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SCARLET AND BLACK

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of hesitation, groping for the
locker I knew to be meant for
Me. The Door was Not Locked
tub.) and as I pulled it open,
I saw what had been meant for
me!

But it was all too much. Slam-
ming the Door in my dread. I
collapsed upon the floor in parox-
isms of fear and weeping, rolling
about on the unyielding concre»
tion of its suriace, and breaking
my teeth upon some near-by iron-
work. Composing myself at last
with great difficulty, 3 dampened
handkerchief, and some Sen-Sen
1 generally carry about in my
pocket. I approached again the
aweful Door.

And once again I recognized
the person of my spiritual tutor,
St. Caraunus, his lively face split
by his customary steely grin.+
In my dismay, I tried to tell him
of our old aquaintance, dating
from the time when, at the age
of eight, I happened to purchase
the fifth volume of Earrings
Gould’s Lives of the Saints at the
Glasoow bus and Trolly Ter-
minus. But he waved this aside.
What need [or me to telling —
he, my Beatrice, my Antigone,
my Virgil, Sancho Panza, Or-
pheus, Pancho Villa and Villa-
Lobos’!

”Nay, nay, me laddie,“ he said,
though in flawless 5th century
prom-French. ‘This puts me to
mind of a most amusing and

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Scots clergyman on his death-
bediin dialect, of course. But I
must Forbear.) “Nay, “he said,
“ask what yemust.

My heart athump, I leaned
toreward and whispered to my
tutor the question that had been
tearing at my quivering entrails
this long time:

“Is Basketball True?”

IL was as though this gnawing
tumor had been pulled suddenly!
and violently from my quaking
miserable Body, leaving it sound
and firm, though bloodied in the
ecstatic agony of separation. I
really felt much better.

An indulgent chuckle (not
untelnpered with a casmalogical
malice) came through that
clenched grin. Well, “he boomed,
his neck snapping straight up»
right, “I certainly wouldn‘t want
to exclude it as an hypothesis.
You don't suppose, that the
gentlemen at the NCAA want
players eliminated alter their
fifth foul, do you (such as you
are?)? Far from it indeed. Cheap
metaphysical stuff and non-
sense. It's not as though it’s their
fault, you know. oh no, indeed!
The Rules of Basketball are as
immutable as the Laws of
Nature, Cause and Effect, and
the State of Iowa. A facinating
hypothesis, and something for
thought, to be certain. Nothing
to be excluded, of course, no
stomach to be left unturned. Per-
haps I can press you to aquaint
yourself with my latest, entitled
Prince Albert in a Can: 101 Next
'fi'icks You Can Do With Exis-
tentialPsychology.“

While this torrent of words
seeped into my brain, the Door

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Pianist Gives Excellent

Performance Before Small Crowd
By Kathryn Heinze

. The first Concert of the
semester was presented January
22 in Roberts Theatre by pianist
Nerine Barrett and it may go
down in the annals of history as
one of Grinnell’s more shameful
moments. For those of us who
complain about the cultural void
of the Iowa Cornfields, this
concert was a prime example of
why getting excellent performers
to come to.Grinnell is like pulling
impacted wisdom teeth. We
cannot ask reputable artists to
play to empty concert ‘halls or
on a poor piano. These-problems
were painfully evident on the
evening of Miss Barrett’s recital.
The attendance was so piddling
that any number of music
students could swear to have had
a better turnrout when they
played “Humoresque” at their
first piano recital, and God only
knows What the erratic action of
our twOVyearrold Baldwin did to
her playing.

In spite of these problems, the
hardcore concertrgoers were in
for a treat. Too often Grinnell
audiences are forced to put up
with a program heavily peppered
with renditions of hackneyed
music literature, Miss Barrett,

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closed, and opened again.” I
almost forget," he said, “this
final thing: In the game of Life,
as in the game of Basketball,
when you’re tackled, always fall
upwards.”

Suddenly I awoke to a cold grey
dawn to the sound of an orange
crate Falling on my head.

Yours,
“AFriend”

+ See my volume, “This Wisdom
is Not of The World." or Wit‘s
Apostasy. The Collected
AphorismoisuCaranus.

Questions For Further
Discussion:
1, Immanuel Kant is reputed to
have said, “You made it, now
you live with it. Comment

2. There are at least seventeen
punctuation marks in the above.
Can you find them?

3. Which way, America?

MW

however, possessed the good
taste and the intelligence to
present a concert which con-
tained several rarely-performed
and interesting works.

She opened with Mozart’s “Ten
Variations in G on a Theme by
Gluck, ‘Unser dummer Pobel
Meint,’ K. 455,” and had Mozart
heard it, he would have leapt for
joy and smiled at the, heavens.
But in this Work as in the other
two Mozart selections that
followed 7 “Adagio in E minor,
K. 540” and Glgue in G, K. 57 ”
she had definite problems with
the piano. Several keys in the
middle register refused to
respond to anything short of a
good, hard poke. Consequently,
many of her chords were broken
and punctuated with facial
grimaces. It IS embarrassing to
find oneself slave to a faulty
instrument, and this realization
was of no help to her in the Schu-
bert sonata. Although the
“Sonata in A minor, Op. 143” is
a challenging work, her perform-
ance of it was technically solid.
Miss Barrett, howeva, seemed
to have difficulty relaxing into
the keys, and her pauses between
sections were uncomfortably
long. Whether this can be at-
tributed to nervousness or to her
own distinctive style of playing
ishardto say.

The second part of the program
provided Miss Barrett with
numerous opportunities to
display her impressive technique
and musicality. Her performance
of Ravel’s “Valses Nobles et
Sentimentales” told the audience
that she was more at ease. It
is a delightful piece, and she
captured its lilting rhythms quite
successfully. The recital ended
with Prukovief‘s ”Sonata in D
minor, Op. 14,” and I have no
complaints about this work: it
was well executed, and Miss
Barrett appeared to possess the
necessary strength in her playing
that aProkovief sonata demands.

It would have been worthwhile
for anyone to have attended this
concert. The works performed
were of definite merit, and Miss
Barrett is a young and promising

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pianist. It is regrettable that her
recital was presented to an
audience of thirtyrfive people and
that she was forced to play on
a malfunctioning piano. Perhaps
little can be done about a small
audience, but the Baldwin could
be taken care of— the city dump
is six miles south oftown.

Lawrence Halls
May Serve Beer

A Lawrence University Com~
munity Council (LUCC) proposal
permitting dormitories to serve
beer during approved parties
held in the living units was signed
this week by President Thomas
S. Smith.

The proposal, under study by
a LUCC committee for me past
year, is directed at encouraging
the use of residence halls for so-
cial activities and at keeping
these activities on campus. Prior
to the enactment of the
legislation, social groups and
residence balls were holding
parties off campus at clubs where
beer was being served. This

- arrangement necessitated trans-

porting students to and from the
parties, and. in some instances,
limited the number of Students
who could participate in a party.

The legislation requires that
parties at which beer is served
must be approved by a majority
vote of the residents
and must be registered with the
Dean’s office. No more than four
parties per term may be held in
aliving unit.

Parties will be limited to the
common areas of the living unit
and beer will be served only
during times designated for a
party. The Dean’s Office wiu be
responsible for regulating the
program.

The swimming test will be
given on Monday and Wednesday
at 3:00 AM. and on Tuesday and
Thursday at 3:00 and 10:00 AM.
for the rest of the quarter. It is
necessary to pass this test to help
fulfill your physical education
reuuirement.

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