6 Tuesday, April 12, 1977 University Daily Kansan Arts & Leisure Punt needed to kick 'Pepper' out Bv JOHN RINKENBAUGH "PEEPER," by pepper Rodgers and Al Thomay (doubled. 178 pages, $7.95). No so long ago the University of Kansas head football coach was Pepper Rodgers, an unpredictable Georgia cracker whose behavior was beheaded by a bult of nunchucks on third down. Now Rodgers and Atlanta sportswriter Ai Tommy have teamed to produce a short autobiography of the screwball champion after a brief period of confusion at UCLA. The book be classed with the worst of sports biographies, a low form of literature at best. Rodgers' coaching record is hardly the sort that innables books, but that doesn't By JAMES BARKER Off the Shelf Reviewer Poems accent death motif THE BOOK covers Rodgers' glorious so learn to the unfamiliar coach. His coaching record is barely above 500. The coach's performance has gone up. "DRY SEASON", by Michael I. Johnson (Cottonwood Review, 32 pages, $1, purchase price.) Those who wonder what KU English professors do in their spare time would do well to buy this inexpensive chapbook of Michael Johnson's poetry. "Dry Season" is an easy accessible, direct study of mid-autumn, a time when by Johnson's voice for concrete detail The first poem, "To a Fellow Prisoner of the 1980s," quickly introduces the poet's basic concern—the inherent guilt of a dry, arrogant character—and it is continually repeated in natural imagery. Except for a few character studies of artists from the past, which often clash with the book's largely contemporary concerns, most of the other poems are an exploration of the poet's guilt or his frustration. In "Breaking Ground," the frustration takes form in the calculated uncertainty of a survivor who kills insects and earthworms by using a special paint to kill the garden's plants to eat them. Images of death also dominate the other poems—always with man and machine juggernauting over Nature. Perhaps the poet's most fallible material is provided in Room to rent? Advertise it in the Kansan 864-4358 the barren existence following the death of his mother and the slow-diving of Nature days at Tech as quarterback and follows his coaching career through assistant jobs at Air Force, Florida and ATA to the helm of the team. The team alternated with little stories that Rodgers says have helped to shape his football philosophy and anecdotes intended to The haunting anticipation of his mother's death in "Death Dream" is *is* simple brilliant and so is the title poem, "Dry Season." A book by David K. Johnson pinpoints our place in time. Much of "Dry Season" is worth reading and contemplating. Johnson occasionally is a more mournal than a poet and sips into a prosaic, pushy style that would be better served by his imagery. The anguish of the poems, coupled with the poet's midwestern temperaments for the occasional flaws in producing an enjoyable chapbook of poetry. Rodgers says that people involved in football take themselves too seriously. "There is no mystique to football, "he writes." It is a boy's game played by the man-boy. The game has no problem. Those who make a holy crusade out of it." James Barker is a senior majoring in human biology. That is the one endearing thing about Rodgers, he sees football for what it is, not as a sport. LESS ENDEARINGLY, however, Rodgers also uses the book as a podium for superficialities of his lifestyle such as carrying a shoulderbag, wearing a wig and riding motorcycles. He goes to some length free spirit. The attempt fails tediously. Rodgers seems to think the fact that he disdains a pre-game prayer makes him a leader. The book will appeal only to the real dreh sport fans. But even such fans will want more for their money. Don't buy the book, but the historical history of Rodgers' stay at Kansas. He fails in his attempted conversion from coach to author. Better, he should have punted. And yes, he does retell the story of Dan Devine and the peace sign. John Rinkenbaugh is a junior majoring in education and journalism. Oliver Hall Guild presents musical comedy Thursday Bruce Schentes, Westwood, N.J., junior, is director and choreographer. Susan Timmerman, Albuquerque, N.M. sohmore, is assistant director. Lead characters in the play are Laura Beth Davidson, Overland Park freshman; Sue Smith, Long Island, N.Y., freshman; and David McGregory, Wichita sophomore. Musical accompaniment will consist of piano, flute and percussion. The Oliver Hall Drama Guild will present Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurent's musical comedy "Anyone Can Whistle" at 8 PM through Saturday in the Oliver Hall lounge. exposed the "cookies" mix with the crayons before the mixup is sorted out. The plot concerns a small town near bankruptcy that has a female mayor. She and the police chief instigate a miracle and health-seeking pilgrims help the town to profit. But when the "cookies"—members of a house for "socially pressured"—come to be cured, the officials decide to destroy the miracle because the plan would be A large portion of the Lawrence jazz community will be blowing their horns and picking their axes this Wednesday through Saturday, which is billed as "Lawrence Jazz Week," by the Opera House and the Seventh Spirit. The beat goes on. All shows will take