then set the...…
…Page six -PERSPECTI VES L wRnu , THE GREAT MAN AS THE PUBLIC'S MAN I If from your windows you can see him hustling In the house opposite, unlocking drawers Or shutting them and mysteries crowd your rind; Reflect: the possible, untold designs That circle him and center your attention Have neither soared nor snagged, his deeds remain Dubious, not yet measured nor performed And your smart windows in the four directions That eye him must await ...…
…IPERSPECTIYES Page Seven PERSECTIVES age rvE LIEBESLIEDCHEN (Munchner Handschrift): 13: Jahrhundert I ' Floret silva undique/ nah mime gesellen ist mir we/ Gruonet der walt allenthalben/ wa ist min geselle alse lange Der ist geritten hinpen owi/ we sol mich minnen II Auwe lip vor allem libe wie kunde ich daz verdinen umbe got und umbe dich / daz du/ vrouwe woldest minnen mich II , Chume/ chume/ gesselle min/ ih enbite harte din/ ih enbite ...…
…Puge Eight TPERSPECTIVES EPISODES IN THE PERPETRATION OF A DASTARDLY CRIME .by Dennis Flannagan DO NOT BELIEVE that you are ac- quainted with Catherine Shepherd, but if you are you must know the tragedy which has befallen her. There is a certain young man who has also heard this tragedy, and he undoubt- edly feels it much more deeply than you. It is a curious thing that he should feel thus; he has known Catherine Shepherd only slightly, and...…
…PERSPECTIVES _ jge Nine THE GAME OF SOLITAIRE .Continued from Page 5 listening intently, to the music, already begun, crashing upon the evening still- ness, to the sound of voices as cus- tomers neared the merry-go-round. "I found a million dollar baaabeeeee, in a five an' ten cent stooore .. . The customers came, young people like himself. He watched them enter the barn,, laughing, talking. Fellows in (lean white sport shirts and well-pre...…
…Page Ten TRSPECTIVES EPISODES IN THE PERPETRATION OF A DASTARDLY CRIME Continued from Page 9 and powerful. Finally George turned and walked out of the dance hall. With a look of angry but satiated pride Catherine turned to Jack Bishop and said, "If he gets any more wise ideas 'ike that you'd better tell him to keep them to himself." Episode Three . FTER HE WENT AWAY to college Jack necessarily saw George only at intervals of vacations, and ...…
…T ERSPECTI VES Page Eleven BOOKS. IN SEASON ---- ---- --- Portrait of the Artist As a Young Dog Dylan Thomas New Directions. Those of us who read The World I Breathe, Dylan Thomas's last book, were excited or disappointed or just puzzled. There was no uniformity of feeling about the book because there was little unity in Thomas's work. As a Welshman with a fine imagination and a knack of orig- inal expression in verse, he had hewn a olac...…
…Page Twelve TE RSPECTI VES BOOKS IN SEASON Sergeant Lamb's America Robert Graves Random House Oliver Wiswell Kenneth Roberts Doubleday, Doran & Co. Since the American Revolution, few novelists have attempted to do anything about the Tory point of view in that con- flict. The Guns of Burgoyne represents one effort along this line, an effort. however, which missed. But recently two successful novels, botltf holding a brief for the British si...…
