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'Black Mountain' poet narrates
Bu JOHN GANGI
"I read it. I wrote it."
So said Robert Duncan, a poet of the "Black Mountain" movement and also an authentic San Francisco poet, during the poetry hour reading in the Kansas Union.
The "Black Mountain" movement originated at Black Mountain College, N.C., with founders Duncan, Greeley, Charles Olson, and Paul Blackburn.
ORIGINALLY INTENDED to be an agricultural school, it gradually became a liberal arts college and a bastion of contemporary poets with these four men forming the nucleus, and developing a style based on Olson's theory of projective verse.
Author of a number of works including "The Opening of the Fields" and "Roots and Branches," Duncan read mostly from "Bending the Bow."
Before opening with his own version of Shelly's "Anathusa," (a fountain of inspiration), he said "I think of poems as belonging to books and a larger thing—poetry."
He then spoke of Dante and his select group as part of the "Black Mountain" movement of their time and how they talked of love and its relation to the intellect.
His translations had a "Duncan twist" and of Verlaine he said "He is a genuine poet, but one who can certainly mess-up a poem."
DUNCAN READ NEXT the title poem from "Bending the Bow" and his own translations of Verlaine, a French symbolist.
He took off his jacket and then his tie and said, "I'm coming to a blast," as he broke out with a
Undersea possibilities
PITTSBURGH — (UPI) — Scientists, with the imagination of Jules Verne and 20th century technology, predict the ocean floor will some day house complete oil field installations and "aqua" culture stations for growing sea life.
The research scientists, employed by Westinghouse Electric Corp., said underwater cargo vessels would some day travel at double the speed of surface ships, ferrying oil, iron ore and other minerals from the ocean's depths.
reading of "Passages" in a clear, loud and cultivated voice.
"Passages," he said, "Is a poem composed in an open series. . . .
It has no beginning or end."
"Passages" included "Benifices," "Orders," "The Soldiers," and "Uprisings" which he said some
people consider a protest to the Vietnam war.
Rhine will speak on ESP Thursday
By DON WALKER
The first modern experimenter with extrasensory perception will speak at KU on recent parapsychological—ESP—findings at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Dyche Auditorium.
Dr. J. B. Rhine will give the eighth of this year's Sigma Xi lectures which present scientific concepts to the public in lay terms.
"Since I was a pacifist during World War II, it is not interesting to me to be against the Vietnam war."
Dr. Rhine has been out of the mainstream of orthodox psychology since he introduced ESP testing at Duke University in the early 1930's. In collaboration with psychologist William McDougall, Rhine conducted the first tests on clairvovance and telepathy.
RHINE'S WORK catalyzed a wave of popular interest and led to a reaction within the scientific community over the sensationalism advanced by numerous books and articles. Criticism of parapsychology became increasingly hostile and by 1938 psychologists pushed for an end to his work.
Duke University backed Rhine during this period of controversy and Rhine continued his research with added controls to make his data more acceptable. Although Rhine and orthodox psychologists have hit an impasse since the furor thirty years ago, many of his findings are being reconsidered in a new framework.
Cannes festival
PARIS — (UPI) - The movie adaptation of James Joyce's "Ulysses" heads a list of six new films that will be screened at the Cannes International Film Festival April 27-May 12.
The others are the Czech film "Hotel for Strangers." "I'm a Big Boy Now" from the United States, "Murder and Assassination" from West Germany, and the American "Custer of the West" and "The War Wagon."
Applications Are Solicited for the Positions
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1967-68 JAYHAWKER. Magazine-yearbook of the Students of the University of Kansas
"Rhine actually is trying to find unobserved sensory processes," Charles Neuringer, associate professor of psychology, said, "not to put them beyond the realm of scientific investigation by saying they cannot be observed.
1. The letter of application outlining the applicant's qualifications must be submitted by 5 p.m., Monday, May 1, 1967, to Mr. Raymond Nichols, Chairman, Jayhawker Advisory Board, Strong Hall.
Three letters of recommendation—one from a former employer, one from a faculty or staff member of the University, and the third from either or other sources—should accompany the application, or be sent direct to Mr. Nichols.
2. Candidates will be called before the Jayhawker Advisory Board for interviews. Time and place will be announced later.
3. Any student enrolled in the University may apply for either position. Previous work on The Jawhawk is not required, but the Board would expect the candidate to show equivalent editorial or business talent and experience.
4. The positions are salaried, each paying $100 a month for 10 months for a total of $1,000. Upon successful completion of duties, the editor or business manager may additionally receive a bonus of up to $250.
5. Additional details about applications and the positions and their duties may be obtained from Mr. Tom Yoe, Faculty Adviser, 32 Strong Hall. Information about duties may also be obtained from incumbents Editor Blake Biles and Business Manager Steve Meyer at the Jayhawker Office, Kansas Union.
"EXTRASENSORY PERCEPTION the way Rhine approaches it, does not have a bad reputation," Neueringer said. "He rejects the mystical interpretations of the numerous unexplainable phenomena."
The Javhawker Advisory Board
Sigma Xi will end the lecture series in May with another controversial figure in the scientific community, Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky, whose theories about the formation and nature of the universe have far-reaching implications for history and religion.
Duncan ended with the last poem of the volume, "The Neboloogus." The audience responded with a robust applause, and the poet then knotted his blue tie with white polka-dots and slipped into his jacket with the Student Peace Union button pinned on the lapel.
Daily Kansan
Tuesday, April 18, 1967
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