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Theodore Roethke from The M in im a l
With only three weeks to go before the Student Association elections, the only announced candidate so far is Fred Tucker, run
ning on the “Tuppa-Ware- P arty” ticket. There have been some rumors about a
“Pot P arty” ticket but, only a lot of smoke has been seen so far.
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Dorothy McPherson, a professor in the Spanish D epartm ent, wishes to thank all those who sent cards and letters during her hospital stay. McPherson is recuperating from surgery at St. Francis Hospital.
March 2 . It 77
Letter/
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Dear Editor,
I just transfered here and have already witnessed a most tragic incident.
I would hate to see Alan slip into obscurity without his passing even being noted.
It seems as if this poor chap had an 8 am chemistry class on Tuesday, followed by a math and physics class. Wed
nesday began with another chemistry lecture, followed by lab with a 50 m inute recitation, and a physics class topping the day off.
On our way across Blake Street to my car (to get small after class) Alan just stopped dead his eyes flashing off and on like large, red, light emit
ting diodes. With smoke pouring out his nose and ears, he stood there incessantly
mumbling: E equals MC\ E equals MC*, E equals MC* Then, as abruptly as the seizure started, he began shaking violently, literally disintegrating into dust right in front of me.
I was shocked.
There’s a terrible mess out there, but I’m at a loss as toi whom to report it to. I suppose something ought to be done about it.
Does IUPUI lose many of it’s students this way?
Transiently Yours, I M Nuts P.S. If you happen to know of anyone requiring a calculator, backpack, or the a b o v e -m e n tio n e d b o o k s, they're a little dusty but ought to be quite a buy for the price.
Elections can't wait Letter to the Editor,
I have never in my life seen so much bureaucracy, except in the federal government. We have only 21 days or so (nobody knows for sure)
before the student elections, and the Student Court hasn’t even finished the petitions required before nominations can be entered.
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I.U. law professor discusses immunity
Bloom ington—Holding a hostage at gunpoint with the thought of gaining immunity is likely to be less attractive to terrorists in the future, accor
ding to an I.U. law professor Edw ard Sherm an, who teaches constitutional law and civil and criminal procedures at I.U. School of Law- Bloomington, believes that coerced grants of immunity are not as useful now.
In an interview, he com
mented on this and on aspects of the Anthony Kiritsis case in Indianapolis.
“ I think there would be r doubt in a criminal’s mind about the validity of the promise of immunity. I think some kind of negotiations, in this kind of situation where lives are at stake, are necessary. But in any future cases I think the terrorist should be told under what conditions immunity can be given. When it doesn’t apply, the government should respond by promising to look into the terrorist’s real or fan
cied problem.”
Sherm an believes the governm ent should act honestly in such dealings, but it should also point out when a demand or requested action is not permissible under the laws of the land.
Historically, the concept of immunity for criminals and
* those charged- with crimes goes back to Anglo-American traditions, Sherman said, and he maintained that any com
plex legal system today has to have provisions for immunity.
‘‘There are often complex societal reasons for granting
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immunity to persons who have crim inal charges pending against them,” said Sherman, and he cited some examples:
Law enforcement authori
ties may make arrangements with a member of a conspir acy in order to get critical information leading to the capture of the other conspira
tors in return for a promise of immunity from prosecution
At times, under certain cu.\
ditions, the governor or prosecutor may grant im
munity in a prison riot situation when hostages are taken and prisoners have made certain demands.
Whole or partial immunity may be granted for certain acts a person has committed when that person is charged with a crime and will turn state’s evidence (testify for the prosecution).
The prosecutor (city, state, or federal) may agree to plea bargaining, a kind of im munity, and drop more serious charges in return for a plea of guilty to lesser charges.
In such cases it is very im
portant that immunity be of
fered in good faith, he said.
: he Anthony Kiritsis case is a different situation. Immunity is usually granted in return for some beneficial action which
‘is lawful. This was not the case with Kiritsis. He attemp
ted to get immunity by threat
ening to commit an illegal act—the murder of a hostage.
“ There is a coercion element and I think a promise of immunity granted under duress or coercion is not en forceable,” Sherman said. ‘‘I believe one of the issues will be whether the state is ( bligated to fulfill an agreement of this kind under
la-ess.”
