University Daily Kansan, January 30, 1984
Page 5
Lear
continued from p.1
What, worse and worse. (Merchant of Venice)
You see, Will, according to a Nielsen poll released last week, the average American household runs its television seven hours and two minutes a day, so you know they're watching something. They just choose not to watch King Lerar. Anita Jacob, Eldorado junior, told me, "It depends what else is on television. That would be my last choice."
Past hope, past cure, past help. (Romeo and Juliet)
Yeah. And she also said she would rather watch "Magnum P.I."
O, horrible, O, horrible, most horrible!
(Hamlet)
Monica Kizer, Omaha freshman, said she was going to watch "Cheers."
This was the most unkindest cut of all. (Julius Caesar)
But, when you think about it, Will, this is a natural consequence of what television has been doing for the past 30 years. It's also a consequence of the current educational trend.
David M. Bergeron, professor of English and member of the editorial board of the Shakespeare Quarterly, said that television is in the business of giving people want, and they need to unwatch challenging TV. "It's a self-fulfilling process, 'Trash breeds trash.'"
"Another problem is vocational, career-oriented education. If we look at things only as they are immediately useful to us, that way madness lies."
He said further that people's aversion to your work is "attributable to an inadequate exposure in the past. Young students are taken on a forced march through Shakespeare."
The time's so sick, that present medicine must be ministered, or overthrow incurable ensues. (King John)
Bergeon said the situation can be cured if people begin to realize that the themes of your plays aren't lost in the dust of four centuries. "The issues in 'King Lear' are as pertinent to today as they can possibly be," he said. "the sounds like a sociological study; he off the press, he is life after a job, is often caught up with what we call cultural. The further along we get, the more we realize that those antique fables are pertinent."
With what a sharp-provided wit he reasons!
(Richard III)
But we continue to prefer bad television and plan only for our place in the job market.
so should my papers, yellowed with their age, be scorned, like old men of less truth than tongue. (Sonnet 17)
And here we sit. We've posed the question and only suggested answers, and it's almost dawn, the time when you ghosts head on back to wherever you spend your days. Before you leave, could you tell me one . . .
Fare the well at once! The glow-worm shows the matin to be near, and gins to pale his unfeeuctual fire. Adieu, adieu, adieu! Remember me (Hamlet)
Larry Funk/KANSAN
KU fans react to the introduction of the K-State players during Saturday's game. A crowd of 15,200 watched the Jayhawks.
Reagan continued from p. 1
During the past three years, Reagan said, the American people were "magnificent as we pulled the nation through the long night of our national calamity."
SOUNDING WHAT IS likely to be the central theme of his campaign, Reagan, who celebrates his 73rd birthday next week, said that three years ago he took the helm of a nation "on the brink of economic collapse from years of government overindulgence and abusive overtreatment."
The nation, he said, was "in the worst economic mess since the great depression."
"Well, things have changed," he said. "This past year inflation dropped down to 3.2 percent."
Interest rates are cut nearly in half. Retail sales rate is down, and sold Auto assembly lines are opening up.
"In just the last year, 4 million people have found jobs — the greatest employment gain in 33 years," Reagan said. Reaction to Reagan's expected announcement
Reaction to Reagan's expected announcement divided along party lines.
House Speaker Thomas O'Neill attacked Reagan for "esclaring the arms race" and having "divided our country between rich and poor."
"HE HAS NOT BEEN fair, and the people know it." Neill said in a written statement after the election.
years of danger, four more years of pain "
"Senate Republican leader Howard Baker, who had been considered a possible candidate had Reagan not run, said he was pleased with Reagan's decision and added: "He has clearly earned the right to win the job he began over and I pledge my whole hearted support for that effort."
First lady Nancy Reagan said she and her husband decided, together, on the re-election decision and proclaimed "I support him fully" comments were relayed by her press secretary.
IN INTERVIEWS last year, Mrs. Reagan was ambivalent about the prospect of a second term
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