4 Friday. October 25. 1974 University Daily Kansan THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN OPINION Facultv Recital. Antonio Perez. baritone. By Kansan Photographer DAVE PETERSON Despite the futility of his vision, Solzhenitsyn succeeds in extolling the diabolical world of Russia's political prisoners under the dictatorship and its suppressive narrative of the Russian prison system up to 1956. Solzhenitsyn describes scatheingly "the only punitive organ in human history that combined in one set of hands the subjugation, interrogation, prosecution, trial and execution of the verdict." Solzhenitsyn describes with meticulous and nightmarish accuracy the sordid "physical The book is based on the author's personal experiences inside prison walls, a collection of myriad prison records and accounts of how prisoners processed through the archipelago of prison camps. The reader is afforded a vicarious experience as Solzenitsyn documents the sins committed by the Soviet secret police to "purge the Russian land of all harmful insects." Bullet biter should bargain When Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was first arrested more than 30 years ago in a crowded subway station, he considered crying out to his own family for their own omnipotence. He eschewed this opportunity because he said he had a "vague vision that sometime I would cry out to the 200 million people of Solzhenitsyn's vision as been only partially fulfilled. The publication of "The Gulag Archipelago" has circulated copiously on the free Internet of the world and been prohibited from reaching the hands of his countrymen. "The Gulag Archipilepage" by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsh. 606 pages. Hare & Row, $12.95 cloth cover, $1.95 paperback So, in the spirit of your speech and, I confess, few suggestions in the battle against inflation. And although it was a better buy than the Dear President Ford: This is my first letter to the White House, but your inflation-fighting suggestions in your recent Kansas City speech were so good I just had to write. And I want you to know that I am volunteering for the "great citizens" mobilization that you spoke about. Like you, I believe that we have a shared vision of what we want to do when we really want to do it." First of all, I was dismayed to learn that the nice Republicans you had coffee with the morning after the speech had to pay $1,000 to drink coffee. I think that is outrageous. Why, in Lawrence you can still get coffee for only 10 cents a cup. I suggest that next time you go to those people take your advice and shop around. The people who buy coffee. The delay would be inconvenient, but for a saving of $999.90, I think those fellows will just have to bite the bullet. THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN An All-American college newspaper Kansan Telephone Numbers Newroom—UN 4-4810 Business Office—UN 4-4358 By STEPHEN BUSER Book Reviewer Published at the University of Kansas weekdays during the academic year except holiday and exam days. **Lawyer:** Kurt 6005. Subscriptions to all mails are $8. **Lawyer:** Kurt 6005. Subscriptions to all mails are $8. **Lawyer:** Kurt 6005. Subscriptions to all mails are $1.35 a month, pass through the student activity Accreditation, goods services and employment regards the requirements of the Student Governing Body, necessarily those of the Student Society. The Student Society is not accredited for the University. Editor Eric Meyer Associate Editor Campus Editor Jeffrey Stinson Jill Wills Cupid Chiefs Carol Cunney and Eunny Miller Associate Campus Editor Craig Stock Assistant Campus Editor黛琳 Eilworth Editor and Alan Ames Chief Photographer Debbie Gumb Makeup Editor Jim Kendell. Makeup Editors Mark Mitchell and Sports Editor Mark Zeeman. Associate Sport Editor Jermine Sheldon Editors Jermine Sheldon Business Manager Steve Hughen Advertising Manager Assistant Business Manager Albie Bedeer Dana Riegel Classified Manager Gail Johnson Assistant Advertising Manager Debbie Arboree Assistant Classified Manager Steve Brownback Promotions Director Terry Kaka Marketing Manager Yulia 'Gulag' is outcry to mankind News Adviser Rosanne Shaw Business Adviser Mel Adams coffee. I think the people who paid $100 to breakfast with you that morning got ripped off too. I can understand that Kansas City prices are high, so I suggest they try Lawrence for breakfast too. I checked and you can get a deluxe breakfast that's cheaper than it is; it's a good idea to shop around. Maybe it'll get those Kansas City hotels and restaurants to lower their prices. I've also thought of an excellent way to save energy and money. Instead of flying around the country in Air Force One to make campaign speeches for Republican candidates, you could fly a Learjet, Cessna or Beech. This would save fuel and hangar space at airports. Besides, those planes are made here in Kansas. Using Kansas products could be a big help for Sen. Dole's campaign, and as you know, he can use all the help he can get. One more thing, Mr. President. This may seem insignificant, but I wish you would use your influence to have building and grounds here at the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, running full blast for weeks during this Indian summer. It's a terrific waste of energy and the newsroom is getting too hot for the office cat. Or better yet, you could tell all those candidates they'll have to get elected on their own. Then you could stay in Washington and really work on getting