SCARLET AND BLACK Page Nins_ Friday, April l2, I‘ibBr By BARRY ANCONA l have noted that touring companies performances at Grin- hell have always produced an inordinate amount of applause. 1 think I know why. The country kids are glad to have any expo« sure to culture, and the City kids, socially starved out here, are keen for any reminders of home. This may seem a very Stucksup, better-than-thou attitude. It is. Wicked City is a touring company — a New York show on the road. Maybe you got a glimpse oi it Visiting the big town, but let me tell you: New York is a great place to live, but i wouldn’t want [0 Visit. To really appreciate the wicked city e any wicked city — you have to live in it; feel it in you as you try to find whztt you're about. When you grow up in a small town, as you get older, you get to know more and more people in the town. When you grow up in a city, as you get older you get to know more and more people, but you also meet thousands of people you don’t know. This is the challenging thing about life in the city 7 the people you meet every day that you don’t know, that you will never see again. It’s trighteiiing when you are knifed, a block from your home, by someone you have never seen before. It’s a relief to know you may never see him again. it’s exciting to meet some girl you’ve never seen before. And depressing to think you may never see her again. But that's what Wicked City is all about. The high school pals, and girls next door, and every smalHown way of life is there, but it's threading the maze of indifference and coincidence, the long subway ride home, that makes the city unique. I'm going to talk about a certain subway line. i used it fre- quently during my senior year in high school. Mostly between midnight and 3 am. it would be nice to think that l was travelling long distances to sow my wild oats far from home, but it was just coincidence that almost every girl i knew lived in the West Bronx, just off the Jerome Avenue line (That meant a 45 minute subway ride Ind a lo minute walk to get home), Of course. these were Wicked City girls, They were my age (15) or a bit younger. They did not go to my high school (it was all boys). They were all bright. And pretty good-looking. And all had some screwy hang-up. i mean screwy. Nothing ordinary in hang-ups lar them. One girl had a mother who was trying to act the age that the girl was, and correspondingly tried to make the girl look and act like a iive-yearcld. One girl had a Jewish father and a Catholic mother who got divorced. The father then married a Protestant. The girl also wanted to be a ballet dancer. But her build (about five feet tall, and livmg proof that the cantilever principle works), although quite appealing. was not cut out, so to speak, for ballet. One girl had a great home life, and was happy in her work and play, and could have passed tor Nancy Normal, if she hadn't been a bit hungsup because she was raped when she was eleven. My only hangsup was that I was hung on girls with hangrups. A real social worker. With a few ulterior motives But back to that subway. it would be possible, I imagine, to have three such girls living on three blocks of Main Street, Grina hell. But to come and go with each one without detection by the others would require travelling through the sewer system and popping out of secluded storm drains. That’s kind of what the subway is. The Jerome Avenue line is not a subway at all in the Bronx — it is an elevated. The station plattorms Vibrate as trains pass. You can look down between the ties to the street below, or, over your shoulder, into Somebody’s apartment. Most of the plaliorm is uncovered — you can wait twenty minutes in a blizzard for a train. When you ride a subway train at night, you ride in either the first or the middle car. The motorman is in the first, and the conductor in the middle. This was in the days beiore policemen rode the trains. I was five [eat four inches in those days. it's diiierent now. When i drive my car in the city, I feel I've turned it. It's so safe and isolated in a car. But park the Car and walk a block and the old feeling is back. There is a challenge to walk a straight line, with unexpected pleasure and pain lurking right and lett. And when you realize that y’ou’must expect the unexpected, 'you have submitted to the , urst initiation rite oi the Wicked- City. Enjoyt You M y Be Next iii USTBlAL CIA STA S RADiCALS By JEANNE VANDERVOORT of the 5&E’s Chicago Bureau The American Security Coun— cil, not to he Conlused with the National Security Council, has its headquarters in an un- marked gray building on North Wacker Drive in Chicago. There is no listing for the first five floors on the elevator directory; the sixth floor houses the American Security Council and the seventh floor, the l - stitution lor the Study of Ameri- can Strategy. The Council was formed in l955 as an organization through which the private sector of the society might help to meet the Communist challenge in the cold war. It is still Concerned with meeting the Communist challenge. Explains John M. Fisher, President of the ASC,: “The A m e r i c a n Security Council is a private organiza- ' n fact, now its a corpor- Tlie organization in c l u d e 3 among its members companies, foundations, universities and college and private institutions (working together to meet their responsibilities in the interests of national security, says some of the literature of the organi. Zatiun.) Security checks, either on employees or associates, are run by the Council for its mem- ber businesses. “We‘re nonrp a r t l s a n, of course," says Fisher. “We are Interested only in a person’s background; whether it. is [all or right.” Students who participate in demonstrations or Sign petitions or complicity statements get into the organizations files. According to Candace Mc- Chesney, a Haines sophomore who worked in the Council’s otfices last year, several Grin. uell students were on file. Information and names are obtained from