Wednesday, August 22, 1934
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-1 t's to be a hot fall
FoLtieiar.s will be spouting,
the football team wO be scoring
(ma-be). the bars w3 again be
ful cf revelers, and the interna
tional situation w.3 te critkal
23 ahrays.
Ar.d we at the Pa2y Netras
kan wU be dc-.g our best to
provide information ar.d enter
tainment about all thc:-e thirds.
As is true each fall, we have a
new siaiT and there w-H be a few
ehar.?s in the format ar.d con
tent cf the p;;-fr.
The wire report, which is in
regular pipers, will always be
on pae two. It wij be a little
larger to bring yea a more com
prehensive sampling cf the di's
rational and International news.
But our first pricrty is to bring
you the news that affects you
the most on campus and in
Lincoln.
Again VSL wQ face a tiht
bud:t, and iin students prob
ably wCl be paying more for tui
tion. Classes will be bisr. UNL
administrators will be making
decisions that will affect your
education.
On the lighter side, we will be
bringing you a small comic sec
tion each day in the entertain
ment pages and each Thursday
the entertainment section will
be expanded to bring you more
news about weekend happen
ings. The section will be called
The liz-Z-m
Unsigned editorials will still
be written by the editor in chief,
hut the Dailv Ncbrasksn's stand
on major issues will be decided
by the senior editors, not Just
the editor in chief as has been
the case.
Well be running several syn
dicated columns and two syn
dicated cartoonists on the edi
torial page, as well as columns
and art by our own writers and
artists. But more Important than
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ChrbWelsch
Editor la Chief
After
radio
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joice s on i
blooper, the
Donald Reagan
F
aster than a radio wave, more
poTTcrful than the Kremlin, able to
kip ;ss of reason in a aln.de
bound listen, there cn your radio. It's
Den Cstkls it's Johnny Carson, it's our
president?
Bam, tap, ilrg. Ecnald Ray Gun strikes
aain. Apparently it's not enough for him
to call the Soviet Union "the incarnation
cf evil in the modern world. Now he's
passing laws outlawing then altogether.
And in case you havent already been
informed, "We bein bombing in five minutes."
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I know, I know, he didnt mean it-1 still
think the whole thing is hilarious. That's
why I found it strange that Democratic
Presidential nominee Walter Mcndale told
the press that he didnt think Reagan's
remark was very funny. Ten bucks says
he's laughing his pants off at home.
If you ask me, Reagan must have gone
to the Uncle Don School of Broadcasting.
Unci Don was the sensitive, soft-spoken
bast of a popular children's radio show in
the 4-Os or 50s. Anyway, Uncle Don is
indndfd In every good radio bkxjpers
prrCTa. Ee becars- r Jrnous after ctxer
ir4 litise i.rcrtal words at the end of
orxe cf his wfekiy radio shcs:
Uxsd D:n (scftjy) This is your Unda
I2n ssyirf z:y?j.zti?
Ejiio Techrkisa: Cct.
Uto5 Ite (shxrp !j) Good.Thzl ootta
hold the little bastards for another week.
Radio Technician: Whoops.
Uncle Don was fired. I wonder what
he's doing now? llrybs he could work for
Reagan? I hear Attorney General is stO
open.
Neither Uncle Don or Uncle Ron knew
their mike was live, and both claimed it
was a joke. But more than likely we
learned more about their true feedings
from their jokes than from their actual
programs. And still Reagan claims it was
only a joke.
Can you imagine the howling protests
that would come out of Washington i?
Chernenko had made such a joke? Saying
something like "We begin bombing the
United States in five minutes "over Radio
Moscow? Yuk, yuk, yuk.
Obviously Reagan didnt intend for 11
to hear him. But I got to thinking what
else arent we hearing? I mean, Kiscn rot
all tli at good stuff down on tape. If there
are some more of these Utile gems out
there, let's round 'em up and get thesi
into book form before theyre lost forever.
Heck, he could even call Vatt and
and cut a createst hits album.