One approach which could e used in a subsequent trial is the estoppel doctrine,
Sherman pointed out. This simply means that once you have done certain things on which another person has relied, then you may not act inconsistently on the same matters There is a legal ques tion, however, as to whether estoppel can be used against the government.
Sherman believes the Kirit
sis case may open a whole can of ‘legal worms.’ He thinks it
will also provoke some thought about promises and action in any future cases of terrorists’ demands
“ I think it’s important that society thinks these things out and is prepared to deal with this kind of situation in the future,” he said. “ We have to decide what can be legally promised and whether the ex
pected outcome is worth the promises.”
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Sagam ore March 2,1*77
Humus
Gee, this is my first column, and I'm on plowshares and stove bolts. It’s great. Before, they (those nasty people on the Sagamore staff) would only let me write a letter, but now I’ve got my own column, and that’s right, it's a humus column.
Humus. You know what that is. I t’s what there isn’t enough of. You don’t believe me? You don’t even know what it is, much less are you qualified to truly savor the true quality of it’s peram
bulating mental aroma.
Humus is (for instance):
How does Richard Hall like his cheese spread? On a Kiritsis Cracker. That’s humus.
Humus is what you have when you run your hand along a window sill—searching out redoubtable—and pick up a few splinters. And it is also what you have on your hands when you babysit for your nephew Harold and don’t have enough money to keep him shut up about the lady you were praying with on the couch (and it is also sym
bolic).
You doubt my symbolism,
my surrealism, my mystic g u t- l e v e l k a r m i s t i c philosophy? Do you not grovel to discover that your life is nothing more than a hedge apple along the roadside, directly in the path of Zeb Pantstripper’s Moline? Oh, thou foolish and scurillous knave. Behold!
Humus is what you have behind the ears, on your shoes and covering your hands (especially when shaking them with someone you want to impress). My lord, humus is!
And humus is versatile too.
Think of how many other purely groundless words derive their meaning from the word! Haven’t you ever read about someone being exhum used? See?
Or how about a humusdor.
Put that in your meerscham Why, your very connatative description is a derivative from that oft-time ‘dirtified’
word humus. That’s right, the word is really humus being.
Now, don’t you feel dirty?
Humus is a new
movie—Blew Spit; starring John Inane, “Jim ” Darby &
Hank Williams.
Humus is Billy Carter ac
ting the buffoon in order to draw attention away from his newly-elected-President- brother-who-is-also-peanutty but-really-is-a-good ol’ boy.
Humus is Idi Amin’s and Uganda’s favorite national an
them. You know, C&mptown races are tonight, Dada, Dada. Amin, brother.
Yeah, humus is dirty, filthy, yet earthy, and you can find it anywhere. Furthermore, it is dirt cheap.
Cheap like Charlie Chan, af- i ter throwing his arch-enemy I to the sharks: “ Ming, die
nasty.”
But this is not to say that humus does not merit equal ranking with such ethereal things as green popcorn or mold on your coffee. Oh no.
Well, that should just about do it, don’t you think? If you know of any humus, feel free to send me a line, expressing your own little bit of earthy witticism. Just please send it to the Sagamore office. Yes, my sweet, send it all, c/o Humus Column, and I’ll an
swer it if I feel like it. Ciao.
March 2, 1177 Sagam ore 5
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The hours for the Italian Village are: Monday through Thursday, 11:30 am to 12 mid
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by M. William Lutholtx
Have you noticed what a neat job the major networks are doing in the art of cinema rip-offs - more popularly known as Make- For-TV movies - by taking the plots of big box office hits and doing their own versions before the original is out of theatres?
Seems like everybody’s in the game, and so we have a sudden rash of telekinesic girls doing violent things to their school chums - before Carrie has made it to the small town theatre cir
cuit. Also the reproductions of the latest disaster rages, with slight variations, and the ever-popular exorcism stuff - in ad
vance of The Exorcist, Park II.
The problem is that the MTV movies are almost always in
ferior to the originals, yet they are palmed off to the public as
“real movies." This kind of quickie merchandising is bad for both the big screen and the little screen since it tends to draw good writers away from good scripts and the little screen since it tends to draw good writers away from good scripts that require time and effort. Instead, the end up churning out fast copies for fast bucks. The result: television movieland is rapidly turning infor an art gallery of many cheap reproductions and very few originals.
