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Monday, October 21.1974
University Daily Kansan
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OPINION
IF HALDEMAN HAD ANY SENSE OF HISTORY...HE WOULD
REALIZED STONEWALLING IS A LOUSY DEFENSE!
By DON CREACH
Theatre Reviewer
'Godspell' production a success
Is Jesus just another pretty face? Well, he's easy to take in, but it doesn't palatable that "Godspell" likely to draw some of the
And they have good reason to be enthusiastic. It's an entertaining show performed well. The fact that the show is based seems only individual. In fact, we seem a bit incongruous at times.
biggest, most enthusiastic crowds of the University Theatre series.
For example, the song "wow Besechec Thee" involves some clever, creative choreography by Suzanne Keeler. The song is very much similar to the very much. But the lyrics of the song seem to have no important connection with the message or even the tone of the choreography. Yet, individually choreography are successful.
For me, the appeal of the show rests largely on the skill of the production. There are many gimmicks with props, costumes, blocking and inflection that are exploited in the production. Such things as the echo produced in the lobby of the theatre gain their full dramatic effect.
There are also several noteworthy performances. Beth Busby is the consumate clown. Mike Rapport does his usual mastery of comedy. Frances Ginsberg and Nancy
The KU-K-State football game was advertised by sports analysts, fans and the players themselves as a classic battle. It was to be a game of emotion and desires. If it was to be a game where previous records and achievements counted for gladiators fighting to the finish. The game met its advance billing and, in the opinion of most people, surpassed it.
Crowd spoils victory
The game was a frantic swirl of excitement that any fan could relish for a lifetime. Many people, however, will soon forget the game and the efforts of the athletes on both teams. They will forget the game because of unpleasant and gruesome circumstances that were beyond the control of the teams. They will forget the game because they will be haunted by more personal memories of fear, frustration and inconvenience.
Their memories of the game will be dimmed by memories of the scene in Manhattan's Aggieville the night before the game: Drunks vomiting in the street, beer bottles smashed on the streets in front of moving automobiles, full bottles of beer hurled at a drunk who was dancing on an awning in front of a row of windows, a man trying to steal tools out a pickup truck as it came close him, crowded bars musty from cigarettes smelled in the airborne stale room of the floor, an automobile on fire supplementing chairs being burned in a street, young men urinating on the side of a building and a shower of beer thrown by students who were on the roofs of bars and shops.
Their memories of the heroic efforts of the K-State team will be dimmed by memories of the scene in and around the stadium before the game: Girls begging to use restroom facilities in campers and trailers because the lines at the restrooms in the stadium were more than 30 minutes long; a crowded jungle of humanity at the south end of the stadium because people were expected to get to their seats by negotiating a narrow passage lined by concession stands, restrooms and temporary bleachers; a policeman unable to bring order to the packed
mob and women wide-eyed with fear as men
and women close-eyed to free themselves
from the squirming mass.
Their memories of the winning touchdown will be dimmed by memories of the scene in the stadium during the game: A policeman inside a crowded women's restroom directing traffic; the stink of pools of urine on the floor of the men's restroom; the KU side of the stadium, in a synchronized vocal outburst led by the school cheerleaders; State fans what they see while the K-State fans equally offensive cheer about formicating with KU, and about 2,000 fans illegally entering the stadium through a side gate and watching the game from seats in the aisles.
Their memories of the final climactic seconds when a K-State's last attempt at victory was stopped on the two yard line will be dimmed by memories of the scene in and around the stadium after the game: The crowd jammed into confined aisles once more; two elderly KU fans, a man and his wife, with blood streaming from their mouths; players are to move through the crowd on the field but no one making any effort to clear a path; drunks being carried out of the stadium and cars spewing gravel from under tires that were spinning away the frustrations of the idiot at the wheel.
Kansas State University and the city of Manhattan have two years before the annual madness moves to their part of the state again. How they use those two years to improve safety and comfort in the town and at the stadium will be one of their concern for people. The University of Kansas will have an awrence have one year before they become the nation's football fans throughout the state. Their plans to avoid the excesses found in Manhattan will be an indicator of their ability to recognize human values. Pranks, school and civi spirit, and nicknames such as "Silo Tech" and "The Flaw on the Kaw" will always be a part of university leaders, elected officials and fans themselves must find a way to curb excesses that threaten life and property.
Opel have beautiful strong voices. Opel does especially well in the song "By My Side," and Ginsberg often carries the important harmony lines that might otherwise be indistinct. In all it's a strong cast with no emotional poor performances.
—David Burpee
So why is this show religious? Well, to start with, it's not, really. In fact, it's not even moral or ethical, though that might be closer to the intended concept. The lessons taught in Christian life are their message. Their message is to follow the Christian way of life, not because it's what you do if you worship God, but it's the most
expedient way to avoid punishment.
If that sounds like the kind of Old Testament morality that Jesus came to temper with the concept of Christian mercy, he is only the first of several theological puzzles.
Often the basis of the humor in the depictions of parables and lessons is for Jesus's words to be taken literally by his followers, who react as clowns or children. But that is also the case when playwrights do in having Jesus the real charges where the real lesson is. All too often, the teachings are presented as rules for
Following the didactic tone of these vignettes, the well-executed (no pain intended) task was to be done. He wasted. What is he doing up there? He has taken no sins upon himself. He is not Messiah.
behavior, rather than allegories pertaining to the spirit.
