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University Daily Kansan Thursday. Oct. 29, 1959
Docking's Football
Gov. George Docking kicked off his favorite political football yesterday as he issued instructions for the preparation of the budget.
From his statements it is evident that he has every intention of finishing this term with the oft-mentioned surplus, estimated to exceed 15 million dollars, still in the treasury.
This is good politics. Voters like economy. And as one man said of the governor, there is nothing wrong with being thrifty.
But there is something wrong with it when a person pursues thrift of and for itself and for no other reason than its voter appeal. The harm comes when necessary expenditures are eliminated when money for them is available.
Expenditures that will be eliminated if the governor has his way include money, above the Regents' request, for additional buildings at state schools. This is needed to handle the anticipated enrollment increase.
Logically, a truly stepped-up building program could be financed from the surplus. But the governor is unyielding on this point.
"The availability of money received from unnecessary taxes levied in previous years gives no excuse for seeking new programs to spend it," he said.
From this it also is clear that he thinks taxes are too high and will ask for a cut. But for our money, we can't see the governor using the surplus to reduce taxes.
Instead, he will trim department budgets to the minimum and conserve by frugal administration. The surplus will remain untouched, gathering dust and votes, until it has served its purpose at election time.
For, whether or not the governor chooses to run again, he and his party will be able to "point with pride" to this bag of coins, confident of an appreciative electorate. George DeBord
A Warning
(This is an open letter to the "Four from the Seats without Feets Club")
I was quite disturbed (mad was closer to my state of mind) when I read your letter in last Wednesday's UDK. You were entirely in the right.
Section 4, clause e. of the ASC bill on Athletic Seating states, in part, that there shall be no "violation of the principle of first-come, first served with respect to seating of students." The bill makes it quite clear that there shall be absolutely no seat saving or reserving of sections except for such uniformed groups as the band and the pep clubs which are approved by the ASC Athletic Seating Board.
If you (or any other students) are ever confronted with such a situation again, notify the campus police officer on duty at the stadium and he will make those who are guilty cease such practice and take the offenders' IDs. If the offenders refuse to cooperate, they may be removed from the stadium by said officer and are punishable by Section 21-717 of the General Statutes of Kansas of 1949 if they physically object.
As to the verbal conduct of these violaters, I can only call on trite expressions and unprintable words to reprimand those men (Oh! pardon me, I mean BOYS).
I hope that this letter will serve as a warning to future offenders
and a means of recourse to future victims.
Wally Brauer
Wally Brauer Athletic Seating Board
Reviewer Is Reviewed
Editor:
Well, Mr. (Stuart) Levine has finally done it. I hate to write criticisms of critics, because everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but this is too much. As a devotee of the arts, I read the critics' column quite often. For the past two to three years, I have watched it rise and fall in stature according to the maturity of its contributors. Mr. Levine has not only regressed this column to an embryonic state, but has, in addition, caused a recession in the quality of musical criticism, the like of which the country has not felt since the passing of Mr. Olin Downs.
I would like to give Mr. Levine the benefit of the doubt and believe that his reference to Mr. Bream as a "dilettante" and "gentleman amateur" was to be inferred as a compliment, inasmuch as these terms, in centuries past, were applied to such notables as Mozart, Bach and Beethoven. But Mr. Levine's use of the adjectives "vapid" and "unconvincing" make this stretch of the imagination difficult. ("Impressive technician"—Bah!)
Correct facts are not only important to a newspaper's reputation but also add much to a critic's store of comparative information. Mr. Bream said before the entire audience and, I believe, Mr.
Levine too, (although of the latter I am not absolutely certain) that he had transcribed the Bach suite for the guitar from Bach's score, which was written for a 24-string lute, not a mere 13-string type, if such exists.
That Mr. Levine thought Mr. Bream played it "well" is a saving of grace for the promiscuous "critic." I have never heard Chopin played on a calliope, but if the great impresario, Sol Hurok, thought enough to sponsor a man of Mr. BREAM's talent to play Ravel on a guitar, maybe Mr. Levine's calliope talent can likewise be displayed.
I will not lend any more credibility to Mr. Levine's critique than I have already done. I would rather repeat the words of an elderly gentleman heard backstage after the concert. He said that this was the most sensitive playing on the lute and guitar he has ever heard.
The man turned out to be a noted talent agent and booker from Kansas City, who has been in the classical music entertainment field for more than 40 years. Of course he and Sol Hurok are "antiquarians," so how valid can their opinions be?
I sincerely hope that our latest music critic, who also dabbles in instructing English, remembers Francis Jeffrey's opening line in his review of Wordsworth's "Excursion."
—Don Kissil
New York, N.Y.
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The whistle has been blown. (See related editorial.)
Miss Peggy Klee, a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority, was crowned Miss Watermelon Bust of 1959.-University of Cincinnati News Record.
I would almost regard an increase in taxes (state) as an antisocial act by the legislature—Manuel Gottlieb, associate professor of economics.
A specter haunts our culture—it is that people will eventually be unable to say, "They fell in love and married," let alone understand the language of Romeo and Juliet, but will as a matter of course say, "Their libidinal impulses being reciprocal, they activated their individual erotic drives and integrated them within the same frame of reference." —Lionel Trilling
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Miss Deutsch appears to belong to that small but not insignificant tradition of modern poetry in rebellion against the esoteric free-verse period that gained its popularity in the 1920s. Her verse, for the most part, is restrained in its tone, more compassionate than passionate, and requiring a very carefully chosen technique. In short, she is able to work within the limitations of different forms while achieving a kind of quiet music that harmonizes perfectly with her themes.
By Stanley J. Solomon Department of English
The language of her poetry is at once witty and contemporary without ever resorting to prosaic colloquialisms. I think she is at her best in the many very solemn (and paradoxically, very humorous) poems about animals. She sees the bull who is not fortunate enough to die in a bullring as
This book offers a selection of Miss Deutsch's poetry written between 1919 and the present, and also includes some translations of such poets as Pushkin, Rilke, and Pasternak.
The homely husband to a score of cows.
Yet monstrous as a myth, his front denies
COMING OF AGE, by Babette Deutsch, Indiana University Press. $3.95.
His humbled horns, as, hugely male, he stands
He hammed horns, as,ugely male, he star Hung with endurance as with iron weights.
Clustering flies mate round his red-rimmed eyes.
And an ape in a cage is compared to a beggar who
And fails. He grips the bars; his pained stare grows To a brown study framed in dusty fur. . . The eyes, poor sorrow's jewels, seldom wink. But to his grinning public, as before. Show endless notifiene, endlessly shurped
Not many modern poets could write the poetry of a zoo, nor would care to do so. But poetry exists where the poet finds it, and it is to Miss Deutsch's credit that she is able to find a significant metaphor for the human condition.
Show endless patience, endlessly abused.
The volume is further distinguished by the title poem which is, unfortunately, the only long poem (though less than two-hundred lines) as well as the finest in the collection. The poems, in general, bear the mark of a true poet—one who is able to think in poetry; that is, Miss Deutsch perceives the world in images and can communicate her feeling in a very sensitive manner.
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