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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-13
A BOOK FOR TO-DAY
Books and the Cultural Center
By DONALD MINTZ

involved with touring COM
panieS carrying their cultural
messages across the Nation.
Role of Mass Media
But in a country the size of
America, ones thoughts must
invariably turn toward the
m ass media, particularly
radio and television.
Our broadcasting economy
is presently mixed" not only
because all broadcasterS are
subject to considerable Gov
eminent regulation, but be-
cause States, municipalities,
universities, and nOn-profit
foundations and corporations
now operate radio and TV
facilities on the familiar,
commercial bands.
A short and logical step
takes us from the present
situation to the Organiza-
ton of national FIN and TV
networks with their own Or
chestraS, dramatic companies
and program facilities after
the European model, under an
Independent, public authority
associated with the cultural
center. Presumably their
programs would be directed
to relatively small audiences
small in terms of CONNER
cial TV, but not in terms of
total numbers. 1t is hard to
i'm agine that commercial
broadcasters would suffer. It
is conceivable that they might
benefit.
Under such circumstances,
the roles both of literature
and of books in general be-
come clearer. A program like
Invitation to Learning" now
pressed into Is minutes, offers
one model despite its preten-
tiouS title. Stations like WBAI,
New York GIN only and
WGBH, Boston CIV and FIND
consistently demonstrate a
close, imaginative relation
ship between books and
broadcaSting.
We lack only the traditions
for the effective use of sound
broadcasting as a dramatic
medium in its own right. and
those can be found abroad,
particularly in Germany and
Austria where radio drama is
an honored art form.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-13
Critics to Critic

NJ lblC I'll aim N Y Z 1 ~
brushed off the American
Art Week exhibition, Con-
temporary American Paint
ingS (representational art)
in the Smithsonian Foyer
last month, with strangely
unprofessional non-criticism.
Being an art buff Of sorts,
examined the exhibition and
searched for Mr.. Getlein's
tired old chianti bottles"
I finally found three. yes, and
while searching also found.
to my great delight, numer-
Gus fresh, vigorous, creative
examples of painting and
sculpture, many of them
works of real sensitivity"
Ito quote another critic. I
could only think that your
critic was tired and had
glanced only at the nearest
pictures on his left-if that.
I have since heard of many
other reactions to the ex-
hibit revealing a notable en-
thusiasm expressed not only
by the general public but also
by connoisseurs and buyers,
who have to search through
many products of avant-
garde hysterical fatigue and
chimpanzee genius in order
to find the truly modern"
art.
Your art critic would
serve the art-viewing public
more responsibly and be read
with more respect and conf
dence if he were to emulate
the comprehensive art appre-
citation of, for instance, the
Phillips Gallery. When he
criticizes within his own en-
thuSiasms or makes a genuine
effort to see virtues in tradi-
tional style, the writing is
often instructive and even
stimulating.
Grace Quimby.
4 -
I am one of the little
known" artists who has a
painting hanging, by the
neck. at the Margaret Dickey
Gallery on Pennsylvania
avenue. The current Christ
mas show was fleetingly fried
by critic Frank Getlein.
With a few ill-chosen words
he assigned me to cat-bird
seat in oblivion.
Rejection is not unknown
to me. 1t is fast becoming
the norm" The difference
between a Getlein rejection
and past rejection is that in
the past my work has been
rejected on individual merit
while a Getlein rejection is
awarded on a group basis. In
time past, the reflector usually
faced me eyeball to eyeball
and said in hollow Sonorous
tones. Little Known Artist
Chats my alias your work is
lousy because" then fol-
lowed a carefully thought out
alphabetical listing of deva-
stating land pertinent) crit
iciSms. 1t was comforting.
1t gave me a feeling of in
dividuality - that somebody
cared enough to reject the
very best. However, in keep
ing the current accent on
group activity, group
togetherneSs and group
therapy. a Getlein rejection
is really terribly contempo-
rary. No individual names,
no separate analysis, just
good, clean, wholesale con-
demnation. I prefer the old
way rejection on an individ-
ual basis.
Evelyn BrOdinsky.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-13
THE PASSING SCENE
Politicking for Vice Presidency
By WILLIAM S. WHITE

