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SPRING/ REBEL o70
~Bes at we ee a Chip Callaway
Pee ee Bel ae Charles Griffin
Ae ee a William R. Day
Se Se ee Jennifer Salinger
* Re Paes Gey See kaos Jan Harris
| ee As eae hs" Pamela Van Slyke
ce ed Ovid Williams Pierce
Fi Uler, Nicki Glover, Charles Mock, Steve
NMhy Robinson, Barbara Taychert, Bob Thonen.
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Wisteria weeps through
Thick, weather roughened
Fingers of the oak,
Flower tears turning to amethyst
In the alchemy of april,
Transforming winter witch
To spring princess
Robed in jeweled opulence.
Plum branches burn vermilion
Against the soft gray sky
Of early April,
Wands of fire weaving bright patterns
In the chill air,
Warming cold hearts
To the hurt of spring
After a winter deep with snow.
The idea of revolution has been with man absurdity shines when one imagines that he
ever since he made his first step to change his can see in the photograph a Biafran village or
position from one place to another. Dynamism, the Potomac River.
or the state of unequilibrium, seems to be an Obviously, instead of striving for some goal
innate quality of all nature, particularly the that would stop all need for change, man had
state of nature known as man. Man is con- better strive for some way to make change
stantly aware of his imbalance with the world, itself the answer to his problems. Why is it that
and he is constantly making steps to orectify� the idea of revolution is so appalling and fright-
his situation. He rarely makes the correct deci- ening to most people? Probably because every
sions, for if he did, he would soon have no more revolution, or basic change, has been regarded
decisions to make"all would be well with the with distrust and accepted with reluctance and
world. Obviously, this has never been. O hopeless resignation; that a revolution could
In his pursuit of equilibrium, or the Greek
harmony, man makes the events that are
recorded in our history books and that bring
happiness and death to the peoples of the
world. Perhaps strangest of all about manTs naked shrubs growing green with buds, as we
decisions to change is that none of the changes watch apple trees change from bud to blossom
have ever brought about an end to the ever- rS to fruit, how can we separate ourselves as living
have taken place destroyed manTs faith in his
present situation as the final result of all pre-
vious attempts.
As we gaze out of our windows at formerly
present dynamism of change. Nirvana has beings from the dynamic cosmos of life? How
never been reached, or even closely ap- can we remove our social institutions from the
proached. There are still nationalistic states continuum of revolution and call them sacred
ever-ready to war with each other. Nearly one- in their static existence? How can we send
fourth of the worldTs population is destined to someone to die in a war for a cause that tomor-
die from malnutrition or disease. row may be passe? When will we realize that
Perhaps many of manTs fruitless endeavors there is no satisfaction in the achievement of
would cease to exist if he would realize his anything, but rather only in the act of achiev-
position of incapability in regard to controlling ing? When will we learn a lesson from the lilies
the world, or creating his own natural order. @ @B @. @ of Spring"to grow a new blossom each season;
There is a famous photograph of the earth to grow stronger and greater, but never strong-
taken by an astronaut from his space capsule est and greatest.
on the moon. His achievement dims and its
Burning eyes stare at the sky,
Then at pines that brittle in the sun.
There must be rain
The tower watchman sighed,
Then drank a paper cup of water,
Crushed it in his hand,
And watched the still green forests
Stretching far and wide...
oLike withered grass the minds of
men catch fire�
And the watchman in their towers
Stare at the sky;
Draining paper cups
To keep their minds from going dry...
INTERVIE
Dr. William White is one of the unique professors who reinforce the belief that education
begets wisdom. By combining a thorough knowledge and understanding of the past with an
artistic ability for creative synthesis, he clearly establishes himself as an excellent critic of
American society. White has an uncanny insight into the basic causes of most social problems
and the basic changes needed to alleviate them. In fact, much of his work has been done in the
field of social evolution and revolution in relation to the human factor.
We are intrigued by Dr. White because of his competence but moreso because of his courage.
We think that he is one of those few people who wouldnTt hesitate to tell the sacred American
pig that his pen is dirty and crumbling more every day.
(Dr. White is currently a professor in the History Department at East Carolina. )
Why are so many people revolting today?
