Banner Graphic, Volume 5, Number 317, Greencastle, Putnam County, 13 March 1975 — Page 4

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THE PUTNAM COUNTY BANNERORAPHIC, MARCH 13/14/1975

(C) 1975 New York Times News Service Americans may be the only people who fail to see the importance of poetry in politics. In the Soviet Union,;dissident poets are treated with the utmost seriousness; their work is suppressed byia state that worries about the latent power in the most free form of literary expression. Yevgeny Yevtushenko, who had been a rebel until he was impressed with the communist cause, i$ used by Soviet authorities to write inspiring lines that transmit the general fine. Criticizing the Peking government,; for example, he

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Letter to the editor ■ i Thanks ' to Frazier

To the editor: j I am writing this letter to show recognizance of a; very outstanding basketball player for the Tiger Cubs. Although this player did not make as many points as other members of the team, he went through most of the season with torn in his knee. Each time this player went out on the court he went through a Tot of pain, much of which 1 doubt if any other player would have done. And each time he did go out on the court he would ;become worse. But because of his love for the game of

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I certainly want to extend a Happy Birthday greeting to my friend Sam Stickle who will observe this event on Saturday, March 15th. Sam and his wife, Dorothy, are enjoying the climate and sunshine in Clearwater, Florida, for a couple of months. 000 Also, here’s an advance Happy Birthday greeting to Christie Lewis who will celebrate this occasion on March 18th. Christie is the daughter of Janice and Scott Lewis. 000 Kenny and Retha Wagle have returned home after a vacation in Florida. 000 : | 1 am indeed gl£d to report that Buzzie Johnson is coining along in great shape after major surgery several weeks ago in Indianapolis, \ 000 I Well, folks, it never fails. Every year during high school basketball tourney time Indiana has snow. : i l am sure many of you will remember the blizzard several years while the sectional was in progress in the uptown gymnasium. A number of fans were stranded and

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pities the regimented Chinese “cheated of his human existence from his diapers,” and writes: “The young - spiritless confusion. And the wisdom of the old who are still alive Is nearly illegal. What have you done with a human being? Limiting him by harsh veto to ouruncited thoughts? There is irony in the use of a regimented mind to complain about another culture’s regimentation, but it underscores the new freedom and self-discovery that is making

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basketball and for the school, he did it in spite of his difficulties without as much as a single complaint. Now that the season is over, this player is recovering from an operation he recently had on his knee. On behalf of myself and many others students, I would like to say “thanks” to senior Kent Frazier for an outstanding performance during the basketball season. C.N. Greencastle High School Student

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This column by Banner-Graphic Civic Affairs Editor Jim Zeis. business operations at local plants were cancelled. In several tournament cities Saturday games were postponed until the following Monday. Oh, well. Spring is on its way although more snow is forecast for this weekend. 000 From all indications, the Kiwanis Club members will have a treat in store for them during the weekly luncheon session Thursday in the Depauw Student Union Building. Mike Tzouanakis, principal of the Northeast Elementary School, will present his school’s choristers in a musical program. I am told that Mike will not do any singing. 000 DID YOU KNOW: Utah has more than 80 natural bridges formed by the erosion of wind and water upon sandstone, including 278-foot Rainbow Bridge, which is a national monument. 000 The Irish potato is indigenous to Peru. 000 An auto trip from New York to Chicago during the early 1920 s covered 27 different numbered roads. 000 “Which brings the thought: It’s much easier to rendezvous with Russians in space than to get both sides down to earth at the conference table.”

William Satire The politics of poetry

itself heard in American poetry, especially in the voices of women poets. “Poets who are women” is the way most of them would prefer to put it, and a rejection of sexism is understandable; yet, as with “woman candidate,” a gen-der-engendered interest exists. Women writing poetry tend to celebrate the emanicipation of women, and that theme has become an artistic drive as well as a political fact. Today, young women seem to dominate American poetry. Although death obsessed Anne Sexton removed herself from the field with the severest form of selfediting, much of the excitement is about the work of Denise Levertov, Diane Wakoski, Adrienne Rich, Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni and Marge Piercy. Most widely known of the new generation of women poets is Efrica Jong, who casts a lovely light because her candle burns at both ends: a serious, provocative poet at one end, and a writer of a sexy novel at the other. Her “Fear of Flying” is a paperback hotcake, and even gets a big play at airport newstands; its shock value centers on the discovery that yes, young women really think that way, and now have the courage to put it in print. Miss Jong's sure-to-come celebrity and financial success may cause the rest of the poetry establishment to turn on her, for popularity breeds in-group contempt. Ad woman-poet Lois Wyse, whose “Love Poems for the Very Married” sold 300,000 copies in hard cover, is compared now with male sentimentalist critical rejection all the way to the bank. The politics of the poetry of Miss Jong and her cohort is in the absence of political or racial protest, which has permeated so much of the poetry of the past generation. Like the varied carols of the folksingers (Carole King, Carly Simon), the message in much of the “voice music” written by the new women poets flows from an awareness of their libeiation: often using the flows the imagery of the body, they delight in discovering that there is no need to be selfconscious about the consciousness of one’s self. Their message is mainly inward and affirmative, rather than outward and

This is a month of goodies for me-the semi-annual chest X ray; the computation of income tax; and a wedding. I’m not losing a daughter, I know; I’m losing my mind. Candidly, I wish the government would take every dime I have in one swoop and mail a suitable allowance to me once a month. My wife feels that this is not logical. Uncle Sam, she says, knows less about the uses of money than she does. In that event, I nominate Kelly Bishop as Secretary of the Treasury and guardian of the petty cash drawer. For years my tax has been executed (the perfect word!), by Mr. Maurice Greenbaum of Greenbaum, Wolfe and Ernst. Maurie is one of those folksy foxes who opens by asking how the missus and the kids are, and closes by reading the figure on the bottom line. Ironically, the missus and the little ones do well until the old man hears how much he owes in taxes. At once the ladies in my house begin to tiptoe around me,

