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University of Kentucky
1963

Vol. LV, No. 52

LEXINGTON,

KY., TUESDAY, DEC. 10,

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Throe Events

Debaters Dominate
Forensics Weekend
University debaters ami speakers dominated the Kentucky
Intercollegiate Forensics Conference last weekend at Asbury
College.
In Saturday's debate rounds,
In

Honored at a reception Sunday was Mr.s Edith R.
Potts, executive housekeeper in the women's residence halls, as she retired from 20 years of service.
Shown above from the left are Miss Katie Roberts,
iiead resident Keeneland Hall; Mrs. Billie Dean,

residence halls bookeeper and secretary; Mary
Smith, employee of food service; Jim Turpin, janitor; Mrs. Pctts; and Dr. Doris Seward, dean of
women.

Band, Drill Units Perform
In Big Inaugural Parade
Air Force, and Army ROTC
units and the University Band
are in Frankfort today for the
Inauguration of Edward T.
(Ned) Breathitt, incoming
governor of the Commonwealth.

The units will participate In
three-hoinaugural parade
which will be from 10 a.m. to 1
p.m. today.
There are 160 floats, bands,
and drill units in the parade
which will be the largest inaugural parade in Kentucky history.
The Air Force ROTC will consist of the Cadet Police Squadron and the Sponsor Corps.
The University Pershing Rifles
company will represent the Army
in addition to the Army Sponsors
Corps.
"The Pershing Rifles want to
look especially sharp for the parade because Ned Breathitt was
a Pershing Rifles member at I'K
in 1943," Sandy Broughmaa,
Army Cadet sergeant, said.
The University Band will play
p.m. inaugural ceremony at the
the National Anthem at the 1:30
Army ROTC cadet participat

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ing in the parade include; Danny
Baugh, Pete Davenport, A. E.
Gorton, Bruce Coleman, Edward
Ratcliff, Skip Fee, George
George Lindsey.
Phil Straw, Don Pratt, Mike
Staed, Danny Hutcherson, Robert
Jackson, Mike Bell, Mike Atkin,
Dan McCowan, Ted Emig, Bob
Dunn. Ernie Spokes, Willis Bright.
Harry Spokes, Mitchel Frank,
Biowder Tatum, Bobby Cloud,
Gerard Gerhard, David Dedtnan,
J. I'. Bourne, Rob Robinson, John
Videtto, and John Morch.
Pershing Rifle sponsors attending the parade include: Donna
Forcum, Pat Witt, Karen Schab-li- k,
and Betty Lou Shipp.
Army Sponsors making the trip
Linda Moran, Betty
include:
Chambers, Mary Gail McCall,
Annette Westphal, Anne
Jane Olmstead, Sally
Gregory, Pam Smith, Candy
Johnson, and Toni Barton.
Air Force ROTC cadets participating in the parade will be:
Joel Appling, Paul P. Barry, John
II. Bennet, Lee B. Benson, David
Blair, Winston
Blythe, John
Browning.
Frank Brockhardt, Bradley
Bryant, Ellis Bullock, John Burch,
Dennis Cain, Robert Carroll,

ert Creech, James Dauley, Gary

Easterling, Richard Emrath.
Benjamin Finzer, Stanley Gaj-di- k,
William Hamilton, Joseph
Hicks, Lawrence Houck, Terry
Jones, James Little, Frank Lively, Richard Stevenson.
Randolph Mabry, Delmar Manning, Wayne Maultsby, Charles
McGuire, David Mcintosh, Jon
Noland, Ted Ogle, Terry Ogle,
James Purdon, Hansford Rogers.
Frank Riley, Alan Rowitz, Samuel Salyer, Larry Saunders, Donald Schwartz, Howard Settle,
Hendrick Squires, Claybourne
Stephens, Henry Stephens.
George Strong, Chester Strunk,
Douglas Trabue, David Ward,
Jerry Weir, John Whetstone, Lon-n- ie
Williams, and Frank Yocum.
Twenty-tw- o
Air Force Sponsors
attending the parade include:
Marion Brooks, Marty Carpenter,
Linda Carter, Judy Carwell, Martha Eades, Sharon Edstrom, Carol
Ennls, Judy Gooch, Suzanne
Jackson, Jackie Jones.
Kelly Kirby, Bonnie Lindner,
Debbie Long, Sandra
Lord,
A m o n d a Mansfield, Charmane
Pat Mudd, Marilyn
Marlowe,
Orme, Pam Robinson, Ginger
Sable, Linda Tobin, and Mary
Lou Veal.

