Friday, December 1, 1961 University Daily Kansan
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Poet's Concept of 'Inscape' Discussed at Poetry Hour
The poetry of Gerald Manley Hopkins reflects his ability "to see in a given instant, the imminent glory of God in the creation at hand," an associate professor of English said yesterday.
Professor Franklyn Nelick spoke to about 80 students at the Poetry Hour. He traced the life of the English poet and explained the poet's concept of "inscape."
CONVERTED TO CATHOLICISM and eventually becoming a Jesuit priest in 1868, Father Hopkins was virtually unknown during his lifetime. Prof. Nelick said.
"Father Hopkins' first edition of works was published in 750 copies. It took 11 years to sell them," he said.
But today, he continued, Father Hopkins is remembered for his concept of "inscape," in which each object "is a manifestation of that being (God) which gives it form and motion."
PROF. NELICK ILLUSTRATED THIS CONCEPT by reading the following nameless poem written by Father Hopkins:
As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;
As tumbled over rim in roundy wells
Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's
Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;
Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:
Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;
Selves—goes itself; myself it speaks and spells;
Crying What I do is me: for that I came.
I say more: the just man justices;
Keeps grace: that keeps all his goings graces;
Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is—
Christ—for Christ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
To the Father through the features of men's faces.
But Father Hopkins was also a "scholar of language" who ap-
ted to make his poetry precise and distinct, Prof. Nelick co-
But Father Hopkins was also a "scholar of language" who attempted to make his poetry precise and distinct, Prof. Nelick continued.
"FATHER HOPKINS OFTEN RAN as many as five or six words together in a compound epithet (adjective)," he said.
He read the poem "The Windhover," as an example of this. The poem begins:
I caught this morning morning's minion, kingdom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding,
Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding
High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing in his ecstasy!...
Nuclear Test Ban Talks Fold; Delegates Leave
GENEVA — (UPI) — The chief American and British delegates to the nuclear test ban talks made an unsuccessful last minute personal bid to get Russia to end the conference deadlock, it was disclosed today.
U. S. delegate Arthur Dean and British delegate Joseph Godber called on Soviet delegate Semyon Tsarapkin at his villa last night, American delegation sources said. The visit came shortly after the British and American chief delegates had announced they were leaving the deadlock parley for visits home. They left today.
THEIR AIM WAS to get the Soviets to make some sign of compromise to get the conference off dead center. But the American sources said they found "absolutely no indication" that Moscow would alter its opposition to any kind of international control over a test ban arrangement.
The sources said Tsarapkin stood
Austria May Lose Neutrality-Pravda
MOSCOW — (UPI) — The Communist party newspaper Pravda declared today that Austria might lose its status as a neutral if it joined the European Common Market.
The paper said such a step could "merge into an economic and political alliance with Western Germany, which has been forbidden by the Austrian state treaty."
no maneuvers and assurances by the enemies of Austria's neutrality can conceal (this) fact," Pravda said.
"The Austrian public is anxiously attentive to the fact that the European Economic Community is an organization of political rather than economic character."
The report characterized the Common Market as the "economic basis of NATO."
by Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev's latest proposal for a test ban controlled only by national monitoring systems. He reaffirmed that he would have nothing new to add when he replies next week to a series of Anglo-American questions on Moscow's complete turnabout on previous agreements on controls.
Both Dean and Godber are to meet later with Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin at the United Nations disarmament talks in New York. Dean said he expected to discuss the test ban situation then.
The American sources indicated that both Dean and Godber would have changed their plans and stayed on in Geneva if the informal meeting with Tsarapkin had been even partially successful.
LEAVING GENEVA for New York this morning, Dean said he was prepared to return to the talks "on short notice," apparently still leaving the door open should the Soviets have a change of heart.
Godber told newsmen before he left for London that "we cannot go on talking about nothing, but it may be that this (new Soviet plan) is just their opening gambit."
The conference, now entering its fourth year, is hopelessly bogged down just four days after being resumed.
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SANTO DOMINGO. D. R. —(UPI)
—A truckload of troops forced its way through a crowd of women demonstrators with rifle shots and noise bombs today, injuring three or four women.
The injured were in a crowd of about one thousand en route to Independence Square to hear reports by opposition leaders on the general strike.