Plans are in the works at MGM for a sequel to their 1944 National Velvet with Liz Taylor. The name, of course, is Inter
national Velvet and will be based on the characters from the original movie. Plot line is about a young girl who also loves hor
ses and is adopted by Velvet Brown, the main character of the earlier film. Bryan Forbes has been signed to write and direct the new version.
*****
Spread the word! Lash LaRue is back in town!
Lash, the cowboy star of the 40’s and 50’s who always wore black and used a whip instead of a gun, has returned to Los Angeles. Only this time he’s cutting radio spots for Tompall Glaser and His Outlaw Band. Glaser and the boys have just released their first album for ABC Records and you’ll be hearing the Lash LaRue spots promoting it. Lash and Tompall ride again!
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With the recent surge in sales of “How To...” books, Ballentine paperbacks are releasing the ultimate how-to book. In fact, the title of the book is simply How To. In only 176 pages, autnor Peter Passell tells you how to: cure tennis elbow, join the D.A.R., choose a German wine; get an audience with the Pope;
predict earthquakes; cure snoring; get a divorce for $100;
calculate your life expectancy; increase your height; read your FBI file...and so on. For those of you in Med Sci and Nursing, I haven’t seen a copy of the book yet so I can’t tell you if he has a section on “How To GetAn A in Advanced Chem ist^” ...
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It’s been almost two months since I first heard the SanFord Townsend's first album (asppropriately titled The Sanford Townsend Band) and if you haven't taken my word yet, I will remind you again: thiss is one of the best albums of last year and the Grammies have once again proven their ignorance of the business by not nominating them for Best New Group. The disc rates with Steely Dan’s Countdown TRo Ecstasy and Wing’s Band On The Run.
If there are any local disc jockies who want to make a name for themselves for musical foresight, this the The Album to do it with. I tell you no lies; it is a disc worth the price of engaging your station program director in mortal combat -Koss Pro-4 AA’s, at forty paces, at dawn, choose your seconds - and your listeners will love you dearly for it.
Mark my word: if The Sanford Townsend Band does not make the big time, then there is no justice in radioland!
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>ncert Cultcha Dept.: Leo Kottke will hold his collection of high-speed guitars and an audience captive at the Indiana Theatre March 5. I saw him at the Rivoli a couple of years back and this guy is dynamite!...Con way TwiUy and Loretta Lynn at the Coliseum for two show, March 6. ..^rennaissance and Gentle Giant at the Indiana Theatre March 8. (And for those who haven't seen it yet, there is a new two-record Gentle Giant live album on Capitol. Tasty.)...John McLaughlin and Larry Coryell at the Indiana Theatre March 11...The Marshall Tucker Band at
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I K I B H L m y . I B W 2 E I I 3
by JACK MOORE
March 2, lt77 Sagamore 7
City Boy is physically addictive
by Gary Webb City Boy
Dinner at the RiU Mercury
Ever get an album which is physically addictive? A couple of songs reel around your brain all day until you rush home, crank up the amp and let them blast away at your senses? Dinner at the RiU is such as album. I'm on a two- hour a day habit right now and no end to my craving is in sight.
City Boy is a relatively new group from England and Din
ner at the RiU is their second album, the first arriving to rave reviews from nearly every publication.
There’s a lot of talk about musical diversity these days but Dinner at the Rits should give that term a whole new definition. This album runs the gamut: BTO and Queen are most prevalent but heavy
strains of lOcc, Supertramp, Sparks, Hall and Oates and Pink Floyd are there, all done with a flair and confidence that is very endearing.
One thing remains evident, however, no m atter which style they choose to employ:
the intensity and power of the guitar choruses and the rythym pieces. A slow, melodical song can suddenly erupt into a thundering blit-
zkreig at one moment and then flit off into a multitrack harmony, keeping the same general feeling the whole time.
Lyrically, these guys are no slouches either. Slick, adroit, and intelligent without the inherent smugness or preten
tiousness of many a
"cultured” group. City Boy plays gentlemen’s rock and they play it well.
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O ne of the most celebrated events on television last year was the story of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt in their early years. N o n Jan e Alexander and Edward Herrmann continue their portrayals of the Roosevelts in "Eleanor and Franklin:
The White H ouse Years." Don’t miss it.
