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Tone Varies in Poetry Hour
His voice ranging from hushed emotion to spirited humor, Ronald Tobin, associate professor of Romance Languages, read poetry from French masters such as Baudelaire, and Victor Hugo yesterday in the Kansas Union at the second SUA Poetry Hour.
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Sprawled on the floor, and seated on benches around the Music Room. nearly 80 students braved freezing winds and snow to hear Tobin read, in French, the works of the masters.
He described, at some length, the devices used in the rhyming of French poetry, explaining that "each line reproduces totally the sound of its note."
BEGINNING with portions from a one-act play by Moliere, entitled "Preciuses Ridicules", Tobin brought laughter from the group as the lines and the short, sharp phrases rolled, one after another.
His mood changed to a somber one as he told Jean Racine's tragedy, "Berenice." The tragedy centers around the love story of Titus, newly-chosen emperor of Rome, and his love, Berenice. Titus' father has died, and he becomes emperor—he has all, and yet, he cannot marry Berenice because the Roman people will not accept a foreign queen.
"IN HIS TRAGEDIES, poetry so contributed to the tragedy that poetry becomes the flesh and the substance of his work." Tobin said. Often glancing away from the book and over the audience, the slim, smiling professor gravely read the lines of the two lovers. His expression was somber, his voice soft.
Turning to the work of Victor Hugo, Tobin named him “a marvelous practitioner of verse.” “Les Chantments” is set against the background of burning buildings in Versailles, as royal troops marched into the city. Hugo sets forth a strong call for union and strength. The strong verses end with the line:
"Etre vainqueur c'est peu; mats, etre grands, c'est tout." (English translation: To conquer means little, but to be great means everything.)
OF ALBERT SAMAIN'S lyric poetry, Tobin said, "It sounds like
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Robert Baustian, Professor of Orchestra, is in New York City for rehearsals of the three performances the opera "Ballad of Baby Doe" that he will conduct for the New York City Center Opera Company. The first performance will be Monday.
Baustian, who has since 1957 been both conductor of the KU symphony and a conductor for the summer season of the Santa Fe (N.M.) Opera Company, has probably had more experience with this American opera by Douglas Moore than any other director.
He has conducted it at KU, at Santa Fe, and on tour with the Santa Fe company in West Berlin and Belgrade, Yugoslavia. On the European tour he shared the podium with Igor Stravinsky.
Baustian before coming to KU was second conductor of the Hessian State Theater in Wiesbaden, Germany. He was the only American conductor on full-time appointment with a European opera company.
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it was made to be put to music. It is personal poetry." Tobin spoke of the extensive correspondence that the poet carried with other authors, such as Anatole France and Andre Gide.
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"He has none of the epic genius of Victor Hugo," Tobin said, "he is a maker of cameos."
In Samain's "Musique Sur L'Eau," the tempo soared as Samain's verses sang of the beauty of nature and water. "He uses sound and rhyme," Tobin said, "for a hallucinating, intoxicating effect."
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The poem, "Vision", explored one of the major themes of French symbolists, the element of escape. In this work, the exotic nature and lure of the far-away rings forcefully. In "Midi", Samain's "soul seemed to bask in the rays of the sun," Tobin said. Tobin also termed Samain as a "magician of sound and color and imagery."
Although each of the selections read was in French, without translation, the rolling lyricism and the short staccato of humorous verses were not lost on the non-French-speaking student. The interpretation of mood and depth by the professor transcended the language barrier.
SpiritualistLaudsFaith As Healer of All Needs
By Lacy Banks
The lecturer, Mrs. Naomi Price, is a member of the Board of Lectureship at the Christian Scientist Church of Christ in Boston, Mass. She has been working in the "faith healing" or "understanding healing" mission for 25 years and has traveled throughout the world.
The root of all physical and spiritual sicknesses is spiritual, a London Christian Scientist said last night before a 35-member group attending a Christian Science lecture in the Union.
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST believes that the cause of all ills, she said, is spiritual. He understands through prayer, faith and understanding that the law of God and the law of good are the greatest forces on earth, she continued.
Since she has dedicated her life to the Christian Science mission "as many other people who have also been healed," she told the group about many of her experiences of healing and what is basically meant.
and healed through close communion with the "Divine Mind that governs the entire universe and through whose power all are saved."
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she told the group. She was saved
"Once the individual fully acknowledges these points the inevitable result is healing," she said.
HEALING IS the sign, the life-like nature of Christian Science, she said. "The basis of our treatment is the realization and belief that spiritual power of God and good meets all human needs. It combats despair, disease and even physical slavery," she continued.
"One can even be healed by merely listening to a lecture or a radio," she said. "I have seen this happen to people several times. This faith healing knows no limits. But it requires that one free himself of erring moral thought."
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