Hocus
Continued from Page 9
graduation.
As a result of the science fair, in a
round-about way, Hartkc cams an
appointment to West Point Military
Academy. Hartkc graduates, goes off
to war and eventually becomes a lead
ing spokesman for the Vietnam War
effort and a master of the hocus pocus
which his experience in this supposed
police action is so much about.
At one point, Hartke talks about
his Vietnam experience and how his
life during that war was something of
a charade. “In Vietnam ... I really
was the mastermind. Yes, and that
still bothers me. During my last year
there, when my ammunition was lan
guage instead of bullets, I invented
justifications for all the killing and
dying we were doing which impressed
even me! I was a genius of lethal
hocus pocus!”
After the war, Hartkc is hired by
the now retired recruiting officer that
once plucked him out of the science
lair and into the service to leach at an
expensive college for the learning
disabled. Tarkington College special
izes in illiterate rich kids who have
been rejected by most other universi
ties in the Western hemisphere. Hartkc
becomes the the most popular in
structor, teaching physics and spend
ing a great deal of lime sleeping with
many of the female staff members,
including the college president’s wife.
However, Hartke docs have a
family; he’s something of a self-de
nied family man. His estranged wife
and mother-in-law arc hidden away
inhisScipio.Ncw York home. One of
the biggest “booby traps” Fate has set
for Hartkc — and there arc many in
the story of his life — was a “pretty
and personable young woman named
Margaret Patton, who allowed (Hartke)
to woo and marry her,” soon after his
graduation from West Point. She then
allowed Hartke to father two children
without telling him that, “there was a
powerful strain of insanity on her
mother s side of the family.”
Hartke then goes on to say: “Our
children ... can never forgive us for
reproducing. What a mess.”
After some brief unpleasantries
Hartke goes on to teach at an all black
prison across from Tarkington Col
ics6 a college owned by Japanese
investors — where he settles down to
record his life story and also, conse
quently , to become a witness and then
later an accused aider of the largest
prison break in United States history.
Vonnegut is a profound pessimist
who clings to shreds of hope concern
ing Americans as well as the world in
which we live. The America of “Hocus
Pocus” is ugly; foreign investors,
mainly from Japan, arc buying every
thing in sight. And Americans are
more than happy to make that extra
buck, but at what cost to our countries
welfare? This question as well as the
condition of the nation’s corporate
and political leadership is examined.
The cumulative power of “Hocus
Pocus” is considerable. Vonnegut
creates a story of intrigue and, more
importantly, a story with purpose.
His observations are candid and re
vealing. His beliefs are cast through
the characters he creates, leaving us
to believe that statements from Hartke,
such as: “I have to wonder, too, in
light of my own experiences in pub
lic-relations hocus pocus and the recent
history of my Government, if there
weren’t a lot of people back in 1922
who could put 2 and 2 together as
easily as I have now,” are much greater
statements from a person who knows
what he is taking about, and is trying
to beat it into our thick skulls.
Bernstein
Continued from Page 9
tors.
“Bernstein’s compositions were
very rhythmic, and he adapted his
style to the needs of the moment,”
' said Emile, who played under
Bernstein with the Rochester, New
York, Philharmonic in 1947.
“Most American conductors
since Bernstein have tended to be
more physical,” Emile added, cit
ing Zubin Mehta, current conduc
tor of the New York Philharmonic
Orchestra, as an example.
York said Bernstein “felt the
music as it was played; he played
the piece with his body as well as
the orchestra.”
Among such well-known Bern
stein pieces as “West Side Story,”
the film score to “On the Water
front” and the ballet “Fancy Free,”
York included “Chichester Psalm”
as his favorite Bernstein pieces.
“Chichester Psalm” is Bernstein’s
setting of various Psalms to music.
The Psalms arc sung in Hebrew
and include the 23rd and 100th
Psalms, according to York.
York added that Bernstein was
known as a lecturer, teacher and
performer, as well as a composer
and conductor. “He gave other
conductors the go-ahead, that it is
okay to be an American and a
conductor,” York said.
Soul
Continued from Page 9
stripper joints,” Murphy said. “I went
and saw Winger and it was like one
big pool of perfume. All those girls.
For me going to a show like that is
like going to another planet.”
So expect the same loud, honest
rock n’ roll that has pulled Soul
Asylum this far. These guys are still
the same. They argue over the same
old things — Pimer’s Telecaster gui
tar, for instance, which he’s had for
eight years.
It doesn’t work right.
“I wish he would just buy a new
one. For me, it’s a Telccastcr, so it
doesn’t sound that good. And when it
doesn’t work, it doesn’t sound at all,”
Murphy laughed.
Tickets for Soul Asylum arc $10.75
at the door. Opening will be Run
West Run. The show starts at 8 p.m.
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