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IT WAS NOT immediately known whether the women were hurt by the gunfire or the noise bombs. The incident occurred only two blocks from the downtown street where an opposition follower was machine gunned to death by an unidentified bus rider yesterday.
Eye-witnesses said the rifle fire appeared to be directed in the air. Later, the other women regrouped and continued marching downtown. Many of them were weeping. Others were crying "strike, strike" and "murders, murderers."
Men on the sidewalk watching the women march cheered them for their courage.
Dominican Chief Tightens Grip; Opposition Confused
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The opposition general strike, aimed at toppling the government, appeared collapsing in the face of the stern military support for the regime.
Shops started opening downtown and the comparative handful of people on the streets were quiet and not attempting to forcibly halt traffic as in past days.
A light military plane flew over the city dropping copies of the armed forces' ultimatum of yesterday calling for an end to the political crisis on government terms. International telephone communications were restored this morning and public transportation seemed to be approaching normal.
Baustian, Wiemer To Give Concert
A KU student will be the featured artist in University Symphony's winter concert Sunday in University Theatre at 3:30 p.m.
Recital Monday
Fred Wiemer, Drumwright, Okla. senior, will play Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 with the symphony under the direction of Robert Baustian, associate professor of orchestra.
Prof. Baustian is making his first public appearance since his trip to Berlin and Yugoslavia in September when he shared the podium with Igor Stravinsky in conducting the Sante Fe Opera Company. He will lead the orchestra in Mozart's Symphony No. 39 in E Flat and Rimski-Korsakov's Suite from "Le Coq D'Or" to round out the program.
Miriam Stewart Hamilton, assistant professor of voice, will give her annual recital Monday in Swarthout Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
Prof. Hamilton, a soprano, has taught at KU since 1958 after a varied career of opera singing with the New York City Center Opera and summer theater. She has also sung in West Germany under the auspices of the State Department.
On Monday she will sing a Cantata by Scarlatti, a song of Schumann, "Frauenliebe und Leben," and some French and contemporary songs.
PRESIDENT JOAQUIN Balaguer warned last night that continued opposition to government formulas for a provisional government could mean "disaster and a new dictatorship" for the Dominican Republic.
Opposition groups, which have resorted to strike violence this week in their efforts to overthrow Balaquier, stood fast by their refusal to accept the junta, which would be headed by the president.
Maj. Gen. Pedro Rodriguez Echevarria, new chief of the armed forces, warned opposition leaders the army would not tolerate any further disorders like yesterday's effort by a howling mob to storm the Dominican "White House."
(IN WASHINGTON, the State Department called for "moderation and responsibility" in Dominican efforts to achieve democracy. It promised U.S."encouragement of
P-T-P Opens Drive For New Members
A goal of 1,000 has been set for the People-to-People membership drive scheduled to begin Monday.
Tu Jarvis, Winfield junior, explained the membership drive is being held to allow more students to work with foreign students.
He said many students are disappointed because People-to-People in its organizational stage has been unable to provide them with jobs.
"What we want to do now," he continued, "is to put this thing on a personal basis and get away from the mechanics of setting up the organization."
Jarvis said, "People-to-People is not something to work at as an activity to put on your record, it should be utilized for gaining a better international understanding."
He added, "We hope the program can be worked out better than in the past."
Some of the future plans for P-T-P are; investigating the possibility of an international lounge in the Kansas Union, programs for learning various athletic sports of other countries, banquets, picnics and forums.
Students can join P-T-P at either the Information Booth on Jayhawk Blvd, or in the Kansas Union next week.
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all responsible, peaceful efforts to secure freedom for the Dominican people.")
The junta plan advanced by leaders of the army, navy and air force proposed the creation of a seven-man committee headed by Balaguer to govern the Dominican Republic until elections are held in May.
The proposed junta would include Rodriguez and a Roman Catholic prelate not identified by name. The other four members were not identified immediately.
Balaguer made it clear that if the plan was not accepted he would govern with the support of the armed forces until his term expires in August.
As an alternative—also rejected by the opposition—the president suggested elections Jan. 26 for a provisional government which would run the country for two years.
APPARENT OPPOSITION indecision cast doubt on the future of the "general strike" which has been the focus of this week's violence.
The opposition UCN party urged the people last night to end the strike, but then reversed itself in response to what it described as demands from locals throughout the country for continuation of the walkout.
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