gravity toward their ultimate
choices for Vice President
never before seen. As always,
the presidential nominee Of
each party viii no doubt
have the final say as to the
identity Of his running mate.
But President johnson is
already as good as nomi-
mated for election in his own
right. whereas there is q long
way to go before the country
can know who Is to top the
r epubltcan ticket. Thus,
interest now centers, and for
months yet will center, upon
the probable Democratic
choice for the vice presiden-
cy.
President johnson, It goes
without saying. has not even
begun to make a decision as
to his own preference,
though many names have
been thrown about in specu-
lation: Sargent Shriver. head
of the Peace Corps and
brother-in-law of the late
Presid ent Kennedy: Ted
Kennedy. whose performance
to date as a freshman Sena-
tor from Massachusetts, has
surprised some of his early
critics by its quiet maturity:
Gov. Hughes of New Jersey;
Senators Eugene Mccarthy
and Hubert Humphrey. both
Of Minnesota. And so on.
"Must" Qualities
Now, no Presidential list of
must" qualities for a Vice
President has been drawn
up, or even seriously consid-
cred, but one factor is un-
doubtedly in Mr.. Johnson's
mind. Everything else being
equal, it is very probable that
he would look with favor on
a running-mate who, granted
high general capacity, was of
the Catholic faith.
The President, himself a
Protestant, feels that a
special tragedy in the many
tragedies surrounding the
murder Of Mr.. Kennedy was
the fact that this first
Catholic President in history
was unable to complete even
his first term.
In a broad sense, the
Presidents view of the
characteristics necessary for
consideration for the vice
presidential nomination may
be expected to stress charac-
ter and competence much
more than such traditional
factors as geographic loca-
ton. He has never liked the
sectional approach to politics
and is not likely ever to
make a mans geography a
decisive point either way.
Copyright, 1869
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-13
Lobbyists Win

1t seems that a public be-
damned" attitude has been
taken insofar as a modern
transportation system for
Washington is concerned.
The lobbyists have won out
the parking lobby, Amer
lean Automobile ASsocia-
ton lobby and the highway
lobby. They must feel that 1t
is preferable to spend one
hour on a bus on a clogged
road than to spend IS min
uteS in a fast subway for
the same distance.
1t is quite apparent that
these worthless have never
had occasion to use our "effi-
Gent, modern and comforta-
BILE" Chalk transit. This is
the system where people
stand unprotected in freezing
cold or humid hot weather
watching crowded buses roll
by. Or perhaps they have
never driven behind these
behemoths as they clog up
traffic, block by block, belch-
ing out their incense.
I have long since ceased to
patronize downtown stores.
It's Just not worth the trou-
BILE or the effort. It is easier
by far to drive outside the
city to one of the many
shopping centers.
I once thought Boston,
Mass. was a small town, but
they do have extensive rapid
transit and Subways. I know
now that Washington is a
small town, see mingly
administered by people who
can see only today and care
not for the future.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-13
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used IL
letters carry writers correct
names and addresses. All let
tiers are subject to condenSd-
ton. Those not used tDiH be
returned only phen accom-
panied By self addressed,
stamped envelopes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-13

Now that we expect the
Cultural Center to come into
existence, it might be well to
think a bit about what will 90
into it and the sense Cor sens
es) in which it can be truly
national.
BOOkS-whether of literature,
t houg h t or raportage-are
plainly one part of culture.
But they do not receive much
attention in the currently fash
ionable cultural completes"
and "centers" except in so
far as a library is part of
such a center. Even then, the
library may be technical and
specialized. Lincoln Center,
for example, will shortly be
the home Of the music collec-
tons of the New York Public
Library. Everything else will
remain some distance away
at Forty-Second Street and
Fifth Avenue. The disadvan-
tages of establishing a ghetto
for music are plain enough,
and the New Workers. have
spent a good deal of time
worrying about them.
But however one may an
swer the many questions
about the relationship Of
cultural centers and libraries
throughout the country, very
little will have been said
about the unique problem that
concerns Washington's cultural
center.
Must be National
We come again to the word
national" and the many
things it connotes and denotes.
The Washington center must
be genuinely national. Remov-
ing the troublesome word from
the center's name changes
nothing. For surely we do
not intend to name an essen
TALLY local establishment for
President Kennedy.
Nor can we restrict a ma
tional cultural center to the So
called performing arts. Such
a restriction would be no less
parOchial than the limitation of
the center'S effective area of
action to the Washington
metropolitan area.
Since no library can in
practice be anything but
essentially local, the conjunc-
ton of a library and the cul-
tural center would not solve
the central problem, though
conversion of the Library of
Congress into a proper Ameri-
can National Library associat-
ed with the center might well
improve both the Library's
management and its acquisi-
tons policy.
Let us suppose that the
cultural center undertakes to
be truly national in all re-
Spects. 1t could offer financial
aid to local orchestras, thea
tiers, museums and what have
you under the time-honored
principle Of giving help to
those who help themselves.
1t apparently will become
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-13

