NOVEL EXPERT
Revolution inevitable
Revolution is movement. It happens whether man understands its mobility or not, John S. Brushwood, professor of Spanish-American literature at the University of Missouri in Columbia, told students and faculty yesterday afternoon in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
Professor Brushwood is the author of two books, "The Romantic Novel in Mexico" and "Breve Historia de la Novela Mexicana." His third work, "Mexico and its Novel: A Nation's Search for Identity," will soon be published by the University of Texas Press.
PROFESSOR BRUSHWOOD spoke about "The Aftermath of the Revolution in the Mexican Novel."
He said revolution is synonymous with movement, change and creativity. Referring to this definition, Professor Brushwood said the Mexican Revolution is "the most beautiful social phenomenon" of the 20th century for it erupted in a period of stout stability.
From the historical point of view, the 1911-1917 Mexican conflict, Professor Brushwood said, was a bourgeois and proletarian movement against the dictatorship of Porfrio Diaz, which provided a "sense of newness."
"AS FOR REVOLUTION applied to the novel, we should establish its endurance that was its chief characteristic," he said. "The novel is a vehicle which serves society to move from one place to another. It explores the inner reality of what is visible. It investigates what transcends the reality as well as the irreality."
Mexican novels, according to Professor Brushwood, can be classified on six different levels: the military novel; the colonial novel of Mexico's colonial days; the avant-garde novel of the 1920's; the revolutionary novel of the 1930's; the novel of the rebellion of the 1940's; the novel of time.
"In order to survive, a novel needs to be real. It became thus when it was realized by the people." Brushwood said.
BEST EXPONENTS of the revolutionary authors in Mexico are, according to Brushwood, Mariano Azuela and Lopez Portillo. "Lopez Portillo's work comes out as if he had changed the revolution, while Azuela's book, 'Los de Abajo,' is the most important of the revolutionary novels.
"It (Azuela's work) communicates movement which is the essence of revolution. He swings with the revolution, for his novel is full of action. It has expressing commitment from the people of the novel. This can be seen in the author's elliptical narration," he said.
The immediate result of the Mexican Revolution was not, according to Brushwood, a flood of
Shaw group sings Handel's Messiah
The Robert Shaw Chorale presented Handel's "Messiah" to a near capacity crowd in Hoch Auditorium last night. This is the third of the Chorale's masterwork tours.
The Cleveland Symphony Orchestra will appear at 8:20 p.m. Thursday in Hoch Auditorium under the direction of George Szell. Both of these performances are part of the Concert Course series and are open to students upon presentation of student ID cards.
novels. On the contrary, he said, there was a lapse of ten years before the first literary-military work was published. The Revolution constituted unity although novelist expression did not happen, he said.
THE COLONIAL NOVEL, on the other hand, dealt with the colonial period. It was part of escapism, of a desire to avoid the past. This, in Professor Brushwood's opinion, cannot occur.
"This type of novel is the expression of the Mexican taste of that period. The Mexicans then looked at the past as antique hunters look at charming, old tables," he said.
Out of the impulse of the 1920's,
came the avant-garde novel of Mexico. The isms of the time, he said, made this novel more revolutionary than the others. "A common idea, then, was that avant-garde artists produced revolution since they created movement," he said.
TEN YEARS afterward, Mexico of the 1930's found writers like the avant-garders. They were introverted in the sense that they wrote about man and his inner problems, and from the point of view of Mexico's problems.
"As a whole," Professor Brushwood said, "people were not fighting, but were struggling for what the Revolution had been about."
Boeing strike averted by use of negotiation
Two persons hospitalized during the last part of March with respiratory infections did have Asian influenza contrary to an earlier report, said Dr. Raymond Schwegler, acting director of Watkins Hospital.
Dr. Schwegler said reports just received from the state public health laboratory identified the virus as type A2 influenza.
March infections were flu
A CONCILIATION spokesman said the agreement is subject to ratification by union members at meetings scheduled for April 27 in major Boeing facilities, including Cape Kennedy.
The agreement will give the union some of the senior rights it sought but leave the company enough flexibility to control its
WASHINGTON — (UPI)—The Boeing Aircraft Co., and the International Association of Machinists reached agreement early today on seniority issues, averting a strike by 50,000 workers at vital U.S. space centers.
He said the two patients had not received flu vaccine at KU this year, although they may have had flu shots elsewhere.
work force through selective layoffs, the spokesman said.
Details of the settlement were not immediately available.
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The seniority issues were left over for future solution after the company and union reached agreement last October on a new three-year contract. The agreement followed a 19-day strike.
The settlement was announced by William E. Simkin, director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. It came after nearly 16 hours of continuous negotiations.
THE ISSUES HAVE been the subject of talks that began Feb. 1 on the West Coast. They moved to Washington last Wednesday and have continued nearly continuously since then.
The ratification meetings were to be held at Boeing facilities including those in Seattle, Wash., Wichita, Kan., Michoud, La., and Cape Kennedy.
Daily Kansan Tuesday, April 19, 1966
The number of cases of respiratory infections in the hospital now is normal for this time of year, he said, and no further reports of flu in Kansas have been received.
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These facilities employ a total of 100,000 workers.
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