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Members of Alpha Delta Pi woke up this morning to find that a springtime Santa Claus had visited them during the night.
Santa Makes Spring Visit, Leaves Small Cars
CLICKETY-CLACK—Cervantes Day dancers click castanets in time to lively music. They are, from left in front, Janet Presutti, instructor of physical education, Wellsville, Ohio, and Cecil Torz, New York, N.Y.; in back, Roberto L. Diaz, Cuba sophomore, and Victor N. Baptiste, Kansas City, Kan., assistant instructor of Romance languages. The Cervantes events will be tomorrow.
fingerprints on the cars, only flat tires.
Two small foreign cars were parked at the door. There were no
Owner of one car is Sandra Rickards, Wichita Falls, Tex., sophomore, a member of the sorority. Mary Jane Carter, Danville, Ill., junior, is the owner of the other.
A Welshman told the group gathered at Poetry Hour yesterday that "fantasy is one topsy-turvy way of looking at heaven."
Fantasy Defined by Author
William B. Ready, librarian of Marquette University, thus defined fantasy along with comments on the wrongs in American society as he discussed J. R. R. Tolkien's epic fantasy, "The Lord of the Rings."
"Stories of fantasy are concerned with absolute truth. In fantasy there gleams the true light which shines through the window of home that is waiting for us," he said.
"It is only today that fantasy is coming into its own," he continued. Mr. Ready explained that the theme of the three volume, 1,800 page "The Lord of the Rings," is a shadow of power that hangs over the world today.
"The circle of the mushroom is represented by a ring in the book," he said.
"The greatest proof of the quality of this book is its depth. The characters have dimension and you see them more clearly as you grow in grace and wisdom," he commented. "Today the Christian message comes through for men like Tolkien. Religion is something which makes
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people interested in fantasy," he stated.
"In 'The Lord of the Ring,' the problem of power over good and evil takes on a majesty that is difficult to believe before you read it."
VIVE LE POPCORN!
The other day as I was walking down the street picking up tinfoil, (Marlboro, incidentally, has the best tinfoil, which is not surprising when you consider that they have the best cigarettes, which is not surprising when you consider that they take the best filters and put them together with the best tobaccoes and rush them to your tobacco counter, fresh and firm and loaded with smoking pleasure). The other day, I say, as I was walking down the street picking up tinfoil, (I have, incidentally, the second largest ball of tinfoil in our family. My brother Eleanor's is bigger—more than four miles in diameter—but, of course, he is taller than I). The other day, as I was saying, while walking down the street picking up tinfoil, I passed a campus and right beside it, a movie theatre which specialized in showing foreign films. Most campuses have foreign movie theatres close by, because foreign movies are full of culture, art, and esoterica, and where is culture more rife, art more rampant, and esoterica more endemic than on a campus?
Nowhere; that's where.
I hope you have all been taking advantage of your local foreign film theatre. Here you will find no simple-minded Hollywood products, marked by treachy sentimentality and machine-made bravura. Here you will find life itself—in all its grimness, its poverty, its naked, raw passion!
Have you, for instance, seen the recent French import, Le Crayon de Mon Oncle ("The Kneecap"), a savage and uncompromising story of a man named Claude, whose consuming ambition is to get a job as a meter reader with the Paris water department? But he is unable, alas, to afford the flashlight one needs for this position. His wife, Bon-Bon, sells her hair to a wigmaker and buys him a flashlight. Then, alas, Claude discovers that one also requires a leatherette bow tie. This time his two young daughters, Caramel and Nougat, sell their hair to a wigmaker. So now Claude has his leatherette bow tie, but now, alas, his flashlight battery is burned out and the whole family, alas, is bald.
Or have you seen the latest Italian masterpiece, La Donna E Mobile (I Ache All Over), a heart-shattering tale of a boy and his dog? Malvolio, a Venetian lad of nine, loves his little dog with every fibre of his being. He has one great dream: to enter the dog in the annual Venetian dog show. But this, alas, requires an entrance fee, and Malvolio, alas, is penniless. However, he saves and scrimps and steals and finally gets enough together to enter the dog in the show. The dog, alas, comes in twenty-third. Malvolio sells him to a vivisectionist.
Or have you seen the new Japanese triumph, Kibutai-San (The Radish), a pulse-stirring historical romance about Yamoto, a poor farmer, and his daughter Ethel who are accosted by a warlord one morning on their way to market? The warlord cuts Yamoto in half with his samurai sword and runs off with Ethel. When Yamoto recovers, he seeks out Ethel's fiancé, Red Buttons, and together they find the warlord and kill him. But, alas, the warlord was also a sorcerer and he whimsically turned Ethel into a whooping crane. Loyal Red Buttons takes Ethel home where he feeds her fish heads for twenty years and keeps hoping she'll turn back into a woman. She never does. Alas.
© 1959 Max Shulman
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