Well, first you have to go back a few centuries and con-
ceed that the classic concept of evolution was based on a
very simple Greek philosophical idea that one social pheno-
menon neatly and sweetly evolved into another social pheno-
menon without conflict. Conflict was a part of this, but not
always a part. This went along with the idea that history
primarily involved the political and diplomatic. However,
during the 18th and 19th centuries the idea developed
through Hegel and Marx that you cannot have social change
without conflict. In other words, if the dialectic synthesis
of history is such that it has always produced conflict, only
by conflict are you going to get positive social change. | think
the present problem goes back to simple sources.
The first is population expansion. Secondly there is the
rise of technology which directly impinges in the opposite
direction. The result is there are now more people and fewer
jobs for those people to comfortably and creatively perform.
The result is a vast population of people who are either un-
employed or, even if they are employed, are employed in
some meaningless task which is not creative and not pro-
ductive.
Some years ago, the Rand Company came up with the
idea that by the year 2000 there will not be any real work for
the vast majority of people. Something like 90 per cent of
the people would really not do anything. You can see that
already in the United States. WeTre shifting from a producing
economy to a service economy. More people are involved in
the sale and distribution of many items than in the actual
making of the items. Cigarettes are a good example.
You say people are starting to rebel. Do you think itTs be-
cause of pressure from outside or from some change in their
normal everyday lives?
| think both. This business of hunting for the outside
agitator is ridiculous. The major changes are within the sys-
tem itself. The system of life has changed. The average
parent today is very hard put to even raise his own child be-
cause of a difference of opinion, a difference of outlook, a
difference of culture between the parentTs generation and
the generation of the child who is now going through gram-
mar school. The grammar school today, as you can see very
clearly here in the mid-South, is a totally different institu-
tion than it was 25 years ago. Its whole goal, outlook,
methodology, and material is completely changed. This is
the stuff of which revolutions are made.
What revolutions do you see as necessary for people to be
able to understand each other and live in peace?
For one thing this idea of building a bridge over the
Bering Strait is a tremendous thing. It would allow direct
motor traffic from Alaska to the USSR. It would be a tremen-
dous thing. It should be implemented immediately. Even if
they canTt build it, it would be a marvelous try.
Another thing | think should be done is a revamping of
the structure of the American public schools. We should get
rid of the everlasting bureaucracy that weTve built up. These
people are incompetent, illiterate, untrained. They should
be retrained at a fantastic rate, at a sort of pressure cooker
rate, to teach the courses they are being paid to teach. Once
thatTs been done we can put into our public schools, down to
the third grade, the major languages of the world. We could
build up a large number of people who can communicate.
One of the staggering things is that when you go to countries
like Belgium or Israel you find hundreds of people on the
streets, even garbage collectors, who can speak English.
Maybe not well, but they can speak it well enough to com-
municate. The tragedy in American society today is that in
the words of the world we are illiterate. The average Ameri-
can politician hasnTt the foggiest idea who the French are or
what they think. The average American politician is totally
unable to communicate with his equal from Brazil or from
Japan or from West Germany. This has not helped. Now ITm
not an educationalist.
This just happens to be a personal hang-up of mine. But,
it is still a very important point.
The public school situation...
As far as our public schools are concerned, they are slow-
ly heading towards economic collapse. | think what you are
going to have is more and more pressure on the society as a
whole to do its educating. | expect to see many more junior
colleges and community colleges; | expect to see many
more pre-school programs. The whole society will get into
the act of education.
TodayTs education"a search for educational absolutes...
This brings up another major revolution that is heating up
the fires. | have said on numerous occasions that the prob-
lem with American schools is that we evolved a system
which was pragmatic but which had no root synthesis. John
Dewey told us that there really wasnTt any absolute truth and
we believed him. Now we are up against a system where we
have to teach our children to survive in the world of the 21st
century. A world where technology is king and queen and
god and all other things. You've got to have an absolute edu-
cational system. You've got to have a system of absolutes
where everybody comes up to them if our social technologi-
cal structure is to survive. The U.S. public schools are torn
right up the middle. One hand is nailed to one side of the
cross saying you must teach the absolute truth of scientism
and the other hand nailed to the other side of the dilemma
saying that we cannot teach anything but interpersonal de-
velopment. So we are caught right in the middle and the
American public schools are made to clean up all of the
social problems of the century. The schools must integrate,
the schools must solve the problem of the American sexual
hang-up, the schools must solve the problem of alcoholism
and dope addiction. The schools must solve the problem of
racial inequalities and social imbalance. Obviously, by its
very structure, the very pragmatistic neutral core, thatTs the
last thing in the world the schools can do.