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Once when I was talking to my mother, a native of Pices, I remarked that I was considering the purchase of a Toyota She looked at me with a perfectly serious face and replied, “ If I were you, dear, I'd wait till I could get a real Ota.”
Actually, I make that up; but it’s a good sample of the kind of conversation one gets from a native of Pisces Bom ap
proximately February 19 through March 20, depending on the year, Pisces people are the most individually exasperating of all the zodiacal signs. It's a little-publicized fact that, among astrologers, we joke that the good Lord gave all the routine or normal qualilties to the first eleven signs of the zodiac, found that He had one sign left, and tossed in all the garbage that didn't make a lick of sense.
Ruled by Neptune, planet of dreams and illusions. Pisceans are capable of believing anything and in anything, couldn't care an iota less for facts or even evidence, and will argue the most intenable and absurd notions with passion, tears and completely unscrupulous tactics. It is this peculiar openness to oddity, to the bizarre and inexplicable, that gives them both charm and often the talent to discover truths which logical people know cannot be The Pisces native sees with eyes within, with an inner vision that may well be warped or distorted - like looking into mirrors in a fun house - precisely what he or she wants to see
It is Pisces talking when a mother has a soon who has held up a bank, shot the guard and two tellers, raped somebody on the way out, kidnapped another person - and Mama say knowingly, “It was probably his bowels; he’s always been constipated.''
It is Pisces who believes in a world at the center of the Earth, sees dead Uncle Bill standing at the foot of the bed, reads omens into silverware falling off the table, or takes up a new fad religion that accepts dishwater as divine.
It is Pisces who always hated the son-in-law or daughter-in-law but is first t<Tdefend that person, first to offer help in a time of need.
And it is Pisces who buys the story of the most obvious con man, the most clearly shiftless human being in the world, and takes him home for dinner.
And what is really exasperating about Pisces is the fact that, now and then, he is absolutely right about the criminal, really is in communication with the spirit world, and actually does rehabilitate that worthless slob. But right or wrong, the Piscean throws the story up to you year after year until you begin to believe that he was right and you were wrong. No one is a more confusing argurer.
People of Pisces are contradictory; you never know where you stand with them This doesn't change their stands, beliefs, plans and courses of action without prior notice or any discer
nible reason.
These individuals are frequently intuitive, imaginative, beauty-loving, security-needing, yet often extravagent, inclined to wear their feelings on their sleeves, parents who spoil (sometimes literally) their children, empathetic, thin-skinned and able to take offense at the slightest inflection, completely unrealistic, poetic and musicil, vague, impressionable and gullible, bad listeners, endless talkers, hopelssly romantic, in
decisive, impossible to pin down, blithely happy, starkly morose, ready to meddle, ready to help, superficial, and bigoted, sometimes all at the same time or within a single day! They make the best mates or parents, and the worst; they handle people like politicians, or paid assassins; they are absolutely marvelous company and the worst enemies you can have. But nobody ever forgets the impact that Pisces native has upon his or her life.
CELEBRITIES OF PISCES:
Elizabeth Taylor Elizabeth Barrett Browning Einstein Sidney Poiter . Mia Farrow . Edna St. Vincent M illay Longfellow Jam es Russel Lowell...Grim ..Edgar C ayce.C roiset (psychic) . Sen. Ted Kennedy Robert Conrad...Cyrano . Michelangelo ..Luther Burbank Bobby Fischer. Richie 1 Dick) Allen . Chamberlain John Updike Coue Dinah Shore
Left U right: J w c fh E n G w I C S T Water Sappiy Breach.
IISEPA; John < ratMock. Water QaalMy IMvtiiaa. O ty Maa cle, Indians. Oral H. Hert. DirfeUr, Bureau of K ^ ia m iiK , Indiana Slate Board of Health; Robert J. Becker. Vftce- Pre*ideal. Plant Operation*. Indianapolis Water Company, led Ike flaal session of the conference with an open d n c n u n n
Lack of money, trained people, mistrust of federal programs cited as blocks for safe drinking water
photon and story by Harry Goodyear Mayor William H; Hudnut, speaking at a February 25 and 26 water quality conference described the two main problems of cleaning area sur face water systems as the
“impact of effluent on White River" and the "parochialism of human nature "
The conference sponsored by the League of Women Voters and the Purdue University School of Science at IUPUI was held at the Krannert Building on the 38th Street Campus
Hudnut indicated planning agencies need moral support not only from political figures and elected representatives but from the community as a whole
la the conference which mixed water supply and waste water pollution p rob lem s.