the votes, if they got angry, that we all have to do our part. Winningly yours, Craig Stock Associate Campus Editor Thank you for your attention, sir. measures of persuasion" authorized to be used during interrogation procedures. To coerce prisoners to accuse them of wrongdoing they had no knowledge, the interrogators implemented their satanic ingenuity to devise methods beyond the limits of human capacity and genitals with the "penalty kick," branding of the skin, submersement into cepesphils in darkness, heated cork-lined cells that produce sweat in the face in a prisoner's face and so on. After having read through the list of atrocties, the reader uncontrollably develops a nervous chill about his faith in mankind. Solzenhityn exclaims in anguish after retracing these incidents, "Brother mine! Do not condemn those who, finding you to be turned out to be weak and confessed more than they should have... Do not be the first to cast a stone at them." "Gulag" is laced continually with graphic visions of the massacre, as a account for the display of man's inhumanity to man saying, "Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth." The essence of "Gulag" is not centered on his sordid documentation of prison life but rather on Solzhenitsyn's own account of Lennin's benevolent rule and all that it stood for. He attacks vociferously the mockery of "show trials, "Lennin's orders to kill anyone who disrespects and the netherworld created by the Soviet secret police. The "Gulag" is the first of three volumes containing the initial two parts of a seven-part work. It is a lengthy book with small print. For the reader who is inhibited by print size and the number of pages in a book, it will be more than worth one's time. Speaking as a callow youth spared from the agonies of war or revolution, I am fortunate to have only encountered man's inhumanity in man in writing and not in reality. No doubt, Mr. Spencer was able to do so, but he has been silenced by advocates of detente. Regardless of politics, "Gulag" should be required reading for all. On stage RADIO, GREEEP AND FRIP- FRIIP and THE ADVENTRI- NS OF NYFM the SPIRITE PART I2—Halloween Spook Earrings at the Meade Hall Playhouse, 69% Massachusetts St.) GOSPELL. Highlight of the weekend. Excellent musical based on the Gospel, Music and theater. Directed by Stephen Shwartz. Directed by William Keeler. A potpourri of techniques, from mine to low comedy to metaphorical sim- plifications and sophistication. Perhaps the best musical the University has had in years. At 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Matinee at 2:30 p.m. in the University Theatre. This Week's ENTERTAINMENT FRACTURED FAIRY TALES FOR ADULTS—(At 8:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday at 10:30 a.m. Hall & Playhouse.) RUDIMENTARAN—An excellent one-act play by the late German playwright August Stramm. The play will be presented by the avant-garde playwright Werner Hoser. The performance is completely in German. Sponsored by the International Theatre Arts Commission and supported by the languages and literature. (At $8 p.m. Monday in the University theatre.) THE DEVILS—Based on Aldous Huxley's novel "The Devils of London," this is an effort by director Ken Russell of bizarre fiction, at times fantastic, at times it can turn the stomach. Men are burned and people are tortured in gory realism. Vanessa Redgrave is a more caricatured writer, who she can be, and Oliver deresdes to be burned at the stake. A lesson in confusing art and bad taste. (At 7 and 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Mutines at 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. In woodruff Auditorium.) WIZARD OF OZ—One of the great MGM musicians starring the wonderful Judy Garland singing, among others, "Over the Rainbow." There are also two who have never seen this great film on screen to do with. Frank Morgan and Ray Bolger. On screen Directed by Victor Fleming. (At 1:30 p.m. Sunday in Woodruff Auditorium.) KIND HEARTS AND CORONETES—Tongue-inchee 1950 English comedy, Starring Ace Guinea and Dennis Price. Directed by Hamer. (At 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Woodward Auditorium.) TOUCH OF EVIL—Mystery and intrigue make this 1968 Orson Wells' film among his most entertaining works. It is also the only one that was popular at the box office. Starring Wells, Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Marlene Dietrich and Mercedes Bertone, it is recommended. (At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Woodruff Auditorium.) THE SKY ABOVE, THE MUD BELLOW-Excellent 1961 travelogue-adventure about New Guinea. Directed by Gelsemann Glasselman. (At 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Woodruff Auditorium.) 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY- Kanley Rubick's masterpiece about *space travel*. Beautiful musical score by Strauss and Wagner, which mendation even if this is the twelfth time it has been in town in the last three years. (At 7:30 and 9:00 p.m. through Tuesday. Matinees 2:30 p.m. Saturday matters at the Granada Theatre.) THE LONGEST YARD—Burt Reynolds has true starpresence. He can crack jokes and laugh, even in serious when it is required. Eddie Albert also turns in a good performance as the warden, but it is Reynold's film work, not his film worth seeing. Directed by Robert Aldrich. Highly recommended. (At 7:30 and 9:50 p.m. through Tuesday. At 10:30 p.m. on Sunday at the Hillebrand 1.) KING OF HEARTS—Excellent 1967 film about what happens to members of an arsenal asylum for children. French town during World War I. Third week in town—thatStarting Alan Bates and Genel Builod. Highly recommended. At (7:15 and 9:30 p.m.) through Tuesday. Matinees 2:15 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the THE PLAYMATS=Help President Ford battle inflation. Save money. Save time. Don't waste your money. Wear a jacket and 15 p.m. on Thursday. 