More on education as it relates to the U.S. international
situation...
| think that the projections which show that Russia, Ja-
pan, and Red China will be the great nations of the 21st
century are true. | think we can stay in that exclusive club,
but not with the sloppy, chaotic, do-nothing educational sys-
tem we have now. There is no such thing as illiteracy in Ja-
pan. They would never allow themselves to give service de-
grees. You see, the Bachelor of Education, the Master of
Education, the Doctorate of Education do not represent any
learning in the classical sense. All they represent is a trade,
the accomplishment of certain methods. Just like being a
journeyman printer, a journeyman carpenter, or a journey-
man plumber. This was fine back in the days of the Dewey
educational system. It was no more than supporting the
westward expansion of our economy, but the cowboy econ-
omy is gone, just as the cowboy mentality is gone. Today we
cannot use a cowboy educational system. WeTve got to deal
with an educational system which has as a theoretical basis
a freedom of creativity. That should mean financial tax sup-
port of all types of schools, not just simply the state-run
status schools.
Educational change...
We've got to get ourselves out of the Dewey pattern of
thinking, out of this public education mentality which has
always assumed that problems are additive and all you have
to do is find some new way by which you can move ~aT to ~bT
and ~bT to ~c.T This has got to stop. WeTve got to have an edu-
cational endowment somewhere in the system. Possibly it
could be a seminar once a week for freshmen, and, well, all
through the school system"something whereby kids get
down to root problems, where we get down to dealing with
the classic problems of the one and the many"the prob-
lems of individuality and the problem of human dignity.
They have to do this on a broad front, not just in a philos-
ophy, economics or psychology class, but on a broad human-
ities front. This has to be done because kids do not think; no
American educational bureaucrat thinks. None of them
think in radical root terms.
Political thinking in radical root terms...
NixonTs going to give the Post Office workers a raise. Fine.
Where is the raise going to come from? ItTs going to come
out of taxes, which is going to increase the inflationary pres-
sure to where they are going to have to have another raise.
What you need is a wholesale reorganization of the postal
system so that it isnTt carrying those hundreds and hundreds
of tons of junk mail. Let the people who want to send out all
the junk mail pay to have it distributed. They should pay the
going rate for its distribution. All you're doing now is fi-
nancing another inflationary spiral. ThatTs because there has
been little or no radical attack on the root of the problem.
WhatTs happening to people as far as their religious out-
looks are concerned?
The religious outlook is being very deeply influenced.
First of all the idea of an objective source of truth, whether
itTs the Bible or whatever, is pretty much destroyed in our
society among those thirty years of age and younger. It has
also been destroyed in the minds of most of our policy-mak-
ing class and most of our intellectual class whether they are
ministers, or sociologists, or even generals. They have dis-
pensed with this idea. And so we in America are stuck with
a vast interconnected set of pragmatics on one hand and
existential phenomena on the other hand. This has deeply
affected religion in America.
Religion has been secularized"probably by two forces.
First the church has become the last great bastion of pres-
tige and privilege. The church is almost totally dependent
on the middle class for its support. It has become almost
financially impossible for any church organization to attach
itself to the major social problems in such a fashion that it
can bring about any radical change. By radical | mean root
change, not violent, but root change " change where it
counts. The church cannot do this without jeopardizing its
financial structure. The second great impact has been the
impact of modern existentialist philosophy. Many theolo-
gians, Catholic and Protestant, are moving in the same di-
rection, which is a greater role for the layman ina ritualistic
mysticism. A mysticism of man. | really think that thatTs
going to be the goal of modern religious enterprises.
It would seem that language and culture have always
been a problem for the world peace movement...
Yeah, but the fundamental problem is always religious.
By that | donTt mean what church you go to, but the inherent
philosophical presuppositions that a person has.
Why are people so afraid to attack the root problem?
ItTs because of the fact that it causes friction. It hurts the
old established bureaucracy. The man who has put in
twenty-five years of hard effort to get where he is and then
finds out that the whole structure of his career is evaporating
is not a happy man. So, to hold his position of prestige and
authority in the community and, of course, his income, he
has to demand that these changes not take place. But weTre
in a century where we can't help it. These people are going
to have to be trained to the inevitability of change"to think
in terms of change.
Do you see any sort of political revolution coming in
America?
