The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 26, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 15, 1964 Page: 4 of 10
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Pictorial Art,
Frost Poetry,
'Seasons' Motif
Mark Campanile
By JOHN HAMILTON
This year's Rice Campanile
will be a startling book. It will
feature many innovations new
to Rice or to any yearbook.
Differing' in philosophy from
past Campaniles, it has unity
and value as a work of art
instead of a snapshot album
format.
TYoud editor Jeff Winning-
ham revealed these surprises:
It lias some fold-out pages
giving over <10 inches of solid
photographs. Colleges are used
for humor and to set moods.
'I he yearbook will come with
its own case and will he longer
horizontally than vertically for
greater I reodom and continuity
iu t ho layout of the pages.
Calhoun Impressed
While the hook' will not hr
<■ 111)i}i!e;ed till .hino 1 wo-thints
!,f :t has been submitted to the
pubI i<■.'ii i11!is Committee for air
!'1' a I. ( onui i i 11 ee member
Fryar Calii.nm was eiithuiasl ic.
-t I .
■ seen since
In Light Of Modern Psychology
ABOVE—An ordinary black-and-white photograph of
the Physics Building seen through the Cloister of Lovett
Hall.
I interior of the annual
*•'•:!! blow ehuiiges n-lv:ater than
' eo-e of t lie exterior. Till- bo -
tii;n;:in appr<>ach is v-niris; ,t
organization and (jualitv.
the theme, very genera1';-.
~1 atoi!. tiie integration of a
e i i s e of til. passage of 1 i r, i' •
into ! 'niv< r-ity aci it j, ,\
mood of indefinite time is
''lea'ed by the abstract intro-
duction. a section printed in
black, white and monotone grey.
This, is carried into the body
"I the book by organizing the
material into the four seasons.
Season Foldouts
I'.ach season is introduced bv
a double fold-out page ami
poems by Robert Frost or .lei'f
W inning-ham. So v e r a I r
"hot s ale inl ersperse | to convey
the moods of the season and to
connect t.he season with the
peopie and act ivit ies at Miw.
1 lie 1 • ii;! i . r - ays, "The idea h;i ~
:- n.oKo t lie i><>■ >j< read as
•' - '• ny distinct sect ions
' «.• ■ a meani ngfn 1 relat ion
1 ' : •' re - i o: t i IO hook w< mid
' ■■ : Iron; tl!i< pa rp< >.-e. so
' - at t; i ■ f t lias been made to
i ■ - ■' a ng into the flow of
• '-'eat - oj the year. This con-
-'aua-s tin- (enter of the book
and over three quarters of the
pages "
I nit)iif Arrangement
topic,-, which do not readi 1 y
me.-h with i he into g r a t e d
theme a re int reduced at t lie
ends of the seasons. The admin-
istration and Faculty will ap-
peal at the end of the Fa'l
season. Pictures of the faculty
are arranged in a unique man-
ner to prevent the appearance
of ranks and ranks of staring,
balanced faces so common to
t ypieal yearbooks.
The Winter season devotes
twenty pages to close-ups of
people at Rice. Careful crop-
ping and arranging of photos
adds interest and humor. Photos
of students engaged in exam
period study follow the winter
section. Tile exams are succeed-
ed by scenes from the parties
of the year.
Summer begins with the end
of school. It is a time for mem-
ories and expectations. Honors
and recognitions are given in
this section.
Individual Pictures*
I n it i v i d u a I pictures are
arranged by colleges together
Prof. Clifford Leach's lecture
last Wednesday on the love-
poems of Marlowe and Shakes-
peare was delivered with en-
thusiasm and an English accent
that would defy analysis even
by a Professor Higgins. Leach's
urbanity — his mind bursting
with perceptions which fled in
various directions — hinted
profundity, but an energetic re-
telling of the stories of "Ven-
us and Adonis" and "Hero and
Leander" delivered the clearest
impression to the audience.