individual speaking events
Friday, the University placed in
all three events extemporaneous
speaking, discussion, and oral interpretation.
Bill Grant, a junior Journalism major
from Winchester,
placed first in extemporaneous
speaking. John Patton, a sophomore from Ashland, tied with
Vince Aprile of Bellarmine College for second.
Alvin Polk, a senior from Louisville, placed first in oral interpretation. James Rueff. a senior from Richmond, tied for second.
James Svara, a junior history
major from Jeffersonville, placed
second in discusssion.
Both the discussion and extemporaneous topics were, "What
should be done to minimize strife
among racial groups in the US?"

the UK varsity team had a perfect record with eight wins and
no losses. The tournament rules
permitted each school to enter
two teams but only one could be
designated as competing for the
trophy.
The winning varsity team was
cmoposed of David McCracken,
and Phil Grogran,
Paducah,
Bowling Green, for the affirmative, and Ben Wright, Cadiz,
and James Cockarell, Clarksville,
Tenn., for the negative.
The debate topic was, "Resolved: That the federal government should guarantee an opportunity for a higher education to
all qualified high school students."
Richard Ford, a member of
UK's "B" team won the trophy
as best debater of the day.

Kentucky Author Featured
ln Blazer Lecture Series
author of the re
Dr. Forrest C. Pocue, Kentuckv-bocently published "George C. Marshall: Education of a General," will address a Blazer Lecture Series audience at 2 p.m.
today in the Student Center theater. His topic will be '"Edu
cation of a Biographer."
Pogue was a combat historian
He also will speak at noon towith the First United States
in the Student Center cafe
day
Army in Europe. He received the
teria to the Patterson School Bronze Star and French Croix

Luncheon Club. There he will
discuss the George C. Marshall
Foundation.
Dr. Pogue received an A.B. degree from Murray State College,
his M.A. from UK. and the Ph.D.
from Clark University. He also
studied
international relations
and diplomacy at the University
of Paris.
The Kentucky biographer has
Kentucky
taught at Western State ColState College, Murray
and George Washington
lege
University. His wife Is the former Christine Brown of Fulton
who received her M.A. from UK
in 1937, and taught art In Lexington city schools for 17 years.
During World War II Dr.

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de Guerre.
He has written "Supreme Command," published by the Government Printing Office in 1954, the
official Department of Army history of General Eisenhower's
command in Europe. In 1956 he
"The Meaning of
Yalta," and was a contributor to
"Command Decisions," published
in 1959. and "Total War and Cold
War," in 19G2.
Since 1956. Dr. Pogue has been
director of the George C. Marshall Research Center in Arlington, Va. He has directed a staff
which has been compiling and
indexing material for the Marshall Research Library in Lexington, Va.

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Uinncr of the overa'.l swce)stakes sliowman award in the Little
lull riKilionul toinpetaion is Tom l.duards, a sophomore animal
sei-ni-

major from Prospect. Presenting the award to him is Dr. William
A. Stay, dean of the College of Agriculture.

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and Bridal Club was held Saturday night. Gretrhen Meyers, a senior
Animal Science major, and Ken Poston, a junior agriculture major,
were selected king and queen of the event.

Few Americans Know
Country's Real Wealth,
Reports Economist
Most Americans are not sufficiently informed anout liow