Politicking for the vice
presidency in next summers
political conventions. already
softly going on, will move
after New Years Day into
the most quietly intense such
activity seen in this century.
Twice within recent years.
even before the death Of
John F. Kennedy. the impor-
lance Of the office Of Vice
President had been so pro-
foundly proved as to make
irrelevant and In very bad
taste all the old jokes about
fifth wheels and Throttle
bottoms.
First, there was the serious
illness of President Dwight
Eisenhower. which thrust
Richard Nixon into a far
higher place in terms of real
power than had ever before
been occupied by a second
man in the American Gov
eminent.
Historic Decision
Then. at the Democratic
convention in 1860, Mr..
Kennedy took two command
decisions Of historic political
Importance. One was that a
single available" for the vice
presidency. Lyndon johnson,
was nothing less than indis-
pensable. both to the success
OF the Democratic campaign
and to the subsequent con-
duct of the Kennedy admin
iStration.
The old stereotype that a
Vice President was a nobody
going nowhere died for good
and all as Mr.. Kennedy
carried through into the
operations Of his admins
tration his full-and unex-
ampled-purpose to make his
Vice President q totally
informed. fully consulted and
working associate holding
high rank in actuality as
well as in constitutional
structure.
President Johnson's sue
cess thus far in carrying the
country forward without a
hitch. in the aftermath of
Mr.. Kennedy's assassination,
was a consequence. For
President johnson had been
completely involved, all along
and at every step, in the
plans, the policies and the
actions Of Mr.. Kennedy. The
lesson that this kind Of
continuity and competence is
absolutely necessary in the
world in which we live has
been lost on nobody and no
party.
So both parties now ap-
proach the 1864 campaign
year with an attitude of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-13
Free Rider.

A union is not a govern
ment. Many seem to pretend
that they are, and the illusion
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-06

Wen, Is ! always say, you never
get rich writing column, but you
get million dollars worth of mail!
In response to a recent column
! wrote about schoOl-rOOm bOners
Of French children, received this
enchanting missive:
Dear Charlie Rice:
I sUOrked for some years at
GepeIGnfs Miles Park Branch Ii
brGyy as Desk Assistant. I jOtied
dOssn these notes about our young
readers, and / think you'll enjoy
them.
Library rules state that after
three years the chiITs library card
expires and must be renesUed. Re
quests for renewal ranged from "My
card Is inspiring" "a delightful
sentiment to a ibraTiGH) 10 "Card
hes spidered." Gould be- maybe
from dislIseO Other youngsters re-
ported: "Mins has Vsspired''; "H0s
PersPired''; "Is despaired," and
one simply said that "My card
died."
But our taUOTite 'Uas the itle
girl sChO uUanted a neuU card since
"My old one Is expecting"
Just to top it off, the letter was
signed by Mrs. William S. Winky,
of Maple Heights, Ohio. I've often
wondered whatever became Of Wee
Willie Winky, and I'm glad to learn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-06
The POstman Always

he married such a pleasant lady!
And speaking Of names, a Mr..
Arthur Campbell writes from Boston
that he recently attended an astrOn-
Omy lecture and met a stranger
named Beacham. Mr.. Beacham,
upon shaking hands, said, $50 glad
to meet a relative, maybe we're both
Fair6elds!"
Mr.. Campbell couldn't figure
that one out, but the stranger ex.
planned that Campbell and Beacham
were actually the same name. 1t
seems that years ago branches Of the
large English family Of Fairfield
settled in other parts of Europe. One
branch settled in Italy, and trans
lated its name to CampobellO
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The Beauty Event of the Year by
8 HU TT O ~
Kodiak mirror., 1963-08-23
First Alaska Oil Refinery Begins Operations Sat.

