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volume 65, number 7
thursday, September 22, 1977
Exile discusses Russian art
Russian poet Constantine Kuzminsky chats with Lovett members
Tuesday afternoon. —wiley sanders
by Matt Muller
"There is officially no
censorship in Russia,"
commented Russian poet
Constantine Kuzminsky in a
lecture Tuesday, "but believe
me it is there."
Not a political dissident,
Kuzminsky complained about
the government's policy of
approving art known as
"Soviet Realism" and prohib-
iting everything else, "Lenin
said that as everyone is either
with us or against us: So, the
bureaucrats think that if a
work of art doesn't glorify
Soviet life, then, it must be
against Communism," said
Kuzminsky.
Slides of Russian art that
cannot be displayed in Russia
were shown by the Russian
poet. Kuzminsky pointed out
that Russian art has been
interrupted by the Soviet
campaign against non-Soviet
Realism, resulting in Russian
avant-garde art's being
several years behind the rest
of the world. One painting
showed a road running off a
cliff into a bank of clouds.
"This work could never be
displayed," said Kuzminsky.
"Look at the title: Road to
Nowhere. The KGB would
ask, 'but do not all roads lead
to Communism?' They would
call this a subversive work of
art."
After the slide show
Kuzminsky was joined by
Austin poet Grady Hillman,
who has been working with
Kuzminsky in translating his
work into English. Kuzminsky
and Hillman read sample
works of several poets of the
Leningrad school, many of
whom have never been
published in the Soviet
Eleven seek five posts in Oct 4 elections
Eleven candidates filed for
the five open positions being
filled in the October 4 special
election. However, the races
for Student Association
internal affairs vice-president
and sophomore honor council
representative were the only
ones to draw more than one
candidate.
Vying for the vice president
post are Barry L. Jones,
Thresher sports editor; Chris
Bounds; and Kevin McKenna,
SA senator from Sid Rich-
ardson. The position became
vacant last week with the
resignation of Marian Barber.
In a race originally
scheduled for Sept. 27, five will
be hoping to become one of the
two sophomore represen-
tatives to the honor council: J.
Brent Wilkey, Sara Hill,
Geoffrey B. Walne, David J.
Time columnist to speak
Hugh Sidey, chief of the
Washington Bureau of Time
magazine, will open the 1977-
78 President's Lectures at Rice
at 8pm Tuesday, September
27, in the Chemistry Lecture
Hall.
Dr. Franz R. Brotzen,
professor of materials science
and chairman of the
University's Committee on
Public Lectures, said Sidey
will talk on "The Nature of
Leadership." "Hugh Sidey is a
fourth-generation journalist,"
Brotzen said. "His appearance
on the Rice campus should
make for a stimulating and
thought-provoking evening."
In 1960, Sidey traveled with
presidential candidate John F.
Kennedy on his campaign
trail and was one of the
reporters in Dallas with the
presidential party three years
later when President Kennedy
was assassinated. During the
summer of 1963 his book John
F. Kennedy, President: A
Reporter's Inside Story
was published and quickly
made the best seller lists. After
the assassination the book
was re-issued and became a
Literary Guild alternate
selection. It was serialized in
Australia, Great Britain,
France, Italy, Japan, Sweden,
and Finland.
Beginning in April, 1966,
Sidey's column, "The
Presidency," appeared in
Life. Upon the demise of that
magazine, Sidey returned to
Time, where he had been
Washington correspondent
since 1969. In his column
Sidey has reported on the
Johnson, Nixon, and Ford
administrations. He has
accompanied the three
presidents on trips abroad,
traveling to the People's
Republic of China and the
USSR with former President
Nixon and to Japan with
President Ford.
His second book, A Very
Personal Presidency:
Lyndon B. Johnson in the
White House, was published
in July, 1968. Sidey is also the
author of two new books,
Portrait of a President, a
photographic study with text
about Gerald Ford, and These
United States.
Wolk and Cindy McCabe.
Only members of the class of
'80 will participate in this poll.
A1 Molson is the unopposed
candidate for Rice Program
Council vice-president, while
Carmen Eggleston was the
only person to file for SA
secretary-treasurer. Eggleston
was appointed to fill the post
temporarily when Terri Jones
resigned last week, so that
there will be some continuity
in the office. The Campanile
is another story. The editor's
job has been vacant since Tom
Brown quit during the first
week of class. Helen Toombs,
the only candidate, is editor-
apparent, but cannot officially
assume duties until after the
elections.
Once again the Thresher
offers candidates an oppor-
tunity to submit a campaign
statementin the Sept. 29 issue.
Statements must be double-
spaced typewritten on a
sixty-character line and not
exceed two pages in length.
Deadline is Monday,
September 26 at 5 pm.
Submissions not in the
Thresher office before that
time will not be printed.
Display advertising at
reduced student rates is also
available. Contact Becky
Bonar at the SA office before 5
pm Monday.
Polling spaces will be open
in all the colleges as well as a
central polling place in the
RMC. Regular SA election
rules will govern the conduct
of this election and campaign
spending limit is $25 with no
overdrafts allowed.
Union. The work ranged from
the McKuenesque to the
dramatic, with a few bawdy
poems tossed in for good
measure. Kuzminsky had
special praise for poet Joseph
Brodsky, who is now living in
the United States. "I think he
is the greatest living Russian
poet," said Kuzminsky, who
then recited a poem that he
said "made a very strong
impression on me the first time
I heard it" titled In a Jewish
Graveyard.
Kuzminsky played several
tape recordings of other
Russian poets reading their
own 'tftorks. Most of the tapes,
he said, were made at the
farewell readings his friends
organized for him before he
left Leningrad for the West.
The program concluded with
Kuzminsky and Hillman
reading some of Kuzminsky's
own work. The poems were in a
mixture of styles, for after
leaving Russia, Kuzminsky
has not written any poems in
Russian. Instead he "fell in
love with very many
languages," and has written
in a variety of them, such as an
Indonesian dialect and a
Southwest African dialect
mentioned in Henry Stanley's
diary. "I don't know what the
hell they mean, but they sound
beautiful."
Philosopher to
discuss mysticism
Ileana Marculescu, a
Rumanian-born specialist on
philosophy and religion, will
open the 1977-78 series of Rice
University's annual Inter-
faith Chapel Service Lectures
with a presentation on
mysticism at 7:30pm tonight
in the Memorial Chapel.
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Gnomes repair damage sustained to Allen Center entrance gate in accident two weeks ago.
—wiley sanders
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