rich the United States is in relation to other countries, Dr.
Bert F. Iloselitz, professor of economics at the University of
Chicago, said Thursday in an interview at the University.
Americans do travel abroad.
During his public lecture on
Dr. Iloselitz continued, usually go
"The Economics of Developmento Europe where they stay In
tal Change," Dr. Iloselitz said the
good hotels and find conditions
not much changed from those at most important measures at this
time appear to be those steps
home.
which will lead in the case of a
If they went to underdeveloped
given country to its best and
countries in Asia, Africa and
Latin America, "they would find most rapid economic growth."
It is not enough, he said, that
that the mass of mankind is
worse off than your poorest
the political and economic problems of a given country be
he added.
Dr. Hoselitz was on the UK studied in detail. Careful attention must also be given to social
campus to address a Faculty
Seminar on Developmental conditions, such as tribal relations and internal social differChange, composed of faculty
members from 15 University deences, he warned.
partments, and to give a public
The prescription of economic
lecture Thursday night in the
remedies is not enough, Dr. HoseUK Student Center.
litz declared.
In principle, he said, Americans
"It is a problem of vast proare interested in international
portions and only if a tremendous
problems. He noted, however, that
amount of work is placed into the
countries with the most profound
study of economic development
problems are little known, and
and growth in each of the many
commented that the American
press often gives more space to very poor nations, will their
describing the unusual ways in eventual achievement of more
adequate economic conditions rewhich people live in these counsult," he said.
tries than to the poverty-stricke- n
conditions
under which they
Population
growth and the
struggle to survive.
growing diversity of individual
"I am very pessimistic," the income differences in various
economist told an interviewer.
parts of the world constitute one
'The world is still inhabited by a of the most important problems
very large number of poor people social scientists can be involved
who have little money, savings or in, the economist asserted.
land. A laree portion of mankind
"Let us hope that within the
is in a pretty bad situation," he
next one or two decades this maconcluded.
jor problem of mankind can be
brought to a potential solution,
he concluded.
The
lecture
series
which
National Defense
brought Dr. Iloselitz to LexingLoans
ton is one of several steps in
All students who were appreparation for establishment at
proved for National Defense
UK cf a Social Sciences Center
Student loans for both semesemphasizing research in social
ters of 19U3-6- 4
are required to
change.
notes for the
sign promissory
second semester in the Scholarships and Loan Office, Room 4,
Frazce Hall. The deadline for
signing these notes is 13:00
noon, Saturday, December 14.

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Horizons '61

Plans Spring

Schedule

It Pays To Advertise In The Kernel!

"Horizons '64" is the title of
the informal talks which will
begin second semester. Sponsored by the Student Center
Board, these talks will be
given weekly beginning Jan.
22 and will continue to April 1.
Professors from various UK
departments will speak in a casual atmosphere and time will be
alloted for general discussion.
These talks will take place 4
to 5 p.m. on Wednesdays in Room
206 of the Student Center.

English Prof
Publishes Booh
On Frontiersmen

1.

What's tlie matter, no appetite?
I have more important things
to think of than food.

2. Worried about exams, huh?

No, about getting old.

A paperback
edition of
'The Frontier Mind," by Dr.
Arthur K. Moore, University
professor of English, has been
published by McGraw-Hil- l
Co.
A cultural analysis of the Kentucky frontiersman, the book was
published originally in 1957 by
the University of Kentucky Press.
In it Dr. Moore raps the notion that illiterate emigrants to
the frontier lands possessed vast
creative powers and made worthwhile contributions to government, education, religion and literature.
He concludes that, far from
displaying the benevolence and
rationality imported to men living
close to nature, the frontiersmen
proved themselves addicted to
demagogism, narrow sectarianism,
and
materialism,

3. You're kidding?

4. You should lie celebrating

not brooding.
The age of responsibility
Is upon me.

Not at all. I've reached a
milestone today. I'm 21. The
days of my youth have flown.

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Campus Calendar

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Forest C. Peguc, Blazer Lecture, Studrnt Center Theatre,
2 p.m.
SuKy meeting at 6:30 p.m. in the EuKy Hoom.
Dec. 11 Concert, Boris Golclov.sky, Coliseum, 8:15 p.m.
Dec. 12 Student B;ir Wives meeting at 7:15 p m. Mrs. Frfd Whiteside, S80 Hart Rd.
Dec. 12 Ladies Bridge Buffet, $1.50; Luncheon 12:C0 to 2:00; Bridyo
10:30 to 5:30
Dec. 13 Formal Christmas Dance Roy Sharp nr.d Orchesf'a; Buffet,
Reservations plea e.
$3.50; Dinner 6:30 to 8:30; Dance
B et
Dec. 14 Formal Christmas Dance Dic'. Walker and Orche.-tra- ;
Reservation
$3.25; Diimtr 6:30 to 8:30; Dance
please
Dec. 14 Basketball, Kentucky-Baylo- r,
Coliseum, 8 p.m.
fpindletop Hall Buffet Dinner, 6:30 to 8:3C, Chri.-'iv.a- s
Dance, (formal) 9 to 1.
Dec. 15 Reception and Open House for Dr. R. D. John: on and Eo:rd
of Directors of SpindleU) Hall, 4 to G p.m.
Dec. 13 Game Night (Bino) Buffet Dinner, 6:30 to 8 p.m.; Dinner
and Game $2.75. Reservations please
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UK Invitational
7:30
Dec. 1
Tournament, Cli.-.tlmp.m.
Dec. 22 Children's Chi 1st mas Party, 3 to 4 p.m.;
Children, Louisiana Courtyard; 6 to 10 years, Library
Dec. 25 Closed Christmas Day '
Dec. 23 Osan Recital and Open Hoir;e; Recital 5:30 to 6:30; Refreshments and Open House .0:30 to 7:30
Dec. 31 New Years Dance (Semi-FormRay Rector and Orchestra
Buffet $3.25; Dinner 6:30 to 8:30; Dance 9 to 1; Reservations please
Dec. 31 Spindletop Hall Buffet Dinner, 6:30 to 8:30; New Year's Eva
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Dance (
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Dec.