TheyVe got more than encash mate
rial. Reagan's always saying fan stuff like
this. I remember one time in 1C21 when
he said, Ho w are you Ilr. Mayor? Tm flad
to meet you. How are things in your city?"
He had failed to recognize Samuel Pierce,
his secretary cf housing and urban devel
opment, at a White House reception for
VS. mayors. AH these gaffes are being
mssTednow.
I love It Maybe the teflon president has
finally gotten some egg cn his face that
wont wipe oft
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Essential reading consensus
1T" ven when unbidden, my readers, who bristle with
M . oplniona, Cy to their pens to riddle me with lists
i 4 cf my errors and shortcomings. When actually
invited, as they recently were by me, to sound off, they
paw the earth like war horses hearing a trumpet's blast
Esrewih a report on my readers and others
thocghis cn reading.
ieorge Will
ence, Constitution and Gettysburg Address), "Huckle
berry Finn," the Bible, Homer's fOdj-ssey," "Iliad"),
Dickens ("Great Expectation" "Tale cf Two Cities"),
Plato's "Republic," John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath,"
Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter Sophocles "Oedipus," Mel
ville's "Moby Dick," Orwell's "1COI," Thoreau's "Walden,"
Robert Frost's poems, Whitman's "Leaves of Grass,"
Fitzgerald's The Great Gatshy," Ch auccrs "Canterbury
Tales," The Communist Manifesto, Aristotle's "Politics,"
Emily Dickinson's poems, Dooyevsky's "Crime and
runisnment, auixner (several novt3 suggesxea;, ou-
uiger s turner in tne Kj-e," IM TocquevLie s -uemoraw
in America," Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," Emer-
WH:m Bennett, chairman of the National Endow
csfst for the Easasirica, saked me, among others, to list
10 wrri3 tht evrry American should read before gra
dr.g frcn hrschcoL fix weeks ago I put my list in a
czZzzzzl asd inried readers, to mail their own lists to
zstL They and ethers initcd by him haw done so.
Tt2 tvzzZls are st-3 rclln in from outljing precinct
t-rx the trend (42 ates hs-e been heard from) is clear,
"Hie aira was to see if there is a consensus among
thesiif ai pecpift abcrst educational essentials. There
is.
Ifj Ert r-r the E!e (pcrtiKa), Arfetotle's "Politics "
Ksta' Apcy" Xkinx? Shshespeare's "Macbeth "
7Ls TdsnCjsi Pfrs. Be Tcon-Ce's "Democracy in
AntrSsa, th linn-Dcas dehates, F. Scott Fits-5.
mlTs Th Grat Ckitiy file WkssTs "Kight, Cardinal
2:3 s lira rfs Urly"
Tb Tr? IT frcn psrsons wnrins to Bennett are:
Shxhsrresre (crpedaTy llacbeth" and "Hamlet"),
Arii d-csns (the Dediran cf Indepcnd
son (essays and roercsY T.frrhftvrrrs "Tli Prince. &W
ton's "Paradise Lost," Tolstoy's "War and Peace," Virgil's
"Aeneid."
The first four were landslide winners listed by 71, 50,
49 and 48 percent of all respondents, respectively.
Although the novel b the most frequently mentioned
genre, the novel aside from Steinbeck, Faulkner and
Salinger contemporary authors were not nominated.
Every selection in the first, second and third "10s" is
clearly worthy.
J. Carter Brown, director cf the Nsticnal Gallery of
Art, reasonably finds fault with an exclusive focus on
the written word. He includes In hi3 Uct cf 10 these four
works: the Parthenon and its sculpture, Chartres Catn
erdral, Michelangelo's ceiling cf the Sistine Chapel,
Bach's "St Matthew Passion on
Bennett notes thtt any 10 works from the Top 3U
would bt a substantial Improvcrncntcn what is read in
many schooh. Frcm the responses, ha concludes that
when literate America ckars ts head end throat it
makes much sen?.?.
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