Tales of heady riot in them-
selves, they were given fur-
ther spice by his sly descrip-
tions, as of Venus as a "god-
dess in heat." And narrative in-
terest being the greatest, the
high point of the lecture in
many eyes was the quoting of
James Joyce's interpretation of
"Venus and Adonis" in terms
of Shakespeare's life:
"DO YOU THINK the writer
of 'Anthony and Cleopatra,' a
passionate pilgrim, had eyes in
the back of his head that he
chose the ugliest doxy in War-
wickshire to lie withal? . . He
chose badly? He was chosen, it
seems to me. If others have
their will, Ann hath a way. . .
The greyeyed goddess who
bends over the boy Adonis,
stooping to conquer, as pro-
logue to the swelling act. is a
boldface Stratford wench who
tumbles in a cornfield a lover
younger than herself."
Hope for the final unity of
the humane disciplines received
a gentle boost from Prof. Bert
Kaplan, Chairman of the Psy-
chology Department, when he.
lectured the previous Monday
on psychology and "King Lear."
Armed only with my prejudices
about psychology, and being al-
most a lone specialist in lit-
erature in a room of behavioral
scientists, I was secure in my
expectation of bafflement.
BY ANALOGY with Oedipal
interpretations of "Hamlet," I
imagined that a handsome sex-
ual neurosis might be discover-
ed in Lear's obsession with his
daughters. Prof. Kaplan's first
impression that "Shakespeare's
plays really belong to the realm
of psychology" looked promis-
ing. But he presented us with
a beautifully restrained discus-
sion of a central paradox in
"King Lear: reason in mad-
ness."
Hamlet, I remember, was said
by the grave-digger to have
been sent to England because
his madness "will not be seen
in him there; there the men are
as mad as he." Were the mad-
ness of King Lear's variety.
Prof. Kaplan would no doubt
have the English be proud of
it.
IT IS THE result of superior
perception—in Lear's case an
agonized realization that only
by degrading himself to the
level of a Tom O'Bedlam, an
"unaccommodated man," could
the long journey to self-knowl-
edge be accomplished by one
who had so long lived blindly
in the deceptive comforts of
supposedly normal society. Thus
Lear's madness is a point of
view from which "the value and
significance of normality are
also to be questioned" (Prof.
Kaplan).
The conclusion of the talk was
a plea against the idea that
madness is a descent from sani-
ty, for "melancholy was not
(Continued on Page 10)
BELOW—The same shot using the high-contrast
technique described at left. This is an example of unusual
photograph} to he used in the 19(il Campanile, although
Editor Winningham hastened to say that the shot below
is nut the best example of the genre. In some cases high-
contrast shots w ill he printed in other colors than black-
and-white. hopefully to yield striking results.
•'ion it> recognition
net on as a date
:ii a tin rd
of thi'it-
guide.
To maintain uniformity of
style and composition one group
has followed tlie entire pro-
duction. There has been a nec-
essary reduction in the number
of people working and gieat
overlapping of duties.
Chuck Rednioti, senior Archi-
tect, is responsible for final lay-
out in each section to prevent
clashes of independent sections.
Linda Walsh and Charles
Demitz work mainly on copy.
Largely humorous, sometimes
serious, the write-ups are re-
ported to be well worth reading.
Jim Hokanson and Jack Gar-
land make their main contribu-
tion with pictures, although the
entire staff doubles in photo-
graphy. Four or five times more
pictures were made than last
year. This way pages can be
arranged with available pictures
rather than seeking posed shots
to fill pages.
Artful And Inventive
Jimmy Treybtg is business
manager. Terry Cloudman is
assistant manager and college
editor. Sports events are cover-
ed by Stuart Glass. Some excel-
lent color action shots appear
throughout.
The last pages remain to be
done and Herrington Publishing
has not begun the printing, but
aheady it is possible to antici-
pate a professional, artful and
inventive book. The capabilities
and daring of this year's Cam-
panile staff, especially that of
the editor, are reflected in the
achievement of breaking away
from a traditional of glorified
and vulgarized annuals of the
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Keilin, Eugene. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 26, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 15, 1964, newspaper, April 15, 1964; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth244915/m1/4/: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.