First step towards full scale oil industry for Alaska will be marked Saturday, August "A, ill brief ceremonies dedicating the states first modern oil refinery near Kenai.
 Governor William Egan and H. G. Vesper, president of the Stan dard Oil Co. of California which wholly owns the $1O million plant, will be among the dignitaries to
Kodiak mirror., 1963-08-23

witness the erection of 36-foot red cedar totem pole telling f the discovery of oil in Alaska.
 The refinery, located at Nikiski, will process about 10000 barrels of oil day from the Kenai Penin- Sula.
Kodiak mirror., 1963-08-23
KODIAK HEALTHY

Kodiak remains unlisted on the last two weekly communicable disease reports of the Division of Public Health.
Evening star., 1963-05-05
MAN IN THE STRUGGLE


FOR PEACE. BY Charles
Malik. (Harper & Row; So
DR.. Malik is an ex-presi-
dent Of the United Nations
General Assembly and ex-
Foreign Minister of Lebanon.
Both jobs have left deep
marks on his scholarly mind,
A fierce champion of the
Western way of life, more
deeply committed to its
survival than most, he is
profoundly disturbed by evi-
dence he finds around him
that the Communists are
winning the cold war de-
spite their inferiority to the
West.
The standard hopes of
Western statesmen that ma
tionaliSm or hist t0r1ca
change, or even war can save
the world from communism,
DR.. Malik finds, are false.
What" he asks "if inter-
national war on a large scale
never broke out, and what if,
precisely under such condl-
tions Of no-war in the
classical sense of the term,
communism nevertheless con-
tinued to advance until it
conquered the whole world?
In a sense, peace today
is to be dreaded more than
war!"
DR.. Malik fears that "in
peace they are winning, in
Evening star., 1963-05-05

has married apparently in
this order, a reporter who
drank, a major who died, a
violinist who became less in
teresting as time went on,
and finally a scriptwriter
who unnearves her with his
successful in England, too,
where divorce is not easy.
OF Jake, her current hus-
band, she tells the psychia-
trist, HE is mean. vain,
cruel, he is slovenly, he is
sly" She still loves him, how
ever. They are at odds about
having another child. She
wants one. The psychiatrist
suggests her trouble is that
to her "sex without children
is unthinkable." This she in
dignantly denies. AS II to
prove it, she terminates her
pregnancy and is sterilized.
This brings no peace, as it
happens, because she finds
Evening star., 1963-05-05
Family Torn Asunder
By Householder

the attack, he might have
overpowered the sex fiend but
then there would have been
no book. Or he might have
died with a bullet in his
heart and his wife. Linda,
would have suffered her ulti-
mate fate in any event.
What Paul should have
done is every mans dilemma.
What he did do was lie there
stunned while his wife was
abducted from their bedroom
and for the next 479 pages he
is a tortured man as he tries
to discern If he is a coward,
unfit to have a wife.
The rage of his father-in-
law, a burly bootStrap-mil-
lionaire, is Paul's first signal
that all is not going to be
we'll on Capitol Hill when
Linda RECEIVERS. Solicitous ac-
quaintances assure him so
many times that he had no
choice that Paul soon begins
to wonder whether his white
feather is a built-in and in
eradicable accessory.
His malaise over the Incl
dent, plus her fathers con-
tempt for Paul, eventually
rubs off on Linda. This bright,
brittle young woman spends
much of the book avoiding
everybody while she tries to
figure out where she stands
with her rather goody- -goody
husband.
One island Of normalcy
among these mixed up people
is Pauls wise and gentle
father who dies a hero's death
at the beach where much OF
the action takes place.
Prompted by this tragedy,
Paul finally stands up TO his
father in-law in a fistic mis-
match and then wins back
Linda merely by speaking TO
her in an authoritative way.
Any man who can do this
TO his wife is no coward, al
though II must be made clear
that Linda had no rifle
trained on Paul at the time,
Mr.. Wallop, author OF The
Year The Yankees Lost the
Pennant," has penned a novel
here that has moments Of
great excitement and pathos
but Paul is nearly too flaw
less 10 be believed except
when someone has the drop
on him. 1t seems hard TO con-
clude that Linda badly needed
a spanking so soon after her
ordeal but ocean Front
suggests the happy ending
would have come more quick
ly II Paul had administered
one.
JERRY OLEARY, Jr.
Evening star., 1963-05-05
TheLunocy That Swept
Germany Under Hitler