Turning back the dock

60 years ago Putnam County autos were being assessed at $235.00. Lase McCoy of Mt. Meridian, a smallpox victim, was able to be in town. Marshall & O’Hair Feed Co. had moved their office to a room formerly occupied by Mrs. Addie Ringo’s Millinery store. 20 years ago Mrs. Mary Deem had been dismissed from the Putnam County Hospital. Miss Jane Irwin of Roachdale had been appointed Archery chairman by the Women’s Recreation Association at DePauw. Debroah Kay Denny, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Don Denny of Cloverdale, was pictured in the cute kids’ section of the paper. 10 years ago Linda New was serving as president of the Jolly Workers 4-H Club. Mrs. Carrie Miller, county recorder, was on the Board of Directors of the Indiana County Officials association. Mr. and Mrs. Foster Jones had returned home after a vacation in Arcadia, Cal. 5 years ago SPS Stephen Sendmeyer, stationed at Ft. Greenley in Alaska, had telephoned his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Elmore of Cloverdale. Staff Sergeant John Welker of Greencastle had received eight medals for bravery in Vietnam.

angry, or upward and fearful. The protest, when it appears, is social rather than political, against the remaining bonds of sex or against the unwanted responsibility of a sudden infusion of education and opportunity. Rebellion is directed at the way we live and not so much at the way we govern ourselves. Does this attitude reflect the thinking of a self-centered elite group, or does it represent the yearnings and the uncertain freedoms of this generation of young adults-a group that Gertrude Stein might have labeled “The Inward Generation?”

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Jim Bishop

A month full of goodies

whispering, turning off electric lights, using one car when three would do and making bologna skin sandwiches. State of Shock The austerity lasts two weeks, long enough for me to emerge from deep shock. I am never, never completely out of shockI convalesce to something akin to a nerCommentary vous breakdown. I jump when bells ringdoor or phone. A letter with no return address sends me into a spasm. The chest X ray is quick yes or no. I have an old friend at Poland Springs, Maine, Mr. Bill McMorrow, who sustained a laryngectomy many years ago. He worries about my cigarettes. I don’t worry about them because I don’t enjoy them. Like girl friends of decades ago, they have lost something. Still, I smoke because I cannot think of anything else to do with my hands and mouth. No

Ellen Job, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jess Job of Greencastle, had been initiated into the Alpha Beta Alpha sorority at Indiana State University.

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If the young poets are singing what most of their contemporaries are thinking, then aspiring political leaders would do well to push aside conventional polls and tune themselves in. Instead of dealing exclusively with energy-environment policy, unemployment-inflation tradeoffs and services-vs-taxes arguments, political leaders will have to find a wavelength that concerns itself with respect for individuality, the glorification of privacy, the resentment toward society’s standard impositions. This inclination to “do your own thing,”

suggestions. Dlease. The X ray itself doesn’t worry me a bit, unless you count the centuries between the time that Dr. Louis Bennett takes the pictures and the time he pops his handsome face into the dressing room and says, “It looks clear to me.” When I hear those words, I realize that I have not been breathing for a long time. In gratitude, I light a cigarette. If, someday, he says, “Well, now, get dressed and stop into the office. I want to have a little chat with you,” I will pop the whole package of cigarettes in my mouth and light them. If you detect a smidge of fear in this, you are one smart cookie. The wedding-well, that’s my darling Karen. She will be a radiant bride on the 15th, with a great big beautiful life ahead of her, and I will be bankrupt, with a ghastly life behind me. Why in God’s name a father must have four daughters escapes me. This is the third to be married, and I have yet to meet a son-in-law who offered me a stick of gum. It’s a small wedding-you know, small church and a reception at home for two small families who eat like cossacks. The fabulous Marcella, who loves food, will bring it and eat it. And Music, Too We also need gowns and decorations. . For God’s sake, don’t forget a rock combo. If there is anything my ears need less than

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as Emerson called it more than a century ago in his essay on self-reliance, is not necessarily ennobling: it can also be selfish and lazy, corroding young teeth with transcendental caries, refusing to pay for the new freedom with the coin of self-discipline. The social protest of the young women poets is a political fact, ignored by politicians at their peril. The danger to the generation these poets represent is not in going unheard, but in falling into the trap Soviet Poet Yevtushenko finds himself in: Dutifully confirming to a denunciation of regimentation.

a rock combo, it has to be a hydrogen bomb. But we are having a rock combo. For one day, we may have to put the German shepherd in a place where he cannot bite musicians, The guitar and boom-boom kids get paid more per hour than I, and they want their money before the first discordant note is struck. When they take a “break”, which one would pray will be frequently, Max Lewis will play some old ragtime on the piano. Mr. L. plays excellent jazz, schamtzy stuff, although at times he confuses a wedding with a bar mitzvah and riffles through some hora music. When the last drinker has departed, Karen will be Mrs. Paul Savrs, which I will have to practice. She too. Then we will be left with one daughter, the brilliant and gorgeous Kathi. Getting her married may, I suspect, be analogous to working out a peace treaty between the Arabs and the Jews. She is pretty, and flirtatious, but her idea of the ideal man is impossible. She told me what he had to be like and I said, “There was only one of those, and he died on a cross 2,000 years ago.” Still, the month of March will be exciting around here. All I expect in return for my part in these little goodies is to have the portable oxygen tank at my bedside. When it is all over, and I finish signing all the checks, my beautiful wife and I will go off on a trip alone.

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