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'For Living and Gicin"

ASIC YOUR FRIENDS

Ring Out The Old; Ring In The ISeiv
Getting; into the spirit of Christmas last weekend
Here the ATO's and their little sisters. The ATO's
asked their sisters over Sunday afternoon to help

decorate the house and have a Christmas party
with their big sisters. Seems like the fun of the
season prevailed.

WHO THE
STUDENTS'

Med

Wives

The Med -- Wives are sponsoring
a Christmas Dance for the faculty and students of the college
of medicine, December 20, from
9 a.m. to 1 a.m. at the National
Guard Armory on the Old Frankfort Pike. The dance is
and tickets can be pmchafecl
from Mrs. Gerald Points, 325 Puror from the
due Place,
of Obstretic; and
Department
Gynecology. Tickets are $3 per
couple.

Weddings

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Elections
Sigma Nu recently elected the
following officers:
Bob Dawson, vice
president;
president; Rufus Lisle, secretary;
and Gary Cranor, treasurer.

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* Dean's List
Requirements
The present requirement for the
Dean's List at the University is a 3.6.
Students receiving such a high standing should feel proud indeed, for this
honor is certainly one of achievement.
But is the number receiving the
honor too small? On a
system in such a large university, it
would appear that the answer is "yes."
In many smaller colleges with a much
lower academic rating, the requirement for the dean's list is only a 3.0.
Even Indiana University with a much
enrollment ( approximately
four-poi-

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16,000) requires only a 3.0 for the
honor.
Many students receiving a 3.0 at
the University go home to find that
many of their peers have received a
3.0 and have obtained the recognition
of which they also should be worthy.
Most students at the University are
so unaware that a Dean's List even
exists here, that if they did receive
the honor, it would probably come
as a complete surprise.
The University needs to consider
this proposal, since an incentive to
try to make the Dean's List, as now
constituted, rarely exists.

m necond clnM mutter under tli Act of March 3, 1879.
Entered At the prut office nt I.exlncton, Kcntm-lchool yrnr roiTt during holiday! and exanu.
Published tour timet a week dnrina the retftilur
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SIX UOLLAKS A SCHOOL YEAR

David Hawpe, Managing Editor
Modecki, Campus Editor
Daily Editors:
Elizabeth Ward, William Chant, Richard Stevenson, and John Townsend
of SportJ
Schlreman and Walter Pagan,
Jerry
John Pfeiffer, Arts Editor
Nancy Louchridce, Women's Page Editor
Tom Finnie, Circulation Manager
John Burkhard, Advertising Manager
Phones: News, extensions 2285 and 2302; Advertising and Circulation, 2306
Sue Endicott, Editor

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UK Litterbugs

All through grade school and high
school we were constantly reminded
to keep our schools clean. It should
seem that by now there would be no
need to call this to our attention.
Unfortunately the problem still prevails even in colleges and universities
and UK is no exception. Why this
problem continues to exist is a question only the students can answer.
When the answer is found there will
be no more problem.
To what extent does this "Don't
be a Jitterbug" affect the University?
Each year more than $10,000 is spent
just for picking up trash on the campus and in the buildings. It costs
about a dime for each cigarette butt
that is thrown on the floor of the

Student Center to be removed. This
isn't even taking into account wliat
it will eventually cost to retile the
floors.
Of course all maintenance of this
manner cannot be completely ended,
but the cost of it can be vastly reduced. It may seem annoying and
childish to be constantly badgered
about the cleanliness of school and
campus. However, we ought to have
a little pride in the appearance of our
campus. After all, who cares if the
campus is clean if we, the students,
don't?