"a syndrome she says Of
German personality.
The title of the original
German edition, "Deutsch-
land? Aber Wo Liegt ESP"
Germany, But Where Is
It?~, seems more to the
point than the somewhat
sensationalized Amer lean
one. For Miss Tempel's book
is a tortured one, in the great
traditions of Goethe, Heine,
and the romantics. 1t is an
attack against the tradition
al virtues of discipline and
order which have led Ger
many to so many dead ends
in the past. Miss Tempel'S
book is proof that among
some Germans at least there
is much love and much
beauty and much compass
sion.
BERNARD GWERTZMAN
Evening star., 1963-05-05

out that her husbands mis-
tress-one of a series, ap-
parently-is having a baby.
Eventually, the heroine fights
her way through to what she
calls reality" although it
is a little difficult to say
what this would constitute in
her case.
Miss Mortimer is a witty
and polished writer, but her
message here is murky. Her
heroine appears to be re-
united with Jake and her
brood. but even this is not
certain, as she says some of
the things happened and
some were dreams. While
her book is a nice change
from the clinical accounts
we usually get of these mat
ters, it seems at best a joke
that never quite comes off.
Evening star., 1963-05-05
MEMORIES, DREAMS, RE-

MEMOhAEo, DhLhNlo, ne
ELECTIONS. BY C. G.
Jung. Recorded and edited
by Aniela Jaffe. pantheon;
$750)
In "Finnegans Wake" Joyce
wrote "Liddell Annie Liffey.
she's Jung and easily freu-
dened"-in English transla-
ton. "Alice in Wonderland
is young. easily frightened
and easily made glad" Mem
ory Of the phrase is a bit
staggering when one reads
the opening chapters Of
Jung's autobiography. for the
man. who enjoyed total re-
call back to his third year,
was indeed a child who fluc-
tuated between terror and
euphoria.
In 1855 when Jung was
81 (he died in l96D, he was
asked TO write an autobiog-
raphy. He declined, but
agreed to talk about his life
and work TO an editor and
a tape recorder. As time went
on. his enthusiasm mounted,
and he actually wrote sew
eral chapters himself.
The lay mind, like Joyce's,
still links the name Of Jung
with that OF Freud, but the
work OF the Swiss psychia-
trist has been largely dis
credited by most students for
many years. and his theories
have not been taught In lead
ing institutions for 40 years.
Whatever his professional
Evening star., 1963-05-05
Dr.. MoIik Says Reds
Winning Cold War

war they are unbeatable =
this is the tremendous di-
lemma of the prese
moment Of history"
The Communists have de-
veloped cold-war techniques
for expanding their influence
which have baffled the West,
he observes, and nuclear
weapons are saving them
from the ultimate arbiter of
the past: War.
The Vests main hope, he
believes, is that "The Com
munistS themselves cannot
win in war either" because
nuclear weapons have made
war irrational.
Before the cold-war Of
fensive of communism en-
velops us, DR.. Malik says,
the mission of the West is:
ITO outrevolutionize their
revolution and to subvert
their subversion under condi-
tions of peace in peaceful
competition"
Present inhibitions on
Western competitive activi-
ties must be discarded, he
believes. The West should be
reawakened to the merits Of
its heritage and press them
upon the world without
shame or apology, he says
Without rekindled zeal, he
warns. communism, though
inferior, may well become
the wave Of the future.
EARL H. VOSS.
Evening star., 1963-05-05
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the functions Of the United
States Public Health Serv-
ice. Information on how the
service keeps as many peo-
pie as possible in as good
health as possible as long as
possible" is made interesting
by being partly given in case
studies. Angry Andrew, the
boy who changes from a
greatly disturbed child to a
normal boy after six years at
the NH Public Health Clinic,
is only one Of the many
benefited by the United
States Health Service.