Tuesday, July 23, 1963
Summer Nebraskan
Page Three
Library Staff Prepares
HUMANITIES
READING ROOM
Mehta, Ved, Face to Face,
Walking the Indian Streets,
Fly and the Fly-Bottle. Edu
cated at Pomona College,
Harvard, and Oxford, this na
tive of India, in his late twen
ties, has turned from autobi
ography to a study of British
intellectual life since World
War II. Mehta's first book,
Face to Face, gives the read
er insight into the United
States as seen by a percep
tive analyst Walking the In
dian Streets is an entertain
ing, beautifully .written ac
count of the author's summer
in India after ten years in the
eWst Mehta describes the
problems facing himself and
his homeland, both caught be
tween their Eastern heritage
and Western influence. In his
most recent book, Fly and the
Williams Is
'Broadway
(Continued from page 1)
L. Williams' new comedy, "A
Sword For Hippolytus."
Never before produced, the
play was described by the
director m "a brilliant and
fanciful comedy, gay and sar
donic by tarns." Of the au
thor, he said, "George Wil
liams is one of the most
promising among today's
younger playwrights." ,
The director Dr. Joseph
Baldwin, professor of Speech
and Dramatic Art at the Uni
versity of Nebraska, author
of plays published by Samuel
French, Inc., New York, and
the Dramatic Publishing Co.,
Chicago; winner of national
playwriging contests spon
sored by the Johns Hopkins
University and by the Bir
mingham, Alabama, Festival
of Arts.
The playwright George L.
Williams, not yet a "Broad
way" name, but close. Two
of his one-act plays have been
produced off-Broadway in the
Seven Arts Theatre of New
York. The titles were
"Snugs" and "The Cave."
Perhaps a more significant
success was the selection of
his play "Smorling Gro" as
the . best play In- a contest
sponsored by the American
Playwrights' Theatre and pro
duced professionally in Holly
wood in I960.
Williams' first published
play, "Snipe Hunt," will ap
pear this autumn in the mag
azine First Stage.
The titles of his plays indi
cate something of Williams'!
fanciful wit, Baldwin points
out, and the same quality is
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Fly -Bottle, Mehta conducts
two parallel quests. The first
is to find out what is going on
inside the heads of British
philosophers, s u c h as Bert-
rand Russell and Richard
Hare, and to find out what
kind of people, in human
terms, they are. The second
quest is to do the same thing
about present-day Briitsh his
torians such as H. R. Trevor-
Roper, E. H. Carr. and Arn
old Toynbee. Mehta conducts
his study of British historians
in terms of the insoluble prob
lem of the nature of history.
These three books indicate
the stature of one of the New
Yorker's most imposing staff
members.
Gilbert, Felix, TO THE
FAREWELL ADDRESS. Pro
fessor of history at Bryn
Mawr College. Felix Gilbert
discusses the events and
Not Yet
- But Close
found in "Sword for Hippoly
tus," which makes a sophisti
cated comedy out of the trag
ic legend of Phaedra and
Hippolytus which furnished
material for the best of clas
sic and enoclassio writers of
tragedy.
Williams maintains and
even heightens the legendary
quality of the story, and cre
ates a delightful fantasy in
which love, not death, tri
umphs. Born in West Virginia, Wil
liams now teaches English
and Speech at Central Con
necticut State College in New
Britain, Connecticut.
His first play, "In These
Few Hours," was produced
by the local theatre group of
Man, West Virginia, in 1940.
After a year's study of Dra
ma in Cincinnati, he became
an infantryman, served with
the 70th and 86th Divisions in
Europe and the Phillipines.
While he was on desert ma
neuvers in Death Valley, Cal
ifornia, Army Special Serv
ices produced his musical re
vue "Bugle in the Dark."
He joined the student play
wrights' group at the State
University of Iowa, where he
first met the director now
staging his latest play, who
was also a student in the
same group. Williams' play
"Threshold of Pain" was pro
duced at Iowa in 1948, and
given credit as a creative the-;
sis.
Besides authoring musicals,
long plays, and one-acts, Wil
liams has also ventured into
fiction. Two of his short stor
ies, "The Cave," and "The
Mountain," were published in
The Transylvanian in 1953.
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ideas which shaped the for
eign policy of the early
United States and led to Pres
ident Washington's Farewell
Address. This work places
Washington's political testa
ment in its original context,
which differs greatly from
that assigned by many Twentieth-
Century isolationists.
"Because the Farewell Ad
dress comprises various as
pects of American political
thinking," writes Dr. Gilbert,
"it reaches beyond any period
limited in time and reveals
the basic issue of the Ameri
can attitude toward foreign
policy: the tension between
Idealism and Realism."
