THURSDAY FEBRUARY 27. 1958
(J.S., Russian Entertainment
Similar— But No Rock 'n Roll
Except for rock ’n’ roll, which is prohibited, the Russian people have many of the same
popular entertainments as Americans, according to the letters cf Yurey Gurskey, 29-year
old Soviet school teacher.
y ure v—who corresponds with David Houghton, junior in meteorology from Media—
"you may hear any dance—
tango foxtrot or waltz (which we
okin“lv call the “West European
polka")"— depending on the place
vou go to, except for 'rock and
roll’ and ‘bugi wugi,’ which are
pot permitted to be played.
Movies, concerts and plays, Yur
ev writes, are also available m
his small settlement of Parak
hino.
For more relaxed forms of
entertainment, Yurey fakes to
the outdoors. He wrote about
one short vacation:
-Twice mv wife and I went
boating on the lakes: We gathered
mushrooms in the woods around
the place. There are very many
mushrooms this year. The weath
er during August was warm but
showerv. Until now, my wife and
I have been helping her parents
dig up the potatoes in their vege
table garden.’’
Yurey seems to have secret
aspirations to be something of a
Muscovite's Marlon Brando. He
sent a picture to Houghton show
ing two new motorcycles on dis
plav in a show window. On the
back of the picture was inscribed:
“My dream—22 horsepower, speed
of 90 to 120 kilometers per hour,
price 5040 roubles.”
But these striking similarities
between Russian and American
ideas end abruptly when the
subject turns to politics, eco
nomics or religion.
On political matters, Yurey
shows a lack of information above
that issued in the Communist
Party line. Speaking of the Zhu
kov affair, he writes:
“To my knowledge from the
press he will be given a post ap
propriate to his knowledge and
experience. I do not know what
law he violated but it is one of
the functions of the Supreme So
viet to appoint and dismiss any
person who does not satisfy it and
does not obey its directives and
orders. According to statements
in the press. Zhukov violated cer
tain principles of ideological work
m the Armv.”
Yurey was anxious lo have
information on the Little Rock
affair of last year. He wrote:
“These last few days X hear
this matter caught the headlines
, y° ur broadcasts for abroad.
What do you think of racial segre
gation in the USA? My stand
pornt is that this is a disgraceful
affair that discredits the USA in
the eyes of world public opinion,
i draw this conclusion from the
comments I can hear by radio. I
S disagree with a Southern
senator who said that this affair
SO OF* be forgotten in the
b East m two or three months,
nave you any racial preju
dires in your Penn State?"
Yurey also refer* to what-he
rads Americans' low standards
of morals:
mnrM f heaf d of the low
moul standards of ‘comics’! A
chi dr k P n r,° Wn , Russlan writer of
hildren s stories in our country,
as onS°r ky ’ Write . s: <As soon
on rnvl-M eS^ magazines a PP ears
lamin 4 4,6,] 6, Rseems to me that
J amm a den of thieves and ban-
See the gleaming
patents
at
I THI* DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE ' PENNSYI VANIA
By DAVE FINEMAN
Second oj a Series
FOR A MOSCOW MARLON—Yurey Gurskey dreams of owning
a motorcycle like this Russian model, which sells for 5040 roubles.
It develops 22 horsepower and can travel up to 120 kilometers
an hour.
Campus Patrol Gets
Temporary Home
The office of the Campus Pa
trol at the University will be
moved today to Spruce Cottage
from Old Main.
Spruce Cottage is located be
tween Boucke Building and the
health center, north of these
buildings.
The location is a temporary
one, since the patrol eventually
will be moved to the new tele
phone building which will be
constructed within the next year
in the vicinity of Spruce Cottage.
APhiO Plans Collection
Of Heart Fund Banks
The plastic heart coin contain
ers distributed for the Heart Fund
will be collected from fraternities
today and tomorrow by members
of Alpha Phi Omega, men’s ser
vice fraternity.
Members of APhiO may be
identified by arm patches or
membership cards.
Marketing Club to Hear
West Virginia Speaker
The Marketing Club will meet
at 7:30 tonight at Beta Theta Pi
fraternity.
The meeting will feature Mr.
J. W. Holdsworth, a representative
of the West Virginia Paper and
Pulp Company, who will speak on
the topic “Selling for West Vir
ginia Paper.”
| It's A Penn State Tradition
Student Poetry
To Be Printed
Students interested in having
their poetry published in an
anthology of poetry being com-;
posed for publication this sum-;
mer by students of the Pacific;
Coast schools may submit entries;
to D. Lyman Cox. executive sec-:
retary of the Pacific Coast Poetry'
Association, Box 302, Berkeley,!
Calif.
Entries must be postmarked be
fore midnight, March 31. Contri
butions must be the original work
of the student and must be sub
mitted with the entrant’s name,
address and school.
• The'association will neither re
turn entries not accepted for pub
lication nor compensate students
for the poetry published.
Tempered Topics-
(Continued from page four)
to dance, the teen-agers said
“With rock ‘n’ roll, no matter
what your mood is, it gets
you.” they said.
"If there wasn’t this music,
we might be getting into trou
ble—y o u know, ihere’d be
nothing to do at night," they
added.
Statistics show rock ‘n’ roll
appeals most to teen-agers
around the ages 12-16. So who
deposits the tons of coins in
the Lion’s Den jukebox every
day?
• For thirty years it has been Balfours and
Crum Jenkins for tops in quality at Penn
State. In other words, the ring that was so
popular with many of your parents is still
the most popular ring on campus.
•Traditoin is the best proof of quality.
Balfours offers you the finest ring at reason-
able prices. Come down to the "A ra Store
and let Crum show them to you. You buy
one ring, so buy the best. Buy Balfourl
L. G. BALFOUR CO.
in the Athletic Store
Hooper Sees Role
Of Poets Changed
The modern poet now tries to wake people to the prob
lems of the times and draw them together, as opposed to his
former function of aiding a person in escaping from troubles,
according to Dr. Stanley Romaine Hopper, dean of the Drew
University Graduate School.
Hopper used the poem, “The Vocation of the Heavy Bear”
by Delmore Schwartz, to describe
the predicament of the modern of lhe Victorian Age and an
f r ge ? s f «Lsr«rj;
lectures in religion on Tuesday. 2l ° eW
pressing An example of the transition
through his writingi-social re- °i * oe S y
jection because of his odd body J°.,^ hat , of rea i ! > *?, the
STtrtSr? V JpoeV'iS m a S £S3
S„” wo“d Sr ißrnkyari- ho said.
jection of a person in the Jew- I Hopper summed up the poet s
ish faith seeming lo want | plight:
Clwistianity. “The poet becomes a seeker for
This type of writing, said Hop- the life ... he becomes one who
per, shows that much of the work searches for the new meaning of
of the contemporary poets is reli-;the point where fresh suffering
gious in nature, as well as ex-:exposes the deeply concealed
'posing the inner beliefs and prob-jwound of the times; there he
lems of the poet himself. j draws the arrows of outrageous
In this vein, he qu o t edjfortune upon himself; he also, af-
‘A poet must now ter his fashion, is wounded for
have a cyclical courage enabling our transgressions, he suffers it
him to expose himself to the peo- all, from the human self in order
Pleand the time. He must be real to make himself open to the new
honest w *th his own'meaning arising like the unac
thoughts. jknowledged dawn upon what is
I He then compared the poetry next to be in the world.”
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