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Tlie pain of the mind
than the pain of the body.

is worse
Syr us

Bert T. Combs

Combs Influence Felt Throughout State
Today, in front of the Capitol in
Trankfort. the people of Kentucky will
hail a new Governor and say farewell
to a departing one with all the parades
and speeches, dances and fanfare that
traditionally mark this ceremony
which is at once a beginning and an
end. The hopes and prayers of all
Kentuckians will be with the man who
now assumes the state's highest office.
But their gratitude and affection will
be with the man leaving it.
He is no ordinary man, nor lias liis
been an ordinary administration. In
the four years since he became Governor, he has sliaken and changed
and reshaped our state and its mood
and its view of itself as has no other
man to hold the office. These Jiave
been years of great ferment, of ideas
and action, of building, experiment,
great effort and great risk, of bold
plans and big programs, of old dreams
rekindled and new hopes born.
His accomplishments liave been
too often remarked to need detailed
recounting here. He took a school system on the brink of desperation and
pumped into it vigor and confidence,
lie pushed great highways into sections where highways h ul never gone.
He built parks that other states view
w itli envy and that Kentuckians will
enjoy for generations to come. He
luiilt hospi'.ils for the sick, brought
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world of
into ike
the mental'y ill. He made tlii.; a more
beautiful stale and a more pleasant
one to live in.
He completely altered the political
structure of his party, and perhaps this
was the most surprising achievement
of his administration. For when he
stood before the inaugural throng
1

four years ago there was little about
lu'm to suggest the adroit politician.
His manner was diffident and unimpressive, liis gestures wooden, liis
voice a twang. Few political observers gave him much chance of surviv-

ing the ordeal of Kentucky politics.
Indeed, many considered liim no
more than a pawn in the expected
struggle between factional leaders,
with Happy Chandler waiting in the
wings to pick up the pieces should
the struggle get out of liand. But
now the old factions are broken beyond repair. Those who challenged
Mr. Combs liave limped into obscurity. His chosen man is Governor and
he stands alone at the top of the political peak.
It is interesting now to ponder'
how he did it. His critics have long
debated whether he is possessed of
keen political intuition or blessed with
luck. Certainly part of his success was
clue to his knack of doing the right
but unconventional thing in a way
that won public approval. For nothing succeeds with politicians like political success. And he won first the
admiration, then the respect and finally the affect ion of legislators, practical politicians and state workers by
his ability to take political risks and
turn them to political profit.
It was this political courage, there
is reason to believe, that produced the
great turning point in his career as
Governor, and turned the sales tax
from a deadly liability into the
strength and keystone of his Administration. He had the courage to ask
for a tax big enough to do some good.
And he made it so vital to so many
people that it became not the kiss

of death that it had always been assumed to be, but the weapon with
which he cut down his attackers.

He and Wilson Wyatt wisely
avoided the conflict that many predicted. Instead, he gave the office of
his
a new prominence. He gave Wyatt the job of promoting Kentucky's economic development, the ideal spot for Wyatt's intellect, energy and charm, and in the
process gave state government a grace
and attractiveness it had not had.
d

And surely part of his success was
due to an astonishing energy, a capacity for sheer, unending, unsleepwork. Forty-on- e
ing,
times he "took the government to the
people," moving his entire Cabinet out
into the towns and cities of the state
to hear the complaints and answer
the questions of the people. He tried
to see all of the thousands who
thronged his office. No meeting was
too small, too far up some rutted road
for him to address.
body-breakin- g

No Governor has ever taken fewer
vacations, worked longer, slept less.
He drove his assistants just as hard,
and they responded with a sort of
wondering devotion ("The Grey Fox,"
they called him, "The Mountain
Eagle"). They will recall seeing him
in the white trench-coa- t
that became
his symbol, trudging in his unhurried
mountain-man'- s
lope, from chicken
to gradusuppe r to
ation exercise to courthouse meeting,
.slumping exhausted in the back seat
as his cur sped through the
countryside, boarding his plane for a
take-of- f
from a
unlighted mountain airport with his
ground-breakin-