Hudnut asked som e tough questions;
“What are we doing with our wastes?"
“What is the cost benefit ration?"
“ Should we h ave the Highland Dam?”
“What is the obligation to fund an advance waste treat
ment program?'*
Dr Jay H Lehr. Executive D irector American Water Well Association and a mem ber of the National Drinking Water Advisory Council, followed Hudnut’s rem arks noting the mayor is one of the original sponsors of the 1974 Safe Dnnking Water Act, a
law which only two states. In
diana and Pennsylvania, have declined to accept primary responsibility for enforcing
Lehr is opposed to the Highland Dam and said “wells can be developed for one quarter the cost of a new dam Underground water supplies half of America’s drinking vater Northeastern Marion County real estate owners will profit the most with a dam ”
The 1974 law defines “public lin k in g water" as that which serves 15 connections or 25 people c ^ tin u o u sly for M day*. According to Lehr, the law i* too general and the im
plementing agency, the En
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cy (E P A ). actually make*
legislative decision* about en
forcement of it.
He cited lack of money, lack of trained people, and mistrust of federal program*
as major stumbling blocks for the sa fe drinking w ater legislation
Dr Daniel Okun, Keenan Professor, Department of En vironm ental E ngineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, spoke of dual water systems, regional plan rung and drainage basin con si derations
The reluctance to create large regional approaches is a problem according to Okun
The Regional Water Districts were so effective during last’s years drought in
England, the drought was minimized by water transfers between regions This success led to the publication of a book. We Didn’t Wait for the Rain, by England’s water authority
Okun noted the chemical revolution of post WW II has placed a great burden on our water supplies Over 2 million synthetic compounds have been formulated and about a thousand new ones come out each year
As far as chemical pollu tants are concerned, Okun suggested the 1965 goals of Federal Water Pollution Act of 1972 cannot be met He asked, "If we can't trace 70 tons of carbon tetrachloride to its source m the Ohio River, how can we trace the trickles of pollutants coming from everywhere
University, noted sediment from rural roads, stream bank and farm field eraio n and surface mining are major uses of surface w ater ution This sedim ent carries with it up to 45 per cent of the nitrogen applied to farm fields and other substances, insecticides, air pollutants which fall on land and water, forest and crop residues and herbicides He said Indiana is c u r r e n t l y c o n s id e r i n g legislation. House Bill 1932, to control sediment pollution
Jean P ackard, National Association of Counties noting that regional concepts, often condemned as com mumstic, are required to ef fectively solve w ater problems faced by this nation
Packard urged citizen par ticip ation and su g g ested
“ sew ers m ake laud use Okun indicated an answer to
safe dnnking water problems is to develop parallel water systems reserving unpolluted sources for ingestion and using polluted or "reclaimed"
water when human ingestion is not the intended use
Dr. David Frey, Depar tment of Zoology, Indiana University, cited a need to protect the esthetic value and fish life of our streams and provide fresh w ater for swimming
Speaking of agncultural in
fluences on water pollution, Dr. Harry Galloway, Depart ment of Agronomy, Purdue
deeixiou* .’* She suggested that citizens should not just register a complaint oocr but beat on the door often If local action is not forthcoming, the door i* Region V of the EPA.
Chicago
F orm er congressm an J Edward Roush (D Ind ), disclosed one of his quests of
"personal and professional life is w ater quality "
Opening his presentation with lines from Samuel Taylor Coleridge noting the stenches of Cologne and how the Rhine River cleansed the city, Roush isked local people concerned with water quality locally
what Coiendge asked in Cologne “What power divine will wash the Rhine**"
Joseph H arrison, Chief, Water Supply Branch.