place on the main stage of the Opera House, at 7th and 8th floors. Jazz festival begins Wednesday A JAZZ jam session, which is normally be placed Thursday at Palm Beach Beach, meets the audience with the River City Jazz Band leading the session. Admission is 50 cents and all musicians and performers are welcome. Thursday. Two KU jazz bands will perform—the Tuesday-Tuesday Band and the 12:30 Jazz Band, directed by Jim Barnes, KU assistant to the director of band ensembles. The two local jazz bands, the Tommy Johnson Experiment and the Joe Ubtack Trio A benefit show for the KU School of Fine Arts' jazz scholarships will be at 9 p.m. Jazz in the Night programming. Guitarists, Ralph Towner and John Abercrombie, will play at 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m., with the ensemble set. Admissions for each show is $4. Towner, who also plays piano, has played with groups such as Weather Report, the Paul Winter Consort and Oregon and has recorded albums with Gary Burton and Horace Alberrombi. Aberrombi has played at the Bergen Ballet, B吉尔 Evans and Jack Delonette. Admission is the show starting at 8 p.m. Friday by more Lawrence jazz combs—the Fast Eddie Quartet, the River City Jazz Band, the Nairobi Trio with John Moore on drum and the Tom Montgomery Quartet with Jim Stringer on guitar. Admission is John Easley, KANU development director, said this was the first of a concert series presented by KANU Jazz in the early May or next fall, he said. SATURDAY WILL WIND up Jazze Week with two benefit concerts for KANU-FM's Admission on Thursday will be $1. This Week's Theater Highlights "ANYONE CAN WHISTLE." Oliver Hall at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. Concerts Recitals UP WITH PEOPLE, 8 tonight, Hoch ENGLERGET HUMPERDINK, 8 p.m. Thursday, Kemper Arena, Kansas City. UNIVERSITY SINGERS, 8 tonight. Swarthout Recital Hall. ALBERT GERKEN, carilion, 7 p.m. Wednesday, camanile. Wednesday, campanile. CONCERT CHOIR, 8 p.m. Thursday SawgrassHunt Lectures PAUL METCALF, and great grandson of Herman Melville, reads from his writings. 8 tonight, Kansas Union's Council Room. "STOBI: A CITY OF ANCIENT MACEDONIA" James Wiseman, chair of classical and archaeological studies at the University of p.m. Thursday. Lawrence Public Library. LAWRENCE ARTS CENTER—"Four Printmakers," work by Jane Abbey Exhibits KANASS UNION GALLERY- Downtown Galleria. Show, mostly paintings, through April 18th. ELIZABETH M. WATKINS COMMUNITY MUSEUM—"An American Sampler: A Look at Life in the 1800s," through April. Colette Bangert, Evonne English and Judy Geer Kellas, Exhibit Hall, Kathryn Clark, photography, Conference Room, through April. LAWRENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY- Lawrence High School art students. Jason Kernigan THE MARKETPLACE GALLERY—Ann paint and glaze silversmithing, through Auction. 7E7GALLERY-H . J. Bott, maquett and 7E7GALERY, sculpture, through April 28. SPONDER THAYER MUSEUM OF ART, Casey Thayer Collection, Main Gallery. Nightclubs ARNE BREV, local guitarist, 8 p.m. Wednesday, the Hawk's Nest. JAZZ WEEK, Wednesday through Saturday, the Opera House. JAM SESSION, bluegrass, folk, old timey, b to midnight Wednesday. Off the Wheel Films THE WORKING CLASS GOES TO HEAVEN—This Italian film won honors at the Cannes Film Festival and centers on a young factory worker as he realizes the facets of his middle class goals. MOSES AND AARON—Schoenberg's opera aoratea is the subject of this radical film experiment. All of the symbolism of Schoenberg's drama and all of the colors in overwhimming musical scores are captured by director Jean Marie Straub. THE HIGHBINDERS, by Oliver Blecke (Pocket,$1.50) -- A thriller about Philip St. Books lives, who showed up earlier in Bleek's "The Procane Chronicle," later renamed "St. Ives" to coincide with the Charles Bonmon movie *Excellence* and dirty *dirt*. THE DISPENSABLE MAN, by Woll Rita Davis, 26, who lives in the city, who gets drunk and emblazes the firm's money and heads for Acapulo, where he is pursued by a dogged Scotland Yard THE BAIT, by Dorothy Uhnak (Pocket, Scribner) and Tom Hanks. DA's special investigators squabble, the only woman on it. Our heroine sets out to solve three murders after getting herself into a car accident. THE MARAUDERS, by Gordon D. Shiretts (Gold Medal, $1.50). A book about adventure in the West, involving a hero who is traveling back to making place in the Mexican state of Sotra. DESERT CAPTIVE, by Eliot Tilson (Gold Medal, $1.75).—Another thriller, involving a man who is asked by a powerful woman to save her life by rescue the man's abducted daughter. FLAME OF NEW ORLEANS, by Frances Patton Statham (Gold Medal), $195—Historical stuff about a Confederate spy with a union officer during the Civil War. THE SLAVE OF FRANKENSTEIN, by Robert J. Myers' (Pocket, $175)—In which the monster kidnaps the son of Frankenstein and keeps him alive to keep Gene Wilder jumped up in a long. AT BERTAMRS' HOTEL, by Agatha Christie (Pocket, $1.75)—Still another reprint of a famous novel, this one with Jane Mapple solving a murder at a famous GREAT HOME COOKING IN AMERICA, by Farm Journal editors (Pocket, $1.95) A book of recipes. Looks good. No plot available. "BRINGIN' IT TO K-STATE!" 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