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Levin Shakespeare
reflects revolution
The revolution of the times depicted on television every
night is also reflected in the works of William Shakespeare,
Harry Levin, professor of comparative literature at Harvard
University said Tuesday.
"Shakespeare initiates us into the mystery of evil, offers a
retrospect of life" and a look at death, he told an audience at
Sheldon Art Gallery.
Levin said that after four centuries, readers today have a
closer access to Shakespeare's texts, because of editors and
other interpreters.
People can read his works in the context of their own lives,
interpret them through their own experience and get what
they want out of them, he said.
"Shakespeare is for all times," he said. "Each generation
has its own modes of apprehending him."
Shakespeare was working with both the time of the past
and the time he wrote in, Levin said. In reading his plays one
gets a sense of the vital interrelation between history and the
contemporary, he added.
"We have been hardened by watching the revolution of the
times on televison," he said, and "we have witnessed more
than our share of bloody instructions."
Many of Shakespeare's works use civil wars at home and
imperial wars abroad as a backdrop, Levin said. His monarchs
have a "sorry record of turbulence and treachery," he said.
Hate, lust and violence are the major values involved in
their struggle for power, according to Levin.
The strong authoritarian emphasis on stability found in
Shakespeare's works is expressing deep basic emotions of his
time. Levin commented.
"Updating Shakespeare is a continual and inevitable process
in the theater," Levin said. "There is a basic assumption that
the best director is the one who can make the wildest variation
of what Shakespeare gives him."
Directors will be forgotten nd their updated plays will get
old, he said, but "Shakespeare will remain to be reinterpreted
by future generations," Levin said.
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Evers backs
Muskie
for President
Urging students to go out and "be shakers
and movers within the structure," Merlene
Evers, widow of slain civil rights activist,
Medgar Evers, endorsed U.S. Sen. Edmund
Muskie as the "man who can achieve the
goal for the Democratic Party-the White
House."
Speaking to a small audience of students
and n ewsmen in the Nebraska Union Tuesday
afternoon, Evers emphasized that she "did
not go into the Muskie campaign without
much research. . . especially in civil rights."
Recently named head of the volunteer
organization "People for Muskie", she found
most convincing "Muskie's honesty and
forthrightness in calling shots as he saw
them."
Muskie recently labeled the climate of the
country as not ready to elect a black vice
president.
"I am still concerned that this type of
climate be changed in America. We should
not have to ask whether it is possible or not
for a black to make the second slot, but for
the first slot," she said.
On Shirley Chisholm, black
congresswoman running for president, Evers
said, "I support her! She's a mover; she's a
shaker; she's a doer; she's challenging the
whole system!"
"She's the best thing happening to the
whole Democratic Party" she added, noting
that Shirley Chisholm will bring people to
the conventions and will produce important
concessions that would not be brought
about otherwise.
"But," she said, "Shirley Chisholm
herself says that she doesn't have a ghost of
a chance."
Evers said she sees the nation as going
through the third stage of events in human
rights.
The first "Phase," according to Evers, was
a period in which people tried to solve
problems through nonviolent means such as
courts and passive marches. This period
produced some progress, she acknowledged,
but mainly produced frustration.
Out of this frustration was born Phase 2,
the period of violence. Violence swept across
the entire nation in a way in which, she
interpreted no one could point a finger at
one part of the country and say "there is our
problem."
Evers said that the period of violence has
given way to "a certain calm that took over
high schools, campuses and streets.
"Under all the calm a policy of benign
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neglect has developed." The Nixon
administration would, according to Evers,
"rather sweep problems under the rug."
"The time has come," she insisted,
"where Americans of all ages have a
challenge never seen before. By acting, by
getting involved, by being committed we will
be giving ourselves and the system one more
chance."
"Why give the system one more chance? I
don't feel that Americans-young, old,
black, brown, women have done everything
that they could do. We have been apathetic
and have looked for simple ways out of
things," she observed and then urged:"Let's
see if we can't do it this time before we give
it up completely."
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