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THE MEGAPHONE
Friday, February 7, 1964
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Page Two
Senate Report
By LAMAR HANKINS
The Senate meeting held Febru-
ary 4 was marked by tin* absence of
several senators. Sophomore sena-
tors Kirk Robinson and John Walk-
er, and Freshman senator Benny
Clendenin and Senior Senator David
Bauguess were absent. Sophomore
senator Kathi Rizer was not able to
Stay for the entire meeting.
begin the debate Tuesday night
causing a delay in business proceed*-
ihgs.
Karen Busby moved that tlie Sen-
ate help the Union directorate spon-
sor the Ugliest Man On Campus (U
MOO election this semester. The
motion carried. The election of UM
OC will probably be held in conjunc-
tion with an all-school function spon-
sor t*d by the directorate.
Junior senator Key Stevens an-
nounced that Annabelle Battle, Wil-
ton Woods, John Brockman, and she
Will attend the C.C.U.N. meeting in
There was discussion on election
procedure for the vacated Junior
senator position which' was hdld by
Bob Powell. A motion, made by
Norman, Oklahoma 1 ebruary 13, j £eajor senator Tommy Loftin, pass
14, and 15. This delegation from
Southwestern will represent Chile,
Kfies Battle’s home country.
Fred Kandeler, on behalf of the
Union directorate, tltanked tlie Sen-
ile for its financial assistance in
helping the directorate secure poet-
author-lecturer-professor John Ciar-
di for a speaking engagement.
Wilton Woods, chairman of the
constitution committee, submitted
the first four articles of the pro-
posed new constitution. Debate on
the entire constitution will take
place in the near future; however,
some senators and visitors tried to
ed. The motion asked that nomina-
tions be taken at the Tuesday meet-
ing for the Senate nominee, with'ad-
ditional nominations coming from
the Junior class at another time.
Larry Grubbs was chosen as the
9enate nominee.
Senator Tommy Loftin at minced
that tryouts for the musical, ’’that
Was That School That Was”, will
be held Saturday and Sunday, Feb-
ruary 8 and 9, 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.
The Union directorate is sponsoring
this ‘‘spoof on campus life.” Regis-,
tration for tryouts should be made
in Mrs. Campbell’s office.
Dim View Of Hootenanny Phase
by KNOX TYSON
The great hootenancy craze seems
to- be past, or at least near, its
I>eak appeal to the American col-
lege population. We may be sure
that small pockets of hootenaney
buffs will still be around for the
next few years, much like the lock
’n roll combo groups that are still
around and date back as far as the
middle of the last decade.
These groups of hootenaneyors
have' a steadfast purpose in their
life, this in itself puts them a step
above the R & R (that’s rock 'n roll)
groups. That puroo9e is to write,
discover and' preserve the music
that they claim our forefathers sang
as they gleefully carved out this
fair continent.
tic of the earlier groups was a fast tliat explains the history of the
er, more rock 'n rollish rhythm, song — this makes it authentic.
They make it seem like it was a
necessity to sing in order to cross
the mighty West. What does it real-
ly matter if the pioneers never saw
any musical instrument except a
harmonica or, until recently, a ban-
jo never plinked out any other tune
except Dixieland?
There seems to be two major
dates in the entire history of hoot-
enaney, 1958 and 1962. 1958 saw the
popularity of the greaGgranddaddy
of hootenaney, the “Trio” (that’s
the Kingston Trio). The characteris-
"The Victors" — Unrealistic
THE VICTORS was written, pro- trix, a continuity, for the story; that
duced and directed by Carl Fore-
rtvan. VICTORS is the first film
Fbrman has directed; he has
been a screen writer (e.g., GUNS
OF NAVARONE) for some years.
they would! give a sense of verisim-
ilitude to it; and further, that they
would be a comment on Hie main
action.
There is however no sense' of any
The film follows a group of Amer- 1 actuality because (a) the cast has
lean soldiers from the time of the
Invasion of Sicily through the fight-
ing in France; a po^tNwar Berlin
dgrffeode (involving Albert Finney)
Cbmpdetes the film. The form of the
film is a cinematic version of the
form of John Dos Passos’ U. S. A.
trilogy: bits of story are connected
|jy newsreel items.
■ ft must have been intended that
fhe read' events would supply a ma-
too obviously been assembled for its
international glamour (Ameri-
can movie star Eli WaHach has
some by-play with foreign movie
star Jeanne Moreau; similar pair-
ings include George Peppard and
Melina Mercouri; Vince Edwards
and Rosanna Scbiaffino; George
ilamoito* and Homy Schneider, amd
ELke Sommerl.
Scenes have been added!, you feel,
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only as vehicles for this star or
that; and (b) the technical gap be-
tween newsreel reality and big stu-
dio reality is too wide for you to
make any leap of transference. So
much for reality.
The film is about the brutalizing
effect of war; and to this end, a
series of incidents are strung to-
gether: complete little stories each
repetitively showing, with slight dif-
ferences, the disintegration of per-
sons touched by war.
Each little story is in the ironic
mode with a heavily pointed empha-
sis-: American combat soldiers kill
a dog for the sport of it; a French
officer refuses a German surrender
offer in order to be able to kill the
wouldnbe surrenderee; an Ameri-
can soldier is executed by ah Amer-
ican firing squad on Christmas Day.
Each little story gives a complete
find reundied touch of, what we shall
say, satisfying, even glamourous,
brutality to the whole business.
It strikes us that irony, in fact the
whole design of the film, is precise-
ly the wrong way to convey the cu-
mulative and more or less unevent-
ful demoralization of war; it is too
flashy, too stagy, it is too much of
a device. In fact it’s really THE
LONGEST DAY; only turned inside
cut.
though they avoided this accusation
like the plague.
