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Page 2 The Nebraskan Friday, Oct. 28, 1960 The By Dick Masters The SATYR would bear another banner today. The never-ending contest be tween the forces of the underworld and the good guys must be waged in an other issue. So bear with me for a few more scintil lating column inches vwhile I bare my breast in anguish and tear my hair in despair. Lethargic little sheep, a crisis has come upon us. Homecoming loses its gaie ty in the face of mob ter iorism. Children, a lion is lose in the Union. He threatens to' disturb our apathetic contentment He is a fanatical madman who seeks overthrow and open rebellion. Dare we allow such a person to remain in gra ciously among us? Hear me out for I would relate to you this war criminal's nefarious record in Student Council meetings. This up start dared to call the Stu dent Council into executive session. Mind you, be closed the doors upon the voice ef the people, (mainly Herb Probaseo). Rumor has it that this sophomoron banged his shoes upon the table and' screamed ota scenetks at the delegates around the hallowed table. After defaming the long and glorious tradition of our representatives, he p r o ceeded with much audacity and presumption to voice positive proposals (27 in all). Bear it in mind that these proposals would entail work and investiga tion by sp&rial committees of that solemn, noble group. No doubt you have all read the story in last Fri day's publication. Many of you possibly wailed to get your copy of the Rag before migrating. In case you might have missed it through serious illness, epi leptic seizure, or extreme headache resulting from confinement by your nurse and mine, Ruth, allow me to vent a few of these rabble-rousing ideas. First to come to the SATYR's attention was the issue women's hours. Obviously this fiend is at tempting to undermine vic toria culture and supplant it with an atmosphere which would promote riot ous living and make for large scale orgies. Next, the demogogue asked the Council to inves tigate the drinking prob lem. Naturally this .will be discarded since any self respecting council member knows that there is only one problem at Nebraska PARKING. Until this Inside By Phil Boroff k THE DARK AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS, a Warner Brothers picture starring Robert Preston, Dorothy McGuire, Eve Ar den, Angela Lansbury and Shirley Knight . William Inge is con sidered one of the most competent of America's current playwrights. Three previous I l g e plays ''Come Back, Little Sheba, "Picnic," and "Bus Stop" have been successfully transferred to the screen. Now "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs,'" one of the recent Inge plays, receives an understanding screen adaptation. Story concerns the con flicts involving the Floods, an Oklahoma family in the 192(Ts. Rubin Flood, the father, is the Ticlim of technological unem p 1 y jment No one seems to want harness gear any more. Cora Flood, the mother, Is tired of "penny pinching." As a results their marriage is not a aolid union. Mavis Pruitt is Rubin's friend, wrongly referred to' as "the other woman, Lot tie, the wife's sister, has prejudices against almost everything, and does not have the love of her hus band. Sonny Flood, the young son, has little secur ity; he is afraid of -"The Dark at the Top of the Stairs. But the most interesting and poignant conflict cen ters around Reenie Flood, the teenage daughter. She is reserved and shy, afraid of the emotions she would have if, she knew love. Then she finds love with Sammy Golden, a cadet at a nearby academy and the neglected, exiled son of a , Daily JVebraskan Member Associated OUejriate Trent, International Preaa Rrpranentatlre: National Advertising ferric. Incorporated I"uUiii.id at: Zoom 20, Student Union, iiuculo, Kebnufta, Satyr horrendous impediment is removed no other problem bears looking into. (Note: I see that the fel low attempted to worm his way back into the graces of the group by proposing one-way streets. It is ap parent that this move was made to appease those who recognize the real prob lem PARKING.) The only reason that this incitor-to-riot wanted an in vestigation of the five-point system was purely selfish. 'It was secretly disclosed to me in a dream that the five point system would mean that his over-all would now be relative to his intelligence. This is to say that his old average would now be a shiny new 5 in stead of an unlucky 87. How about that? I could go on with this foolishness but that is not my purpose. Hang him from the yardarm, kiddies. Are you going to sit back and allow this Kuklin fel low to admit that student government can be effec tive? Are you going to al low him to criticize your elected representa tives? Are you going to al low him to upset a long tradition of a sit-on-hands policy? Are you going to allow him to state that there is any other problem besides PARKING? In order to maintain the University as we know it, and in order to remain casual, we cannot and must not allow this revolution monger to run loose with these idiotic proposals. We have no recourse but to take immediate action and silence him. These are the times that try and our happy state of humdrum and doldrum is endangered by (his mad dog. Kiddies, the Old SATYR may be forced to close shop. It looks like the cru sade is rapidly drawing to an end. With no group to stick little barbs in, there will be nothing to write about. Here's hoping that Pi Xi and Red Dot organize again so that this enter prising columnist will have something to crusade against Itll be nice to see it done with the sweat was getting a bit deep anyway. Wonder who will have those extra t a c k 1 i n g-assign-ments? Little Jack Hoemer sat in. the corner Defending executive ses sion He stuck in bis foot and pulled out a statement And left us wondering at his discretion. View movie star. But this first love is short-lived. Sam my, since be is Jewish, is asked to leave a party at a restricted Country Club where he has taken Reenie. This immediate