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Summer Session Kansan Tuesday, June 19, 1962
For Cultural Exchange
Recently the University Theatre received a grant from University of Kansas' fund for international education to send seven students and an instructor to perform and to study dramatics in Europe.
The group will leave the end of this month for a six-weeks summer school session on the summer campus of the University of Vienna at Strobl, Austria. While there the group will study dramatics and as a part of their laboratory work perform "Sweet Betsy From Pike," "Hello, Out There," "John Brown's Body," and "The Fantastiks."
IN ADDITION to performing at Strobl, the group will also entertain at The University of Utrecht, The University of Bonn, The University of Muenster and The Free University of Berlin.
They have prepared their four works with a minimum amount of scenery, costumes and properties so that they may travel easily and that they may perform in a variety of places and spaces. "Hello, Out There," will be performed in two languages—English and German.
The exchange program is a pilot one and if successful the University of Kansas can look forward to visits by European theatrical groups in future summers.
THE EXCHANGE of performers by the United States and foreign countries has been successful thus far, and much good will derived by the appearances of American performers abroad.
American pianist Van Cliburn's reception is a good example of that received by American performers. At his concert in Moscow last week a Russian audience showered him with flowers, applauded wildly and clamored for his autograph. Many of the Russians rushed to stageside at intermission to touch his hands and toss bouquets of flowers at his feet.
Benny Goodman, who is also on a Russian tour, has been playing to overflow crowds and his music has endeared him to the Russian people. Another example is Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong
who wowed the Russian people with his rendition of "St. Louis Blues."
MUSIC IS not the only field of foreign exchange. American baseball teams have traveled to Japan where they have received warm receptions from the Japanese people. This year's winner of the College World Series will travel abroad.
Foreign aid has always been a question mark in our government's budget. Do we really reap benefits from the money we invest in other countries?
We shall not attempt to answer the question of foreign aid, but we will say that cultural exchange programs can be a valuable asset to our country's relations with foreign countries.
OFTEN COLD, hard cash or buildings and mechanical instruments are not recognized and appreciated by the people. These, we grant, are necessary and should always remain an integral part of our foreign aid program.
What we should not forget is the everlasting good will that can be obtained through cultural exchanges. People are people whether they are yellow, black or white. "Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you cry alone."
When people of different cultures can come together and enjoy a play such as "Hello, Out There," a fine musical work such as "Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto," an American comedian such as Bob Hope or a baseball game, they can get to know one another and make ties of friendship that are everlasting.
THE SECRET of our foreign relationships is that we must have the personal touch. Donations out of our pocketbooks (or budget) are not enough. To win friends we must work together and we must play together.
The Peace Corps is doing a fine job working together with foreign peoples and our musicians, artists and athletes are doing a fine job of entertaining and making people happy.
May our cultural exchange program be expanded, for it is in this area that we can "win more friends and influence more people."
Steve Clark
Nothing But a Name
Although the outcome of the Democratic convention constituted another political blitz for the Kennedy family and gave Edward M. Kennedy, the President's young and untried brother, first place on the Democratic primary ballot, it could well turn out that the convention delegates endorsed the weakest and most vulnerable of their potential candidates for the U.S. Senate contest in November.
Whether or not presidential pressure was used to help Ted Kennedy convince reluctant delegates, as was charged but not substantiated by his opponent, Atty. Gen. Edward J. McCormack Jr., a lot of people, including a lot of Democrats, are going to believe those charges. Depending upon how resentful they are, this could result in an explosive situation when Mr. Kennedy and the Mr. McCormack battle it out in the primary. Even though Kennedy might win that contest too, it could leave a split that would be most helpful to the Republican candidate in the final election.
Even if such a split does not develop in the Democratic ranks, it is already obvious that a lot of Democrats who like to think for themselves are hardly enamored of Ted
Kennedy as a candidate for one of the highest offices the state can give anyone.
Aside from being the President's brother, what does the younger Kennedy offer? He has a Harvard education, it is true, but even his educational record seems to have been no more than mediocre and it was marred by a most unpleasant episode which certainly indicates that not too long ago Ted Kennedy was seriously lacking in the type of moral sense that prevents most people, even of college age, from doing anything really shady and dishonorable. He has absolutely no record of elective public service which might serve as a yardstick of his abilities—and he has never denied Mr. McCormack's flat statement that he has not had enough civic interest to even vote in city and state elections except on two occasions when his older brother was a candidate.
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Except for his family connections, Mr. Kennedy would certainly be judged a cipher who had the gall to want to start at the political top without serving even a short apprenticeship.—From the June 11 North Adams (Mass.) Transcript.
We are in a new era . . . We must have sufficient imagination and courage to translate the universal wish for peace—which is rapidly becoming a universal necessity—into actuality.—General of the Army Douglas MacArthur
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.—Somerset Maugham
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The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.— George Bernard Shaw
Observations
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Things are not always as they appear to be. We noticed a stretch of overturned dirt east of Fraser Hall and wondered if that stalled old Fioneer with shovel in hand hadn't done a little work. It's about time. Statues must think they're sacred around here or something.
--moved almost everyone here. Were the "Frankenstein" movies more effective? I believe they were. This, unfortunately, is often the case when bad literature is translated into drama.—CMP
We saw two young lovers over by the Campanile the other night. He was undoubtedly whispering sweet nothings in her ear, and she, of course, undoubtedly was whispering sweet nothing doings in his ear.