USEPA, Region V, noted In diana must comply with the Safe Dnnking Water Act of 1974 whether or not the state accepts prim acy for im piementation of the law
Oral H Hert, Technical Secretary, Indiana Stream Pollution Control Board, suggested that enforcement of the Safe Dnnking Water Act will have a great economic impact because of the logistics nvoived, too many reports required
He indicated enforcement of the Federal Water Quality Act of 1972 will follow guidelines which will allow plant* not able to meet federal standard*
to rem ain free from prosecution as long as they m eet certain p ro g ressiv e deadlines in effort* to attain federal standard*
The two day conference drew 150 persons and was fun ded by an EPA grant to the league of Women Voters for educating the public The grant was shared by the Safe Dnnking Water Task Force, LWV of Indiana and the 208 Planning Task Force, LWV of Indianapolis
Section 208 of the 1972 Water Quality Act provides for and requires public involvement in the planning of water quality control
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Network promotes Nielson vacuity
by Christine Kopitzke While Sidney Lumet’s Net
work m asquerades as an epigram describing the broadcase media as the quin
tessence of voracious cor
porations, it really is more of a belated indication of the vacuity of national television's programming born of almighty Nielson.
Network does take an an , noying, detached look into some lives ruined and sacrificed by the rating game.
For instance, Diana Christiansen (fashionab!}
emaciated Faye Dunaway), the hyperkinetic head ol programming, for whom ratings have become a fix.
Her conversation and in
terrelationships with other human beings consists only of monologues about UBS, her station, and she refrains from thinking or talking about the network only once in a rather predictable moment with Max Shumacher (William Holden>
while they're in bed.
Shumacher, who was heac of UBS news before Diaro ferreted herself into the hear of that department too, has lit tie of the idealistic energy anc values he began with in hit career's inception. If Howart Beale (Peter Finch), the UB5 anchorman, wants to threater suicide, blaspheme, and even tually disintegrate int<
catatonia before millions ol viewers, if it will heighten tin ratings, well, he simply musi be sacrificed. Shumachei makes a few faltering attempts to salvage Beale’s life and dignity, but against vampires with the rapacious appetites of Christiansen and other UBS executives, Shumacher soon capitulates.
In fact, he gives his tacit approval.
UBS news ultimately cen
ters around Beale's ev an g elistic exhortations against corporations and thr upper middle class in general, a prophet named Sybil Soothsayer, and a Rona
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Barret type columnist, all of whom transfigure the news from the usual half hour of dissemination of world events into an atmosphere with all the solemnity and per
spicacity of Let's Make a Deal.
It’s hard to understand all the hubbub over this film. It's no news that serialed programs exist because the ratings so dictate, nor is it surprising that the ratings measure as they do because they are a reflection of the
general mentality of those glued into prime time night af
ter night after night. Not everyone is a tube baby, though emotionally sterile Diana Christiansen might be.
If Paddy Chayefsky, the screenwriter, intended the film as a satire of media in
temperance, it certainly is that. There is no doubt that networks probably do go tr such extremes as creating
“Mao Tse-tung Hours’’ as does UBS in Network. But it’s just too quaint to be making
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any kind of significant statement about life in general, or the values of a specific set of people, namely TV addicts,
Chayefsky did far better with Marty, Lumet with The Pawnbroker, Dunaway with Bonnie and Clyde, and Holden with Picnic in giving the viewer a really intim ate glance into the lives of the lonely, alienated, antithetic hero whose inner life is any
thing but vacuous. All four would have been better off expending their energies and talents on a more meaningful story about the human condition.
Monty Python on PBS special
"Pleasure at Her Majesty's
—Python & Friends Comedy Special" will be presented Saturday, March 5 at 10 pm on Channel 20 over the Public Broadcasting Service.
The 70 minutes of hilarity will include Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Alan Bennett’s Telegram, Peter Cook’s Miner and the parody of Shakespeare from Beyond The Fringe, not to mention a host of Britain's world famous comedians.
The program evolves from the unusual reunion of famous British comedians at Her Majesty’s Theater in London in the Spring of 1976. The camera follows the prepara
tions and presentation of the show offstage and on.
PBS obtained this special for Festival '77, public television’s national fund
raising and public awareness drive.
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Kottke and special guest Dirk Hamilton will appear in con- Saturday, March S, at 8 pm at the Indiana llieatre.Rock Follies to a ir on PBS
New York—Rock Follies, a musical comedy series of British television this past season, will be televised v nationwide in March during Festival 77, Public Televi
sion's third annual national fund-raising and public awareness campaign.