outburst of prejudice activates every thing that had previously hurt him. After taking Reenie home, Sammy self initiates a car wreck that causes his death the next jnorning. The film is hindered mainly by a slow, talky be ginning and by the ineffec tiveness of two perform ances. Eve Arden, Lottie, still seems to be Our Miss Brooks' trying to he some one else. Robert Preston, as Rubin Flood, has not lost all the mannerisms, both vocally and physically, of his highly successful inter pretation of Harold HiE in "The Music Man." At any moment you stpect him to go into a chorus of 'Sev-enty-Six Trombones. However, Omahan Doro thy McGuire is believable as Cora Flood and Angela Lansbury does a fine job as Mavis PrewitL Frank Overton, featured perform er as Lottie's husband, or the brother-in-law, is also effective. N e wumtfi Snirly Knight, as Reenie., and Lee Kinsolvisg, as Sammy, both are standout, , eyen when competing with the more experienced per formers. They both appear to be young performers with suc cessful careers ahead of them. The f I ! m is capably di rected by Delbert Mann, who won a directing Aca demy Award in 1855 for "'Marty, his first motion picture. Technically, the film is accomplished Not able ar?. the fine music score and the costumes. Strictly By Sam Jensen Today, I'd like to talk about the religious issue or the irreligious issue. I speak for myself and no one else. In the past few weeks, a que stion has formed in my mind and in the minds of other A m e r i- cans. It is this: "Are the Kennedy forces keeping this religious issue alive in a way which they believe will win them, both Catho lic and Protestant votes?" A practical and experi eiced political observer noted the other day that no wise politician brings up an issue which he be lieves will hurt him and vet few people who have watched television in the past weeks have missed seeing a rebroadcast of Kennedy's appearance be fore a group of Texas min isters. Is this showing being used to consolidate the Catholic vote and also as a massive "Bigotry in Re verse" scheme, the purpose of which is to imply that any vote against Kennedy is a vote for bigotry? And make no mistake about it The Republican Party organizations are not distributing hate litera ture. In the third television debate. Vice President Nix on said: I repudiate anyone who ases the religions issne. I will not tolerate it I have ordered all of my people to have nothing to da with it Rep. William E. Miller, f Catholic, chairman of the GOP Congressional Cam paign Committee, said re cently, "I believe that the intelligence and patriotism of Catholic voters is insult-, ed and damaged by asser tions that they are gullible enough to vote for a candi date for high office merely because he is a fellow Cath olic." I hope this is true and I think it is, but the efforts continue of backers of Sen ator Kennedy to keep the religions issue alive. PersonaDy, I d not be lieve that Sen. Kennedy would in any way be in fluenced by his church, if elected, to act in any w ay contrary to what be be lieved to be the best in terests of all Americans. The Constitution provides b religious test for hold ing office, in fact, such a test is prohibited. Stilt in Detroit recently, the UAW distributed a pamphlet saying the issue is not the men, Nixon or Kennedy, but "liberty or bigotry. COPE, the political arm of the AFL-CIO, is distrib uting this pamphlet, a pic ture of which appeared re cently in U.S. News & World Report Last weekend, another similar pamphlet was is sued from Kennedy-Johnson headquarters in Wash ington published by Labor's Committee for Kennedy Jofanson. The title of the pamphlet is "Don't Let the GOP-lins get you' and the title appears above a Ku Klux Klan figure and a witch frightening a voter. Sen. Thruston Morten, GOP National Chairmaa. aid, "There is developing a pattern ef Democratic mear literature in the clos ing days of the campaign on the bigotry in reverse theme. Representative M S J I e r says the program may be dated back, to 1556 when Kennedy's staff circulated 5 memorandum which stat ed that with Kennedy m ithe ficket, the Democrats could recover the Catholic ute and the big Northern states. This same sheet was l-irculated iin 1900. McGregor Burns, Ken nedy friendly biographer, cat written that Kennedy's strategy to -win in 1360 is based on an appeal to a supposed Catholic vote in the big cities. T ii e Democratic chair man of New York has re cently reported on a poll which stated that the key lo New York State is the -"Catholic vote. Obviously, this poll precedes a cam paign for "Catholic" vote? in New York. Wly else tf'ould it be taken or the results announced? US. News k World Re port tells of this reverse Democratic spokesman wh J Partisan, explains the approach to GOP Catholics this way: "0 n r precinct workers go in and talk . about the candidates for Governor and Senator. Finally they raise the question, "Do yon think they are going to keep Kennedy from being Presi dent Just because he is a Catholic? It gets a good re sponse. We are winning lots of new votes."' In a' now famous article about Bob Kennedy, Time reports: "Hard boiled Kennedyites who run a continual poll on the Catholic vote, know that Jack's confrontation by the Houston Protestant ministers helped them with N i x o n-minded Northern Catholics and know that a' fall-off of interest in reli gion will hurt them in the same area. Bobby plans to show a film of Jack' Ken nedy's session with the Houston clergy in every state." The showing of his film' Inflames the religious issue. It does not quiet it If the film is being shown in order to keep the religious issue alive, then aB. the Senator's public statements deploring reli g i o o s considerations (I agree with most of his pub lic statements in this area,) are open to serious ques tion. . Isn't the real religious question of the campaign the choice of a man who is qualified to I e a d Western Civilization in its fight against an atheistic Com munism which would wipe out an religions? 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