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Is KU becoming a natural wildlife preserve? Walk across the campus about 6 p.m. and you can hear an owl hooting and a woodpecker barking.
We heard persons talking about their summer schedules the other day. One told the other he had an eight o'clock class called Conflict With Sleep.
M. Scott Carpenter said his recent three orbital flight was "as easy as a bus ride." We're not going up until they are as easy as a shiny limousine with all the trimmings gliding down a super turnpike.
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Overheard: A sweet young thing, who will enroll as a freshman this fall, tell a boy who just asked her for a date, "Well, I think we better double date."
--moved almost everyone here. Were the "Frankenstein" movies more effective? I believe they were. This, unfortunately, is often the case when bad literature is translated into drama.—CMP
It is rumored that the Senate Rackets Committee Investigation of B-Girls might be banned in Boston. Some parts of the investigation are almost as good as "Lady Chaterely's Lover."
SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
NEWS DEPARTMENT
Steve Clark and
Karl Koch ... Co-Editors
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Bonnie McCullough and Bill Woodburn, Co-Business Mgrs.
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By Richard T. De George Assistant Professor of Philosophy
ESSENTIAL WORKS OF JOHN STUART MILL, edited and with an introduction by Max Lerner (New York: Bantam Books, 1961). Bantam Classic SC 111. 75 cents.
John Stuart Mill started reading the Greek classics in Greek at the age of three, and the Latin classics in Latin at the age of eight. By the time he was twelve he had pretty well covered those fields and went on to master the higher reaches of mathematics and logic. He also read the major European historical writings, and became acquainted with the principle works in economics, psychology and legal philosophy. By the age of twenty-one he was a regular newspaper contributor, had formed a debating society and had started a literary magazine for the new philosophical radicals.
DESPITE—or because of—this amazing education he suffered a severe mental and emotional crisis and contemplated suicide. The details of his extraordinary education, the account of his unconventional (though platonic) relationship with Mrs. Harriet Taylor, and a vivid presentation of the thoughts of his age are all to be found in Mill's delightful "Autobiography," reprinted in this volume in its entirety.
Also included are his famous essays "On Liberty" and "Utilitarianism," as well as two lesser known works "Nature" and "The Utility of Religion." "On Liberty" presents a classic statement of political liberalism. "Utilitarianism" is a clear and forceful statement of the ethical view that an action is right insofar as it tends to produce the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people.
The claim that these form Mill's "essential works" is a debatable one since his "A System of Logic," which presents the psychological and logical basis for his thought is completely omitted. Yet what is included is basic and well worth reading for anyone interested in education, political thought, ethics or religion.
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By Calder M. Pickett Professor of Journalism
Few readers, no matter how pronounced their devotion to Lincoln, will manage to read the comprehensive hardback volumes of "The Prairie Years" and "The War Years." It is likely that these wind up as prestige books, on view for visitors in the home but seldom looked at otherwise.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, THE PRAIRIE YEARS AND THE WAR YEARS, by Carl Sandburg. Dell Laurel, $2.95 (boxed, three volumes).
For this reason, it is well that Carl Sandburg himself, without help of The Reader's Digest or some other condensing firm, has reduced his epic biography to readable form. Dell Laurel has seen fit to bring out "Abraham Lincoln" in an attractive three-volume boxed set, and such a set is hard to pass up.
SO DETAILED, SO BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN is this Lincoln (around 1,100 pages of it, as matter of fact) that one wonders why anything more thorough is needed for the average reader. Sandburg includes everything here. The opening volume of "The Prairie Years" is the Lincoln of Illinois legend—the harsh life in Kentucky, Indiana and near New Salem; the life as a storekeeper, rising young lawyer, state legislator, debater with Stephen A. Douglas, yarn-spinner, lover (possibly) of Ann Rutledge, flatbatter on the Sangamon, wrestler, dreamer, miserable pessimist.
The other two volumes are a history of the Civil War as much as a biography of Lincoln. Sandburg is not concerned in this condensation with intricate strategy of the battles, but each battle is here. And the other Lincoln emerges—the reviled President, the pardoner, the man of patience, the unhappy husband and father, and finally the martyr.
Eloquence carries Sandburg's Lincoln along. This may be the greatest of American biographies, written by a man who is almost an American legend himself.
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FRANKENSTEIN, by Mary Shelley. Doubleday Dolphin, 95 cents.
Had it not been for Boris Karloff's famous interpretation of the hideous monster in a 1931 movie and in many that followed, and had it not been for increased interest in the side effects of industrialism, "Frankenstein" might have been consigned to the ash heap alongside other Gothic tales of its period. Mrs. Shelley certainly was not an able writer, but she was quite a story-teller, and "Frankenstein" endures today through its eternal fascination.
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Symbolists may suggest that Mary Shelley, who was in the vanguard of romantic rebellion against the coming of the industrial revolution, was striking out in "Frankenstein" against the machine which was coming to control its maker. She herself insists that "Frankenstein" was written after she, her husband, Lord Byron and another chap, whose name is unimportant, got to telling ghost stories.
This is an incredible tale and, strangely enough, the monster really is not the villain. One feels for him, in fact, a large measure of compassion. In the language of today, he just wanted to be loved. People wouldn't love him, so he turned bad, and slowly removed almost everyone his creator knew and loved.
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