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
Books in Other Libraries
Chambers, Helen G. Cloth
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ure, Fabrics. Agriculture Li
brary. "An introductory text,
but its comprehensive cover
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tions, up-to-date-ness, gloss
aries, illustrations, and bibli
ography enhance its interest."
Denny, Grace, Fabrics. Ag
riculture Library. "Basically
an illustrated dictionary with
terms clearly and fully de
fined, plus identification tests
for fibers and fabrics, mer
chandise complaints, legisla
tion, test equipment, trade
names, and references."
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(and everything in it) and its
two-way relationship with
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readers, ag
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Econ. Council
A blue-ribbon group of Ne
braska leaders gave an
enthusiastic go-ahead last
Wednesday to the formation
of a State Council on Econ
omic Education, aimed at
ridding the slate of its "ap
palling economic illiteracy."
Meeting at the University
of Nebraska, 76 Nebraskans
elected Dean Charles S. Mill
er of the College of Business
Administration as temporary
chairman of a steering com
mittee. The committee, whose
members will be named later
this month, was given the re
sponsibility of outlining by
laws and selecting a slat of
officers. j
The Council is expected to
work actively with the Uni-i
versity's newly reorganized
Bureau of Business Research
in assisting educators in pre-i
paring teachers and in
stituting courses on econ-:
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secondary schools.
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Pride in Nebraskans for
thrir part in Peace Corps
activities was acknowledged
Thursday when R. Sargent
Shriver, national, director,
spoke before University
luncheon and convocation au
diences. "Eight Nebraska University
graduates are now abroad
carrvine on our work as part
of a statewide contingent of
46," Shriver said. "With 15
more in training at the pres
ent time, this is a healthy
sign of your state s interest
in the world at large."
Sixtv-four American uni
versities, from Hawaii to
Puerto Rico, are enrolled in
the Corps plan, he added,
and with two-t birds of the
world's young people "col
ored, oppressed and hungry,
the Peace Corps will help
put us where we belong in
the midst of the majority of
the world. In this way we
can express and demonstrate
the importance of human dig
nity." Our participation, he
added, gives American the
chance to take part in t h e
biggest idea of our times.
The American dream of
aiding the world's oppressed
has been reflected, Shriver
stated, in the recent develop
ment of similar programs in
15 countries. One, El Salva
dor, is inaugurating its "So
cial Progress Corps," and has
sent volunteers to Mexico City
to work with American Peace
Corps personnel now in
training. When the two groups
return to San Salvador it will
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, By ANN SIIUMAN
The Twin Towers dormato-
ries will be completed by
September in time for rush
week, according to William
C. Harper, director of Uni
versity Services.
Both the Cather and Pound
dorms are almost filled now,
Dean of Women Helen Sny
der said. There may even be
freshmen on one or two of
the floors of the new dorms.
The Women's Residence
Halls will be all freshmen,
she said.
The estimated enrollment
of new students is over 3,
000, she said. The pres
ent enrollment now in mid
J u 1 y is more than that of
mid-August last year.
Because of the large num
ber of students coming to the
University, men will stil! be
housed in the Capitol Hotel
as well as in Selleck and the
new Cather dorm. 1
Boys will probably be in1
Cather for at least two years, !
Harper said, until a new;
men's dorm can be complet-1
ed.
The plan is now, he said, to
Set a contract for a residence
hall for men opposite the Ne
braska Hall parking lot on
17th Street.
September, 1965 is the pres-1
ent plan for the completion!
of that dorm, he said.
The building would have'
approximately the same 900
person capacity that the Twin
Towers has, he said. Howev
er the building will rot be
like the Towers. j
Each room in the Twin
Towers is 10 X 17 feet plus,
closet space. There is roughly i
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be as a unique two-country
demonstration of mutual co
operation. Shriver, brother-in-law to
President John F. Kennedy,
also expressed praise for the
University's American and
Columbian ojint effort to de
velop educational television
facilities in South America.
The plan will see some three
dozen volunteers from the two
countries beginning training
on the Nebraska campus in
August.
"Columbia is paying us a
big compliment by allowing
us to reach 94 per cent of
that country's 16 million peo
ple," Shriver said. "This will
be an ennobling experience
for us; we must place all our
energies into helping the
Corps to thrive and grow."
He indicated growth of the
Corps and its reception in far
places has silenced early op
position heard in this coun
1 ;
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. arner
j 190 sq. ft. of space in t h e
rooms, Harper saia
"Each room, we feel, has
very satisfactory closets," he
said, "with three or four feet
of space."