The five-part series pre
mieres on Channel 20 March 7 at 10 pm over the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), bringing the spirit of the 1930s musicals to a contemporary story of three girls trying to
reach stardom as a rock singing group.
The five episodes trace the path of the trio through a con tinuous string of personal and professional crises in their climb toward the top, punc
turing the common belief that show business, and especially the world of rock music, is all glamour.
Rock Follies, a special acquisition for Festival 77, is a production of Thames Television International and was written by American-born Howard Schuman.
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March 2 , 1OT7Country rock can be fun
‘Bang (he Drum Slowly’ will be shown at IUPUI at the 38th Street Campus, March 3 at
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by Gary Webb
Of all the country rock han
ds, NRPS is the ooe I can listen to with a minimum of pain and suffering.
Not because they play any better than the others, but because they have something which the others clearly lack:
a sense of humor. The Eagles, Pure Prarie League, Jackson Browne and others of that ilk take themselves too damned seriously. It coukl be put down to melancholia they like to play; it's hard to have any humor left after years of singing about your girlfriend leaving you for your best friend.
Not that NRPS is free from that sort of thing. 'Must Another Night In Reno" is about a gambler with a broken
heart “By And By When I Need You" deals with a guy whose girlfriend is leaving him (for his best friend, no doubt) and on and on.
But when they dry their tears, NRPS can be pretty amusing. Unfortunately, they-*
don’t write the humorous songs themselves, but it’s the thought that counts. “High Rollers” is a wry look at Hollywood; “I Can Heal You”
is about a female faith healer who cures anatomically and
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American music and the great romantic love myth
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by M. William Lutholtx Americans are a people committed to their myths. We cling to them as dearly as young children believing in the Tooth F airy and the Easter Bunny. But of all our myths, perhaps the one we hold dearest is our myth of romantic love.
We inherited the romantic love myth from our European ancestors and, though we have abided to it, subtracted from it, and generally jumbled it up as best we could, we still hang on to it. Not only do we hang on to it, we reinforce it with our books, our movies, our television shows.S.and our music.
I ’m not talking strictly about the Camelot knight-in- s h in in g - a r m o r r o u ti n e (although our Broadway show tunes do contribute). No, it’s on the Top 40 charts, it’s on the Grammy Awards, it's in the most "'liberated” music and minds of our culture. And oh, how we do love to wallow in it.
Take Eric Carmen for in
stance, one of the bright lights of rock music and generally regarded as not a slow lyricist. Yet he turns out such profound lines as: “ Deep down inside I know/what I should be saying/but everytime I try it comes out wrong/Well our love is a love forever/and when we’re alone together she shows m e ”
Or how about the next verse: “I’d need a lifetime/to show her all the love I have to give/And hold her in my h e a rt/F o r as long as I live/We’U stick together /Like the moon and the night- time/Happy forever... ”
Now I ask, do you seriously believe that sort of tripe?
Nonsense! Of course you don’t! Or do you? Or do we all?
I’m not building a case against Eric Carmen, nor am I attacking rock lyricists. Af
ter all, wasn’t it jazz pianist Erroll Gamer who wrote those immortal lines: “ Look at m e/I’m as helpless as a kitten up a t r e e ...” ? Really? A grown man as helpless as a kitten? If we really believe in the romantic love myth, I sup
pose anything is possible.
That’s another curious thing about this romantic love myth of ours; it seems we are always linking it with death and our willingness to die for (or with) our lover. You’ve only to look down the long file of our most popular movies to see it. Or look at our top box office film of the moment, A Star Is Bom, where the lovers are parted only by death.
If you’ve guessed by now that none of this is very new, you’re right. It is just another Symptom Of The Seventies because it goes back at least as far as the legends of King A rthur and the story of Tristan and Isolde. From there you have a long line through Mallory, Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Tennyson. When you reach the twentieth century, the roman
tic love myth shows no sign of waning; in fact it has gained momentum through F. Scott F i t z g e r a l d , E r n e s t Hemingway, right up to Erich Segal, whose successful Love Story is surely proof that the myth is doing quite well, obvi
ously no worse for the wear.
But today the main suppor
ter of the myth is not the literary field; it is the elec
tronic entertainment media, television, the movies . and our American Top 40 AM- radio music.