'Woman'exhibit superb In concert Variations along this line appear throughout the show but are most pronounced in Elen The photographic prints portray woman to be beautiful, sensuous, emotional, wicked, wise, maternal, soft, full of grace. This is by far a limited range of excellent portraits. A diversity of printing techniques are used. In every print the technique appears to work well with the subject matter, especially in Richard A. Matthew's print "Rite of Spring," which is done in infrared tones that give the "Subject: Women," now showing at the Museum of Art, beautifully exhibits the vast variety of techniques, diversity, and because of the variation of techniques and subject matter is the highest quality show that has been presented to the Museum this semester. Matinees 2:25 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Hillcrest III.) They should be ashamed of themselves! The prints vary in that the subjects aren't 'only eyes' each one is expressed as an individual woman. The viewer feels that he knows the characters he can understand their situation. MATRIX—A rock band. (At 8:30 p.m. Saturday at the Free State Opera House.) By LORI LYNAM Art Reviewer TREE FROG—A rock band. (At 8:30 p.m. Friday at the Free State Opera House.) Carey's shocking print entitled "Self-Portrait," the beautifully expressionistic print "Tomoko Vemora" by W. Eugene Smith and Rene Gelpi's print entitled "Woman." MEMORIAL CARILLON RECITAL—Albert Gerkin. (At 3 p.m. Sunday. carefree movement of the subject a foreboding, ominous quality that makes it extremely interesting. DIONNE WARWICK and the RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS-Weekend highlight. Homecoming Concert. One of the United States' top female vocalists and an old rock duo on Sunday at 7 and 10 p.m. Saturday in Hoch Auditorium.) UPTOWN SATURDAY NIGHT and SKIN GAME—Two comedies that focus on blacks. The first, directed by Sidney Potter, is by far the better. The second, Bill Wilson, Paula Koe among others. The second stars James Garner. (At 7:30 p.m. through Sunday at the Sunset Drive-In.) MEMORIAL CARILLON RECITAL—Albert Gerkin. (At 7 p.m. Wednesday.) "Iadora Duncan" is an excellent piece done by Edward Steichen in 1913. The photograve process gives the print a soft sensuous quality typifying the beauty of individuality and vibrance of the great dancer show through. Another beautiful print is Brassai's "Fille en Billard" John Schulze's print "Meditation on the Unfinished Dream" has subtle greys produced by the silver print technique added to the ethereal quality of the figure. MAYNARD FERGUSON- a real treat. Ferguson is one of the best jazz trumpeters in the country. A good one to listen to. (At 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Free State Opera House.) "And into the World Came, by Steven Stevens." This is an example of the dye transfer process. The colors give the print a soon futuristic quality with its colorful palette and a unique version of Eve. UNIVERSITY SINGERS—James Ralston, conductor; Reginald Brown, assistant conductor; Carla Edwards and Joyce Hastart, accompanists. Buxtehue, "Lift Up Your Heads" (from the "Messiah") by handel, "Dixit Dominus" by Mozart, featuring Jalie Ralston, soprano; Jayne Casselman, Msss" which is done in the silver print screen. By using harsh blacks and cold blue greys, the process gives the subject of the print a harash, even callous appearance. The most exceptional works are Matthew's "Rite of Spring" and Smith's "Tomoko Vernora" because of their beautifully expressionistic quality. The show as a whole is coherent and unifying as an exhibit on woman, alto; Dong Ferguson, tenor and Michael Bryant, bass. "Motet No. 2" by Brahms. "The Eyes of All Wait Upon Thee" by Jean Bergeri. "Of Crows and Men" by Andrew Macleod. "Te Deum" by Michael Fink, featuring Craig Carlin, tenor. "That They Go Down to the Sea in Ships" by John Podzrov, featuring Doug Ferguson. *tenor.* At 8 p.m. at Swarthowen Hall or Swarthowen Recital Hall. MUSEUM OF ART— "Subject: Woman" and "Spanish Baroque Drawings in North American Collections." Tuesday and 1:30 to 4:45 p.m. Sunday through Nov. 24. MUD CREEK—A rock band. Halloween Party. (At 8:30 Thursday at the Free State Opera House.) NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM—"Plains and South- west Works of Indians from 3000 BC to the present. (From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, with special tinges on 11, 12, and 5 p.m. Friday through May 11.) 7 EAST 7-"Three Annual Printmakers Show." Works by Robert Hastings, Hiles, Kirkland, Lubensky and Shimomura. (From noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday Nov. 1.) KANAS S UNION GALLERY—"Chinese Folk Art." Part of the private collection of Lawrence Sisk-Manor, a museum Gallery in Kansas City. Put together by Chu-Tsing Li, professor of Art. (From 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday) at Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday through Nov. 2.) At the gallery "Theda Bara" by Orvile Hisson, 1921. Showing at the Museum of Art through 34. "Subject: Woman" exhibition.