g

pie-daw- n

hair-raisin- g

rain-swep- t,

characteristic "All right, let's get going."
He made his mistakes. He put his
trust in people not worthy of it, then
kept them too long. At other times he
was harsh and hasty in his punishment of employees who erred. Some
complained that he was devious; others charged that he had a separate
and lower standard for the people
from the mountains with whom ho
often surrounded himself. There was
substance to both charges. It was also
true, as he himself admitted, that his
"housekeeping," that attention to administrative detail that is the mark of
the cautious politician, left much to
be desired.
Part of this was due to the nature
of the man, part of the fact that he
was too busy with big things to spend
much time with the small. He was too
busy building superhighways, rescuing our schools from the last century, giving the state, after half a
century of governmental poverty, a
sensible tax base. Yet he had time to
beautify the Capitol grounds, put
litter barrels along the highways, plant
trees around the mansion and supervise his prized rose garden. Typically,
in so doing he won the state its first
national bcautification award.
Most important, he raised the tone
and style of state government in Kentucky. He made us raise our sights.
For a little while, he gave Kentuckians a glimpse of what they could be.
We shall not soon again see the likes
of Bert T. Combs. And because ho
was here, we shall not bo the same
From the Courier- - ouniul.
again.

* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Tuesday, Dec.

10,

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Literary Magazine On Sale

Stylus' Testifies To 'Creative Community'

By DR. W.F. AXTOV
Assistant Professor of English

The present issue of "Stylus" is noteworthy, not because of the brilliance of its
contents, but rather because
its general competence testifies to the presence on the UK
campus of a real creative community in being. And that is
a happy augury, indeed; for
it suggests our approach to
the time when there will be
an artistic tradition here, perpetuated by influxes of talented young writers from all
quarters of the campus.
Here, for example, is a most
"There's No
Calliope in Hyperborea," by Kenneth Howard Crady Jr., a senior
education major who appears in
"Stylus" for the first time with
a piece in
While his handling of this
most difficult technique is not
always sure, his conception of the
a prematurely
protagonist-voic- e,
aged Apollo archetype, and his
of the mythological
management
parallels, were daring and intelligently worked out.
Here, again, is "The Marriage
of the Lamb" by a law student,
Bob Wombles, another newcomer
to "Stylus." A brutal story of
incest covered by the cuckolding
of an idiot consort, it is told with
an appropriate directness and
dramatic objectivity that keep
the piece from falling into anecdote.
Gary Scott Nunley, a sophomore English major and another
first-time- r,
is represented by a
haunting and powerful excerpt
Enfrom his
titled "Under the Sail," this story
is filled with unforgettable images of dark high places and
ttormy oceans, and of man's ag- -

onizrd endurance among- them,
which struck this reader, at least,
with a power reminiscent
of
Faulkner and the Brontes. While
his command of mood is undisputed, Mr. Nunley might well attend a bit more carefully to
maintaining coherence.
John Martel, a familiar and
welcome name to "Stylus" readers, contributes "Scene: Prelude,"
ss
a section from his
that characteristically mixes
raw pain with tenderness under
very considerable technical management. This seems on the way
toward publication; in any event,
It has that feeling of a writer
who is willing to accept the per- I

interesting story,

fall '63
lis and labor necessary to make
a genuinely creative artist. Of
John Martel's two poems, "Song
from Silver Streets," has the
more interesting
subject, although "silver streets" seems a
little pat, while "The Foot of My
Fire" is an exercise in metaphor
which works itself out in a very
satisfying manner.
Joe Survant offers four superbly romantic poems, of which the
most effective seemed to be

REFERENC!

John O'Hara

"Fall (2)," and "Circle of Water,"
but the latter's evocative imagery
is weakened by the rather flat
lines, nine and ten. "Five Lines"
displays Survant's instinct for the
telling image; and everywhere in
his work one finds a real poet's
feeling for the modulations of
phrase and line and for seeming
simplicity of utterance. In his
verse one continually
hears
snatches of bigger things in store.
Louise Lewter's "Ferris Wheel"
just misses being arbitrary by a
Pne concluding metaphor; and
Joe Nickell's two poems show his
insight working to free itself from
"pretty" diction. Such diction almost kills "Dream," but the last
two lines bring it off; and "Image" has an admirably naked
truth of experience about it. F,
Gordon Scott's "Poem" states a
dual impression of a
landscape.

In short, this issue of "Stylus,"
while not a vintage number, is
still the most hopeful sign in
quite some time for the future of
undergraduate letters at UK, because it demonstrates an apparently widespread and consistent
creative practice among the student body