Thursday, Sept. 15. 1960 University Daily Kansan Page 7
Spectrum Superb
SPECTRUM. Volume I. number 2, Fall 1960.
Reviewed by
Reviewed by Francis H. Heller
Associate Dean of the College
The second issue of the University's literary-academic magazine is off the press. It is a good job. It is literary, it is academic — a fine blend of humor and seriousness, and a balanced mixture of able student writing and the products of more experienced writers. In short, the high standards set by the first issue have been capably maintained.
THERE ARE SEVEN FICTIONAL pieces and five articles in this issue. I thought that James W. Douglass, in "Absalom, Son of David," recaptured a good deal of the fascination of style of James Joyce. John Clements Davis is one of three SPECTRUM prize winners in this issue and he gets my vote for "Charlie's Generator." George J. Beier's "Ghost Story" is a trifle conventional by now but does a good job of building to a climax. On the other hand, George DeBord's "The Last Knight" struck me as a labored, rather sophomoric contrivance.
FRED RITTER REWROTE his Summerfield paper into an even more trenchant attack on positivism than the original I saw last spring. Together with Professor DeGeorge's plea for more contemplation, it should prove a fertile basis for discussion by serious groups.
In its own way, each of the five articles deserves praise. Jon Muller's brief satire on "The Follicle Mite and Hair Styles" has a fine touch of humor. There is a discussion of "Primaries and Party Bosses" by the veteran political observer W. G. Clugston that should be required reading in Political Science 1. And, perhaps because the subject is one I teach and about which I have done some writing of my own. I am glad to see the prominence given to Mr. Williams' eloquent speech on "The Bill of Rights—Today."
Let me also mention Gary Sick's letter from Morocco—I trust the editors plan to continue this series of letters from KU graduates in foreign lands. And lastly, but by no means the least, let me say that I liked Tom Eaton's cartoons and Bret Waller's woodcuts.
All in all, it's a baggain for fifty cents!
Worth Repeating
There is probably no more shameful part in the history of American religion than its complete abdication from any effort to help American slaves - it only undertook activity when asked by the slavemasters, who thought religion might help keep the slaves docile.-Nathan Glazer
Culture is like a match burning in infinite darkness.—Bernard Berenson
Who — aside from certain big children who are found in the natural sciences — still believes that the findings of astronomy, biology, physics or chemistry can teach us anything about the meaning of the world?—Max Weber
"Huckleberry Finn" is essentially a book about a marginal American type, who only wants to stay alive; but who does not find this very easy to do, being assailed on one side by forces of violence, which begrudge him the little he asks, and on the other by forces of benevolence, which insist that he ask for more. Against the modesty and singleness of his purpose, everything else is measured and weighed: religion, the social order, other men. — Leslie Fiedler.
Poetry is a part of you. You don't create it. You listen to it, and you give it form . . . It is a lonely art that must be self-taught. — David McCord
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