Yes, | think that a political revolution in America is
bound to come. | hope that it is a political revolution of the
type which will involve state constitutional conventions with
possibly a different role for the political parties. Maybe even
a new structure for the political parties will result. | hope it
will be a revolution of law. But ITm afraid that because our
institutions are old and inefficient and subject to pressure
that the revolution will be violent. The force of conservative
middle-class trade unionism will force the government into
making large-scale financial commitments which it cannot
justify from its tax revenues. | think ultimately the economic
pressure will force some very violent changes. | hope the
people donTt go into the streets. Whether or not they go into
the streets will be not a decision of the radical extremes, but
the decision of large flocks of American people. Like the
Post Office strike. The Post Office strike could have gone
into the streets and if it had, it would have been far more
violent than any pack of screwballs with long hair and pot
sticks in their mouths.
Why do people do dope? What do you think of the prob-
lem?
People do not want to face the dope problem in America.
Many government officials, not all, many educators and
others do not want to face the fact that people take dope
to escape pain. They escape the pain of life in the 20th cen-
tury"thatTs the pain they wish to escape. They can escape
it sexually, they can escape it alcoholically, they can escape
it by drugs from a doctor"which is how most of the middle
Class does, or they can escape by taking dope, by smoking
pot, but essentially they are looking for an escape from the
pain of the 20th century.
How do you feel about the United Nations?
| would be very happy if we could go back a couple of
years and reimplement the United Nations to give it the kind
of moral, financial and ethical support that we were giving
it and allow it to be a power in the world so that it could
stop the war in Vietnam, or the everlasting war in Africa, or
the war in the Mid-East. But, | guess we canTt go back.
\'m afraid that this would be against the great nationsT nat-
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doing is already happening with the county-wide. police
force. With one. central agency itTs cheaper. This will call
for more experts. This will call for what Jenkins here at ECU
is already talking about"a police force which has had a
police academy training. This will have to come.
What sort of future do you see for American socialism?
| donTt see any sort of future for American socialism be-
cause socialism, like communism, is an obsolete concept.
Socialism is a 19th century concept. It was born in the 18th
and 17th centuries and has now run out of gas. ItTs not work-
able and itTs not practical today. It was useable at best only
in the kind of industries which were abroad at that time"
the big iron factories where they had steam engines which
needed thousands of coal miners, and so on. But, in an
electro-chemical world where one small generator the size
of a desk can make enough electricity and can be controlled
by a computer, socialism isnTt going to work. People have to
learn jobs instead of going to work. Jobs have come to the
point where even the simplest task like operating a lathe be-
comes not a physical process, but a decision-making pro-
cess. Today, pushing the right button to make sure the ma-
chine will operate properly is what a job is. This situation is
going to put severe strains on the classic concept of work.
This is going to be very difficult to solve.
Love and sex...
The simple motto that love is god will become dominant.
It is already beginning to dominate our society. | think along
with this will come a drive not for material prosperity or
for material prosperity of the individual, but for outright,
across-the-board sex appeal because this will be one of the
goals of life. People will pursue this as they now pursue fat
checking accounts or fat securities.
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And larks are seen
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And we know not what we do
When the fire in the eye
Of a girlis answered by a cry
Of pain from the heart
When the aged stand by
With their wise mockery
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Those who have outgrown it
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Ulster. But the memorie ft it were terrible:
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nervous sweat dribbled down his backside as
fore the cane. The blows were
is bad as the anticipation of them, 1
nelts were easier to bear than
the scorn of his schoolmates. It was a scorn
that left no room for redemption.
oWhy did you own up, Terry-rat? Father
Mulatto (a dark, hairy priest baptized Corrigan)
t know you pinched from the collection
box.�T Terry had owned up however, to that and
a host of minor offenses until God decided he
was no longer fit to attend a Christian grammar
school.
In the Navy it had been a wheezing British
Petty Officer from Newcastle, and instead of a
cane he used his power and his tongue. That
bastard did teach a lesson"Terry became
Terence Malloy and began to practice the rites
of survival: silence and obedience. Scrubbing
the pissers wasnTt much of a thanking for
speaking your mind.
And then the war was over and briefly, the
terror faded. Those were good times. In the pubs
Terence and his friends forgot about terrors
after a third pint. Sometimes when he was very
drunk it would return more violently than ever,
causing him to rush and tremble back to a
woozy numb sobriety.
When Terence was hired at a radio plant he
was sober, and terrified of Mr. Dawson. Dawson
wasnTt a bad sort but when he raised his voice
he made Terence and the others move quickly,
because everyone knew about unemployment.