For the record, my own sympathies lie chiefly with the protesting parents, white or black, of our students. With some conspicuous exceptions—notably the top nopch readers published by the Open Court books—textbooks and memoirs of black people from the dreary to the dreadful.
The controversy sputters along in West Virginia over the selection of textbooks by the University of Kanaan County superintendent has
Yet the other side of this controversy has merit also. A school system ought not to be so large that most important, most bigoted, and most narrow-minded 51 percent. When you come right down to it, there is no satisfactory choice between the two sides. The wonders are often worse.
mond, that a few years ago
banned "To" Kill
A Mockingbird. The flat-world
no man wants to leave.
deserved the contempt they
By James Kilpatrick
In West Virginia parents complained that some of the teaching materials were subversive of order, discipline, and morality. If the excerpts they have sent me are fairly typical, their complaint has substance. Children were not meant to be willy-nilly with what they willy-nilly with whatever doctrines the professionals may want to cram down their throats.
In portraying Jesus, Michael C. Booker takes on an effort that can be a story in itself (or even a film), but also gives us insight. Whether it caused Booker classic questions of identity, one wonders where he and his wife lived, or whether their models for Jesus, especially visually.
A considerable intellectual agility is required to maintain the proposition that community factions can fairly for militant blacks in Manhattan but altogether aboriented for militant whites in Appalachia. The proposition is that I might as well be abandoned
resigned, effective next June, and a majority of the local school board that has said good business. "There's nothing pretty in the whole affair."
It is, of course, a pleasant experience to watch the super-liberais squirm. A few years ago, we saw them at community control of community schools in the black neighborhoods of New York. Black parents understandably objected to elementary readers and were upset by ventures of lily-wide Dick and lily-wide Jane and their lil-yellow dog Spot. The parents demanded that the offending liberais be confined and the liberals are solemnly saying amen.
The wowers are 0.6.
If memory serves, it was the school board of ran Hanover County, Va., just outside Rich-
The impression is that Jesus is patronizing to his clown-disciples, which I find galling. It's worth noting that Booker does comic bits and sings very well, but I don't appreciate his interpretation of his character. The only time he sees, well, is when he goes to his followers. But, as noted before, that seems a totally unnecessary and meaningless act.
Both sides right in book dispute
And it is a shame to put a damper on such fun as the cast has been having and giving. So it is fitting that the curtain call gives the cast a chance to sing out again. They leave an image of enjoyment shining from each pretty face.
brought on their heads.
Elsewhere in this supposedly civilized republic, local ignorami have banned the works of Falkner, Hemingay, and Salinger. A Midwestern school board banned art books containing
certain paintings of Titan and Renois because the women, you know, well, they were nekkid.
How do you reconnect with conflict? You never reconcile it. You acknowledge that ours is not a perfect world, and you do professional educators of West Virginia had exercised even minimal tact and common sense, they would not have antagonized the Kanawha teaching materials. If the Chicken Little parents had kept their heads, they might have recognized that there is a big world on beyond Putney, Rand, Pond Gap and Queen Shoals, and public schools to prepare their restless children to live in that world.
The trouble is that minds get closed on both sides. Professional educators have sensitive noses; they are offended by the intellectual B.O. of some students, concealed disdain is maddening to parents whose honest sweat pays for the public schools.
The situation is further complicated by the pervasive liberalism of most textbook publishing houses. Their editors must be aware that Kanawa County and they have no inclination to get any closer.
At the end of the line are the children who, if they were consulted, probably would make wiser choices than the grown-ups, anyhow. Nobody asks them.
Saint Jerome in the Wilderness by Antonio del Castillo, a selection from the Spanish Barque Drawings in North American Collections presently showing at the Museum of Art.
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Fanny seeks romance, but viewer seeks exit
I am very sorry to say that "Around the World With Fanny
Movie Reviewer
By KATHY PICKETT
Hill" isn't worth the paper this review is printed on.
Actually, "Fanny Hill" wasn't too bad if you don't mind
Of course, in these days of inflation, that might be more than 1 think.
"Fanny Hill" is the story of a bored housewife who gets a divorce and takes off around the world in search of romantic adventure. She leaves her home in Sweden and goes to Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Venice and Munich.
It's not that I have anything against dirty movies. If I'm lucky I might even get to see one some day.
stitled dialogue, uninspired and unattractive performers and a mediocre plot.
the fact that her former husband has jealous when she sees a revealing, to say the least, picture of himself. He follows her around, succeeding in regaining her at the end.
"Fanny Hill" does have a few high points. A salee professional in Hong Kong uttered a few very funny old Chinese proverbs. Unfortunately, they aren't fit for publication.
There is also an interesting adventure with black hair
spray, not to mention a fantasy dream of the world's strongest man.
But I suggest that if any of these things sound in the least intriguing, find someone who saw the movie and let them tell you about it. The funny parts make up a more 15 minutes of a full-length film. And it's not worth the $1.75.
Maybe some might think I didn't like the movie because
The men weren't too appealing either. Fanny's husband was okay until he took off his clothes. The other men she went after got progressively worse. The first was a fat, bored
I'm a female sexist who objects to women being discriminated against, but I would like to object to objects. I may well be all of those things, but I guarantee you I'm not Fanny Hill or her girlfriend. More could be considered sex objects.
movie actor, the second a sloppy and slobby director. I quite frankly can't remember whether there were any others, and I hadn't had much to drink before I went to the movie.
I guess the only people who'd like this movie would be mystery buffs. And if they could solve the mystery of why anyone would want to see "Around the World with Fanny Hill," I wish they'd let me know.