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University Daily Kansan Thursday. Nov. 14, 1957
Watch My Entrechat
(Editor's note: Tired of long-winded arguments for attending cultural events? In this article, John Schmiedeler, Salina Journal reporter, gives a down-to-earth explanation of why he plans to attend a ballet performance.)
Monday night it's time for another session.
I'm going up the hill to Marymount (College, Salina.) to watch a professional ballet company in the college's splendid Fine Arts Theater.
I've enjoyed my brief acquaintances with Art and Culture and recommend them highly as an antidote to the fears of Sputnik, Muttnik and the tax bill.
Except for watching a few, short sequences on television, I'm uninformed about ballet. My friends who know about such things tell me I'll enjoy the experience.
Monday night it's time for another session.
Monday night it's time for another session. My friends also advance some interesting theories about ballet.
If the theories are right, I may be pirouetting up the aisle before the performance is through.
These balletomanes insist the ballet, contrary perhaps to back-country conception and certainly at odds with what I had believed, is more
popular among the male audience than women. It's not just because the pretty girl dancers wear short skirts, either, although that can hardly be said to disinterest most of the men I know.
Detroit, Mich., for example, is known as a man's town. The ballet is tremendously popular there; the men buy the tickets and urge the wives to attend with them, which is quite a switch indeed.
My friends say this is because the dance is the oldest art form of the human race. Long before the caveman scrawled drawings on the walls of his hole, he was dancing, expressing his passions in leaps, bounds and pantomime. Ballet is a considerable refinement of this primitive cavorting but there remains a fundamental connection between this expression and the audience.
We react to ballet. There's a kind of kiuetic relationship between us and the dancer. We want to move and perhaps subconscious do, as the dancer moves. It's described as something like watching a halfback get clobbered: you can feel the impact setting in the stands.
Men, the theory holds, react more intensely to this relationship than do women.
My friends advise not to fight this thing. Just sit back and enjoy it. But be careful of my entrechat.
. . Letters To The Editor
Need Track News
When I first came to KU, I heard that they had a great track and cross-country team. I apparently was misinformed as The Daily Kansas doesn't even consider them good enough to print their picture. One would think that when a varsity team works as hard as the men on our cross-country squad do every day to win the Big Eight championship and bring prestige to our school, the school's daily newspaper would at least show them due recognition by printing their picture. This is one of KU's few winning sports. Let's give them the consideration and gratitude they deserve.
Larry Hammond, St. Louis,
Mo., freshman, Wayne Sull-
wold, Minneapolis, Minn.,
freshman,
Editor:
LMOCer's Lament
As one of the so-called "hucksters" who met Senator Kennedy last week in Topeka, I was highly amused by your editorial Friday. But when I started thinking, "What if this boy ever graduates and is hired by a newspaper? What about the paper's readers who are to be
dependent on him for facts?" Mr. Boston violated one of a journalist's most important obligations to his readers, to present the truth to the public.
He wrote the editorial from a rumor he heard. No attempt whatever was made to contact any of the principals involved to check on the authenticity of the story. I should like to ask publicly who said we burst into a press conference Wednesday night?
Since you are reduced to using such cheap material as "fill" for your paper, I would like to list the FACTS.
1. I spoke personally last Tuesday with the Governor's secretary who gave the O. K. to our interview with Senator Kennedy.
2. The 'phony endorsement' Sen, Kennedy gave Bob Terrill was witnessed by five or six people, including the Governor.
3. We didn't break into any press conference; we were in the hotel 30 minutes before the conference started.
4. We weren't even in Topeka Wednesday night.
Before rushing into print in the future, I suggest that your paper might check the validity of any stories you get thirdhand. If Mr. Boston is so eager for a by-line that he
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
. . .
sacrifices truth for sensationalism, I further suggest that his journalistic talents be confined to something for which he is more capable, such as sweeping the press room floor.
Warner H. Sorensen
Kansas City Kan senior
Kansas City, Kan., senior (Editor's note; Editor Boston's editorial was based on the original account of the Topeka expedition, as told to Kansan executives by LMOCers as a "news" story. Until the campaigners back down on that story, the editorial stands as is.)
"REMEMBER? I SAID THE TEST WOULD BE OVER CLASS DISCUSSIONS!"
Short Ones
"The Naked Aucas" — The Brooks Brothers
It has come to our attention that many best-sellers hold titles that would be better authored by other, more fitting, authors. We submit:
"By Love Possessed" — Roberto Rosellini
"The Hidden Persuaders" -- Jimmy Hoffa
"Across the River and Into the Trees" — Artie Shaw
"The Organization Man" — L.M.
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"Silver Spoon" — Henry Ford Jr.
"Rascals in Paradise" — panty raiders
"Where Did You Go? "Out
"What Did You Do?"
"Nothing." — any housemother
"The Age of Steam" — Sen. James O. Eustland
"Profiles in Courage" — KU pedestrian
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