After two years there Terence, now called Mal-
loy, felt good enough to marry Maeve of the
Accounting Department and find a flat.
At first it wasnTt so bad, when it was just
Terence and Maeve in their three rooms. They
had it fixed up kind of cozy with some stuff her
mother had given them, and some new pieces
on hire-payment. Maeve was good to him, ex-
cept when he came home drunk. Then she
would unleash the terror and drive him before
it. oTerence Malloy, you are a god-damned
spineless nobody. Why donTt you die?�
And he did, that very night.
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My trust like chaff
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Our lives like stars
are set apart
As the frost will ever flee
the rising morning sun
And chaffing time comes done
Our hearts will never meet.
For | am made of the sun
« and you of the frost.
For Chris, lost
You were lost inside your mind,
Basking in the burnt out stares
Of a blind audience;
Dancing naked through a strung-taut tune
That blasted all our screams to fragments...
| felt that almost | could touch you;
But with your-face flaming in your hands,
With your back to mine, your hidden sigh,
| could not find the words
To cross the silence roaring by...
So, Chris, | tried to reach you
But | only yelled into a storm
And perhaps you can remember
Someday hearing through the roar
Of the world storm that swept you
from us
Swept you far away...
Heavy as a blind man standing up now
From a fall
| grope for something to hold onto,
lf the ground beneath me should be broken
In the quakes of silence;
And grope for something to hold onto me,
Should | be swept away...
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.Ts masterful fantasy, CatTs
Cradle, gets its title from a game that children play
on their fingers with string. The cradle they make is
fun, but full of holes. So is VonnegutTs CatTs Cradle.
His wit has a cutting edge and his imagination is
made of quality elastic, but his is a cynical voice of
doom. An endless assortment of odd-ball characters
satirize the times, the country, the sciences, the
economy " you name it. Every line is loaded.
The pleasure in CatTs Cradle comes in stinging
pellets, scattered shots. The pain sets in when the
reader reflects upon the message of the whole work.
The narrator has been converted to Bokononism.
The Books of Bokonon, the sacred writing of Bokon-
onists, leads its followers to enlightenment about
the universal human condition. A favorite dis-
covery of the narratorTs, which he pounds into the
unsuspecting reader with myriad examples, is a
paraphrase of the suggestion by Jesus: oRender
unto Caesar the things which are CaesarTs.� Bokonon
teaches: ~Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesnTt
have the slightest idea whatTs really going on.�
The narrator discovers Bokonon when he sets
out to write a biography of Dr. Felix Hoenikker,
inventor of the atomic bomb. His research takes
him to Illium, where HoenikkerTs colleagues (or
subordinates ) show him an expensive laboratory
full of childrenTs plastic toys. Convinced that all
scientists are madder than he had suspected, he
seeks out Dr. HoenikkerTs three weird children, a
horse-faced Amazon daughter named Angela, a
midget named Newton, called Newt (for short ), and
their insane brother Frank, who is about to marry
the goddess of San Lorenzo.
Each of the children has inherited a crystal of
Ice-Nine, which, if dropped into the ocean, will
turn the whole world into ice. The question then
becomes, not whether Dr. Hoenikker had a right to
make the bomb, but whether Ice-Nine will destroy
all life on earth.
CatTs Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Co., 1963, 165 pp. )
(Dell Publishing
CAT'S Oe
CRADLE Beas
VonnegutTs not-too-subtle conclusion is that thereTs not a lot thatTs worth saving.
EverybodyTs been had, in one way or another. Bicycle magnate H. Lorne Crosby of Evans-
ton, Illinois, on his way to San Lorenzo with his wife, Hazel, a Hoosier, confides: ~Christ,
back in Chicago, we donTt make bicycles anymore.... ItTs all human relations now. Nobody
can get fired, no matter what; and if somebody does accidentally make a bicycle, the
union accuses us of cruel and inhuman practices and the government confiscates the
bicycle for back taxes and gives it to a blind man in Afghanistan.�
And Bokonon teaches man about the organization of society. A granfalloon, according
to Bokononists, is a seeming team that is meaningless in the way that God gets things
done. Examples in the Books of Bokonon are the othe Communist Party, the Daughters
of the American Revolution, the General Electric Company, the International Order of
Odd Fellows " and any nation, anywhere, anytime.�
CatTs Cradle is prophetic in a way. Written in 1963, it says more about 1970. Little Newt
himself says why: ~No wonder kids grow up crazy. A catTs cradle is nothing but a bunch
of XTs between somebodyTs hands, and little kids look and look and look at all those XTs....�
oAnd?�
oNo damn cat, and no damn cradle.�
The only thing one can really be sure about is that a substance called Ice-Nine does
indeed exist. It canTt blow us all to hell, but it can freeze us all to death. Freeze or burn,
whatTs the difference? WeTre goners either way.