magazine and newspaper clippings. These are stored in the re- search center llbrary, a large room with few windows. An index of over Six milllun cards and stacks which Con— tain hundreds of publications llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Book Review DADA, ART AND ANTI-ART By ROBIN STANDISH LIBERATION News Service Dada, Art and Anti-Art. Hans Richter. lvlccraw i-iili. 53.95 paperback. Dada represents an unfin- ished revolution in art, one that our movement artists to- day are continuing. Dada was a great era when art was an organic part or the artist‘s life; artists were not afraid to make a statement, they wanted to communicate on Vital lev- els, and art gave meaning to their lives. Arr, llle. and rev- olution were united. The publi- cation ol l-lans Richter's mag- niiicent book. Dada, Art and Anti-Art is an important event, for Dada raises some vital questions not only about art, but about life and revolution. We who are Movement peo- ple, following the lead of tho anarchists and other decentra— lists and libertarians, are be- coming more and more coit- cerned to live our revolution. We are seeking to build a life which is regenerative before (or at least at the same time as) i! is revolutionary, a life which creates the new, in our own lives, while it destroys the decay in society (and in our own lives). Can this be done? Or is a whole, regen- erative life antithetical to a struggle for massive social Change? We all know what happened in prerNazi Germany. The Da- daists did not prevent Hitler, and neither did deeply anti- Nazi people who withdrew from the struggle both psychically and physically to live regen» ei'ative lives in rural intentionv al communities such as the Bruderhot. Yet both groups af- ter us some clues. some people are seeking rural communities which will maintain Itmnz ties with tho ‘ city, with a lot or movement back and forth, as people work in free universities, guerilla theater, etc, Some will manage to make their peace With the city, finding regenerative lives with or without community. For some people, art offers its own answer, Yea—saying Dada was concerned with the rebirth of society. Art of this nature is revolutionary; it gets in people’s guts. Art as the com— munlcation of life, art as an extension of self to others,— art from community in the form or guerilla theater, music, painting, whatever—such art of- fers a synthesis of a regener- ative lite and revolutionary so- cial change. When this hap- pens, we are picking up on the unfinished revolution of Dada. Dada, Art and Anti-Art is a loving account by one of Dada's creators, hence its vitality and spirit. This is nu mere scholar- ly history, though it possesses that element too. The book is filled with pictures, some in color. There is a good selec- tion of drawings and posters, and even some poetry and short plays. in addition there are pictures of the artists, and it is a great delight to find that Hans Arp looks like his work. The $3.95 paperback is a ver- sion of a gorgeous s50 hardr back, an awesiuspiring book that good public libraries should have. Richter, with Hugo Ball, Tzara, lluelsenbeck, Arp and several Others originated Dada in about 1916. Cnaracteristicale ly, they disagreed actively about the origin at the word “dada.” Richter’s explanation, the love- liest one, i think, is that it stems from Tazara and Janco’s Rumanlau ‘da-da,‘ an approv- ing expression that accented DADA— - - (Continued'on Page 12) occupies the floor space of the library. The publications, magazines, newspapers and newsletters are a pretty comprehensive sam- pling of both rightist and leftist materials printed in the U.S. claims a spokesman. Several student newspapers were apparent in the files as were an abundance of SDS, Dubois, Young Socialist and various civil rights newsletters. Rightist publications are not us evident. Workers in the library under— line names found in the pub. iicatlons for future reference. For example, the name Alan Jones, author of an article in the Political Science Quarterly was underlined. (The Federal Bureau of In. vestigation and the Central In- telligence Agency have used the libraries facilities, says Carr dace.) A pamphlet entitled: “Just What is the American Security Council?” describes the organ- ization: “Key leaders of commerce and industry recognized that pri- vate businesses have an es pecially urgent need to rise to the challenge of Communism, which is dedicated to the DESTRUCTION oi the tree enterprise system." “Accordingly, the American Security Council was organized as a non-profit business as- sociation to increase awareness ofthe long term Communist objectives and to develop new and original approaches in countering Communism’s war to conquer the world." iiiillitiilliiiiiitiiilliiiillliiilliiiiilliiilllliililiiiillililliiiilllliilliiiililn FEDERAL AID T0 PEACENIKS IOWA CITY, lowa (LNS) — Several groups of University of loiva students are donating part of their federally financed scholarships to antiwar groups. Twentyrsix graduate students with teiiowships trim the Na- tional Defense Education Act, the National institute of Child Health and Development, and the National Science Founda- tion have pledged up to halt of 'their monthly checks to “hu- manitarian relief work in Viet- nain" and “legitimate political dissent in the United States. They say they have collected more than $500 and that an- other $1,000 has been pledged. Three graduate students attend- ‘ lng school on the 6! bill said they would give at least one- tenth of their monthly checks and possibly more. “The same government which is paying for our education is also financing the destructive war in Vietnam,” the group of graduate fellows said in a state. ment, “and for us to remain silent is implicitly to approve this policy. in view of the re sponsibility to the United States to which we are all committed as’ recipients of government grants, we have decided that the most meaningful action we can take is to donate a portion