It’s Bruce Springsteen (the future of rock and roll, as writer-producer Jon Landau is fond of reminding us) who sings to his girl “ I want to know love is real,” telling her in the next verse, “ I want to
•lie with you Wendy, on the street tonight in an ever
lasting kiss. . . ”
And it isn’t just the rockers since sweet Joni Mitchell turns out lines like “Help me/I think I ’m falling in love again/When I get that crazy feeling, I know/I’m in trouble a g a in ...”
Another thing: do you notice how people are always
‘falling’ in love? Like it’s a big hole in the ground or a trap And sometimes they even 'fall head over heels.’
You’d think it might be painful.
Don’t think I'm taking the outsider position of a jaded cynic. I’m as much a child of my society as the next guy.
And I ’m not condemning romantic love any more than I’d condemn the Tooth Fairy or the E aster Bunny. Our myths are some of the most beautiful elem ents in our society and life would be horribly dull without them.
What should be condemned is the situation of believing in our myths more firmly than we believe in our realities.
And it is only a step further to suggest that our belief in the romantic love myth is a great
unstabilizing force in our society. It simply doesn’t hold up in real life and unless relationships m ature into something a little closer to reality, the result is chaos.
Are those harmless little pop tunes on the radio really harmless or isn't there just the remote possibility that we find ourselves believing in them and even relying on them? Af
ter all, what happens to Springsteen when he discovers that his “ ev er
lasting kiss" doesn’t last forever and that sooner or later, somebody has to do the dishes and take out the gar
bage. What happens to John Denver when he awakes, discovers that he hasn’t died in his lover's arms and, in fact, has to go to work again?
More to the point, what hap
pens to John Q. Radio- Listener upon discovering that all those songwriters were spreading it on pretty thick?
In his book, The American Sexual Tragedy, psychologist Vlbert Ellis listed what he considered to be 13 notable c h a r a c te r is tic s (w arn in g signs?) of rom antic love.
Among them are such familiar beliefs as: 1) roman
ce love takes you totally unaware, at first sight, 2) once you fall in love, your love is deathless; 3) everyone should try to fall in love; 4) love always leads to happiness
*i»en it is returned; 5) when it isn’t returned it causes total agony; 6) it is irrational and lovers always do crazy sorts of things; 7) it is worth any amount of sacrifice, the more die better; 8) it is always mce-and-forever; 9) without t, life is meaningless; 10) peo-
>le will do almost anything for t; 11) it gives new meaning to iex ; 12) a true lover is entirely subservient to his loved one;
and 13) there can be only one true love.
If any or all of Ellis' list sounds familiar, it should. We hear it, see it and breath it nearly every day of our lives.
In a society where romantic love is touted as a prerequisite to happiness, it would be
amazing if our modem music didn’t reinforce those beliefs
Is it any wonder that, in view of this kind of social background, we can listen and believe John Denver when he sings, “Come let me love you.
let me give my life to you/Let me drown in your laughter, let me die in your arms/Let me lay down beside you. let me always be with you/Come let me love you, come love me again
Either the love he’s ‘fallen’ in to matures and grows or else, going back to Ellis’ list, he decides that something must be dreadfully wrong, that this isn’t really love and that true love must be out there just over the next hill—or the next love song
Mary MacGregor makes a perhaps unconscious point in her hit song “Torn Between Two Lovers,’’ especially if one of her lovers is reality and the other is that grand mystique that has surrounded her—and the rest of us—almost since birth. Faced with disillusion
ment, we choose to become iisillusioned with our lovers ather than our myth, con- idering that for most of us the nyth has been around far onger than any of our lovers.
Am I recommending that we tart right now and banish omance from our lifes? Cer- ainly not! It would be not only oolish but more than likely, mpossible. But more effort hould be made to keep a I is ta nee-an d some perspec ive— between romantic love ind mature love. And don’t lesitate to raise a skeptical yebrow the next time the Carpenters try to tell you
•therwise.
(If any or all of this sparks in interest to learn more about the romantic love myth, I strongly recommend an IUPUI course, R223, The Con
temporary Interpretations of Love. It’s top notch work (I rate it in my Top Two List of college courses) and it will be taught next fall on Thursday evenings by Dr. Rowland A.
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