Janice Hardison
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The Strawberry Statement by James Simon Kunen
(New York: Avon Books, 1970, 176 pp., $1.25)
Two years ago Columbia University experienced
a series of events variously described as riots, hooli-
ganism, disturbances, and revolution. Word choice
depends, as usual, upon which side of the fence
your political fanny is hanging. In the midst of the
fury was James Simon Kunen, disillusioned college
student and part-time revolutionary. The Strawberry
Statement is a kind of leapfrog diary loosely centered
around Mr. KunenTs part-time revolutionary
activities.
First of all, to explain the title. After the police
were withdrawn from the Columbia campus in upper
Manhattan, a dean of the university was asked
whether the students approved of the administra-
tion of their education. To the dean this was as
irrelevant as asking owhether or not they like straw-
berries.� The press and various radicals-in-residence
seized upon this, the ~strawberry statement,� as a
rather banal symbol of ColumbiaTs unresponsiveness
towards its students.
But the students responded to Columbia. They
took over buildings, dipped into some secret files,
and smoked President Grayson KirkTs cigars. One
morning Kunen got up: oI get up and shave with
Grayson KirkTs razor, use his toothpaste, splash on
his after-shave, grooving on it all. | need something
morale-building like this, because my revolutionary
fervor takes about half an hour longer than the rest
of me to wake up.� He spent the next few days
scampering around the campus playing hide and
seek with the Tactical Patrol Force, ending up inside
the 24th Precinct House jail.
At no time does the author make the
mistake of taking himself too seriously.
Somewhere in that ironic frolic Kunen
was radicalizing " | suspect at the
moment a police billy club caressed his
hip, sophisticated Columbia University
skin. From that point on the game was
no longer a game.
Most of the time Kunen uses a half-
mocking tone in describing himself and
all the other players. The Strawberry
Statement does have one burst of pure
literary rage, which is spent almost as
soon as it begins: ~o~YouTre [you being, of
course, Them] going to get human or
your stinking bodies are going up
against the wall.� Yes, Holden Caul-
field is alive, attending Columbia Uni-
versity and uttering vague threats at
the world.
William R. Day
The STRAWBERRY
STATEMENT
o| have seen all the works that are done under the
sun; and behold, all is jive and vexation of the spirit.�
So said George Washington, embarking upon The
Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger. For George is
Mr. Jiveass himself, hustling from the farm to Har-
lem to a community of black refugees in Copen-
hagen. Copenhagen, Denmark " where all the
legendary blond freethinking women live, and where
a black man could possibly be a man.
Cecil BrownTs novel is basically a unique variation
on the old search-for-identity theme, unique because
his hero is very black and very alienated and his
search is almost entirely sexual. George Washington
(the irony of this name is perhaps a bit obvious )
goes parading into the beds of dozens of women,
but never once do they parade into his. Soon our
super-sexual young man begins to wonder: oIt fright-
ened George and made him shake when the women
called him by his real name. What if others knew
his real name too and were just putting him on by
pretending otherwise. Jive him, jiving Jiveass him-
self.�
And that is the conclusion Mr. Jiveass Nigger
eventually arrives at. After jiving the middleaged
consul, her friends, their daughters, and everyone
else in sight, the jive begins to work against George.
The lies and persuasion were once a doorkey into
forbidden territory, but when he got in George
discovered it had been by the back door. Accepted
by whites, but as a creature whose function was
limited to sex.
It is the style that makes this a more-than-racy
allegory. The dialogue is as full of profanity as
rambunctious characters, but hardly ever boring.
The scenes seem to divide themselves into those
based on memory and those based on fantasy, the
memories for the most part being sad or funny and
the fantasies being completely outrageous. But
Cecil Brown ties it all together, in this outrageously
entertaining first novel. | wouldnTt jive you man....
The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger
Brown. (New York: Farrar, Straus, & Girou
$5.50 ) /
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