The rooms also contain
built-in desks and dressers
with shelves and bookcases
above the desks. At either
end of the desks are medi
cine cabinets with mir
rors, he explained.
Each room has two win
dows which can easily be
washed from the inside. The
windows are designed so that
each person will have a win
dow on his side of the room.
Other features of the dorma
tories include a lounge on
each floor and a washing ma
chine and dryer on each
floor.
The central building be
tween Cather and Pound in
cludes the dining area, two
recreation areas, a music
room and a laundry and dry
cleaning room for linen and
laundry to send out.
The dining area will be
used by everyone in both
new dorms and in the Wom
en's Residence Halls. Two
seating areas, two cafeteria
lines and a moving tray line
for used dishes will be in
cluded in the facilities, said
Harper.
Plans for the recreation
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try. "We've been in business
30 months; already we can
point to the particiapation by
nearly 8,000 Corps volunteers
in the idea of supplying
America's diverse talents to
developing nations. Five
thousand volunteers are now
overseas; another 3,000 are
presently in training in this
country. The average age is
about 25, and approximately
one-third are women."
Shriver stressed no Corps
projects are undertakin in a
country unless the host land
requests such aid. If the re
quest is found to match
America's desires for prog
ress in that country, volun
teers are sent, unless a pro
gram for the same ends is
being carried out there al
ready by others.
In Indonesia, he said, we
try to coordinate our work
with that of other American
projects there now, but char
acteristically interests of the
Peace Corps do not end with
economic development. "We
do more," he added. "We are
there to help develop cultural
and social standards as well."
Shriver was asked whether
Corps members undertake
business and administrative
duties in a country. He an
swered that in Liberia. such
diverse interests as loan com
panies and law courts have
been established upon request
United States lawyer volun
teers serve as law clerks in
Sierra Leone and Niegeria,
helping codify the law in
those areas of Africa. In
some places, where law codes
worms
areas are to have one be a
play area and one a lounge
area, said Harper. Each
room will have a television,
he said, plus candy and pop
machines.
"W7e hope eventually to
have a snack bar in the Ray
m o n d kitchen, he said.
Lounge furniture will be
placed in the old dining area
and it can be used for a
recreation area also, he ex
plained. Two new staff members
have been hired to direct the
dormatories, Dean Snyder
said.
Mary Francis Holman will
be the director of Pound
Hall and Wayne T. Kuncel
will direct Cather Hall.
Each floor will have a stu
dent adviser, she explained.
"We hope to have two of
these 12 be graduate assist
ants who will help Miss Hol
man," she said.
"An officer set up will have
to be worked out," she con
tinued, "to form a coordinat
ing government. Each floor
will have its own officers
and will be an independent
unit."
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quested administrative aid
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civil procedure.
When asked what kind of
Corps volunteers will be
needed in five years, Direc
tor Shriver answered, "T h e
same as today's. Skill counts,
but so does quality of char
acter." What kind of person quali
fies for service in the Peace
Corps? "We have jobs for
any American citizen over the
age of 18'," Shriver said.
"We want people, first, but
we're looking for a certain
kind of individual he must
be able to subordinate him
self to the diet and customs
of the culture of the host
country. He may be a car
penter, physical education
specialist, or a nurse, but
spirit for the work comes first
with us, and then the skill."
Shriver pointed out Corps
policy forbids accepting any
assignments requiring Amer
icans to be bosses. "Even
though we may be more
skilled, we take positions sub
ordinate to foreign personnel.
"We sent 25 registered
nurses to Tanganyika. On
their own, the girls elected
to discard their white uni
forms and wear instead their
student trainee uniforms.
"Thev noticed outdated and
questionable medical prac
tices almost at once but, in
stead of ordering immediate
technique improvements, they
carefully worked instead to
brin? ud standards casually.
This kind of thing takes more
time, but we feel It mates us
more effective and successful
in (he long run.
"Obsolete farm tools were
in use at another location.
We don't, however, make it
a practice to dazzle under
developed farmers wtih a full
array of new equipment, tor
we reason that after we leave
we want the local people to be
able to carry on with what
with workers where they are
and work to take them a
step or two further. That will
demonstrate material success
for them, which is our goal."
He said Peace Corps volun
teers often are in- an area
where other outsiders are
working. "In Tunisia our peo
ple are cooperating with So
viet satellite diesel tractor
technicians operating Ameri
can construction equipment
The same is true in Indonesia
with teachers."
Then, with comment that
drew applause, Shriver said,
"Franklv. I like that I like
the idea of our pitting our
dedication, ou zeal, our non
esty and energy against com
munism. If you want to help,
we are invitine you to go in
there and show undeclared
people the true intentions and
face of the American people."
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