The “Trio” set the pace for many
of the early groups, (they were all
male and usually not larger than
four). The college craze was now
growing. But everyeone had to wait
until the big year, 1962. This was
the year that saw, among other
world problems, the death of the
twist. Something was needed in the
popular record field to keep sales
up, the answer — hootenaney.
What could be more natural? The
public had increasingly enjoyed id-
entification with the hardy, lusty
and uncomplicated early American
life and culture. Almost as impor-
tant an identification was with Olde
England with' all it’s burnished brass
merry people and the gallant bal-
lads that sound as if one could) still
hear them if he visited Sherwood
Forest or inns and pubs somewhere
near Londontown.
The basic character of post 1962
hootenaneys seemed to be mixed
groups of rather sallow looking in-
dividuals, ranging in size from one
person to groups as large as a doz-
en. There was less emphasis on the
clean-cut college look and more on
the rejected intellectual look. What
was the same in both pre artd post
1962 hootenaney was the monoton-
ous, choppy introduction to each
song.
Of course, the pie-1962 introduc-
tion vainly attempted a bit of hu-
mor before each song; but, in ad-
dition to this, the post-1962 groups
I Guitar chords are gently stummed'
! during the introduction. Example:
i “This-songiis-a-very-old - song - that
-our-fore-fathers-sang (read “should
have sung”)— as - they - crossed-
the - great - plains - in - search -of-
gold.” (louder guitar chord and ap-
jplause that the performer does not
i acknowledge); he continues, “the •
words - and - music - 4were - adapted ‘
- only - a - few - short - years-ago.’*
The performer always looks down,
probably marveling at his beard, the,
j beginning chords end, the applause
ends, then he mournfully looks into
I a spotlight and sings his song ol
| social protest. These groups follow
the success formula of P P M (that’s
Peter, Paul and Mary).
But there is a more sophisticated,
\ intellectual reaction against P P
M, claiming that PPM are too com-
mercialized, This faction has al-
ways liked J B ( that’s Joan Baez.)'
•It is a major badge of distinction
among all hootenaneyers to claim
to have liked folk music before 1958. >
Any predictions into the next col-
lege craze? Investing in a hooten-
aney group now would be much like
investing in a twist group in late -
1962. Those who were born too late ^
and have hopes of forming their
very own hootenaney group may be
just that, bom too late.
contains a sad looking performer ‘ from, of all places, England.
They would do better by joining
one of those groups that just go
from one craze to the next, they
are the most successful. Perhaps
we will see a return to. R & R as
signified by the Beatles, a group
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At the end of the film. Hamilton .is
involved in a senseless knife fight
with a Russian; and we should then
feel, not just the irony that the ob-
viously ironic title is meant to con-
vey, but we should feel that this
man Hamilton has changed; that
four years of war—have changed
him, from the kind of shy, quiet and
thoughtful man he once was.
And so in the last analysis, the
whole thing is a little hokey. And in
a funny, and kind of reverse way, it
glamourizes war. But the intentions
appear to have been good. So hooray
for good intentions but if it’s reality
or truth you want, read Playboy.
(Film-Making and Moviegoing,
New York)
&JU. AAUP
Slates Officers
For This Year
The 1964 slate of officers for the
Southwestern University Chapter of
American Association of University
Professors includes Dr. Norman
Speihnaim, president; Dr. Roy E.
Teete, vice-president; and Miss
Mary Elizabeth Fox, re-elected sec-
retory-treasurer.
SpeHmann is’ associate professor
of religion and philosophy; Teele is
professor and head of the depart-
ment of English; and Miss Fox is
r
the University's Director of Publi-
city.
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Included in the three-volume work
THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN
METHODISM, going on sale in Ap-
ril at the General Conference of the
Methodist Church, will be two chap-
ters written by Dr. Norman Spell-
mann, Associate Professor of Reli-
gion and Philosophy at Southwest-
ern University.
This work is the product of eight
years of planning and the combined
efforts of 44 outstanding church his-
torians. This is the first such his-
tory to appear in more than 60
years. It is published by Abingdon
Press and) edited by Emory Buicke.
| Spellmann’s two chapters are en-
titled “The .Formation of The Meth-
odist Episcopal Church” and “The
bivision in 1844.”
' The history stems from action tak-
en by the 1956 General Conference
which recognized that “there is not
in print a definite and adequate His-
tory of American Methodism and no
such work has been written for
many decades.”
Serving on the editorial board as
a representative from the Council of
Bishops is Bishop William G. Mar-
tin, resident bishop of the Dallas-
Fort Worth Area of the Methodist
Church and1 Hie senior episcopal b£-«
fieer in the church. He is a mem-
ber of the Board of Trustees of
Southwestern University.
4 Spellmann, a graduate of South-
western University with the Bache-
lor of Arts degree, Southern Metho-
dist University with the Bachelor of
Divinity degree, and Yale Univer-
sity with the Ph.D. degree, join-
ed the Southwestern faculty in 1960.
He formerly taught at Southern
Methodist University.
A third Texan who participated in
the writing and editing of the three-
volume work is Dr. W. Richey Hogg,
professor of World Christianity, Per-
kins School of Theology, Southern
Methods* University. He is the au-
thor of 1he chapter entitled “The
Mission of American Methodism."
A member of the editorial board,
named by the Council of. Basopst, he
named by the Council of Bishops, he
is also author of severat book*,
He is a member of the Association
of Methodist Historical Societies and *
the Methodist Publishing House.
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