10--The Daily Collegian Friday Oct. 10, 1980 Chinese dance energetic, colorful By KARE:v KONSKI Daily Collegian Staff Writer The Youth Goodwill Mission from Taiwan extended their message of inter national friendship during their perfor mance Wednesday night in Schwab Auditorium. The troupe, made up of college students from the Republic of China, held the audience throughout their two hour show with their energy and enthusiasm. Although the performance began slow ly with the solo "The River Flows On," the troupe quickened the pace in the next number, "On Horseback." Their energy did not subside after this song. The male performers of the troupe were particularly impressive during "On Horseback." Their hard, pounding dance steps, along with the use of riding . . ... .. . . .. . . ... ..,, ~ ~........... . .........„ •......,,, . ..,. , ... •'..,,,,.....•••••••:-,.•.,.'' • '•-•.:'.". ••••••.''' .' ':...-'' ;..' : ;:. ~....-:•••;.'•..''....''. . .. •• .. . . . ,•. "-- "' • • • ' " . " ' ' - " • ... . . . . .. . . ._ . „ . . . . ... .. ' ..•' • ' -• • • . . . ' ' • . .. ' .' ''' . • . • . . • .• ' • ~ • . _ .., •, .. .• ' .• S• :•.... • i'. - . • •......:...- . :• ..-; the , .. . : ....: .'............ ..' ; :::....:. : : : . : -1 ,.......... ; : . -..'di:111; .--. .. ... ._.• • • • ....•, ....................,.„..,. •••.....,,.............c01164itcn.,...,.. .. , do• ***** •• ***** •••••••••••. • • • Picka Flick • • • Reviews to help you choose. : • • .ads define the times. • • • • ,twibe,Collegian • • • • ••••••••••••••••• ••••eee" CONTACT LENSES Hard Lenses $105.00* Soft Lenses $185.00* *single vision lenses includes complete vision examination • Dr. Marshall L. Goldstein Optometrist 201 E. Beaver Ave., State College, Pa. 238-2862 THE HIGH COUNTRY POPLIN SHELL AL; NYLON LINING THIS WEEK ONLY '44" REG. $55 SAVE 20% 'Ora .-- ws cokt 21)0ta'out: S, M, L, XL , Guoeted CI.P. ek*t. Plat! /Ode CUP. ~---1 datofria& , ~ L " a.asl- lib e mall >l „ ore \ envy, orovvee %Limier pad Mloo prxtet.6. la oithael. PACIFIC 'llMillit blue yoke, grey body brown yoke, tan body -M e e gnaw, Fly ) t 44 CoV,6tzv tan yoke, navy body MICHAEL'S'C4OTHING CO. Fraser St. VIC Ij Mini Mall crops and whips simulated the rhythm of horses perfectly. Strong vocals and flute solos made "Swallow, Oh Dear Swallow" memorable. Highlighting the first act was "In The Marketplace." This song combined acrobatics, kung-fu, and the ancient art of storytelling for a glimpse of life into a traditional Chinese village. Costuming for the first act was im pressive. The troupe dressed in tradi tional Chinese silks that were brightly colored and added to the festive mood of the show. The mood of the second act changed from festive to somber as the troupe began their interpretation of their culture and heritage. Portraying their ancestors in "The Crossing of Black Water," the dancers expressed all the fear and danger of Denise Levertov ANATOMY Photo by Janis Burger POSE #t* Aocd. 238-4050 theearly settlers of Taiwan. The effect of the billowing white silk cloth used to create the turbulance of the sea was par ticularly breathtaking. "Picking Tea Leaves," a softer, slower song showed the talent of the female part of the company. Their light steps and graceful moves expressed the hope of the Chinese women as they work ed in the fields. Perhaps the highlight of the evening was the final dance number. With flutes playing "Yankee Doodle" in the background, the entire troupe perform ed a choreographed version of an American football game. One member of the troupe, Chia Yu- Fen, said at the beginning of the even ing,"We are not professional per formers, but we will try our best." The audience could not have asked for more. The flowing, vivid poetry of Denise Levertov "Listen: the wind in new leaves whispers, smoother than fingertips, than floss silk smoothing through fingertips. By P.J. PLATZ Daily Collegian Staff Writer These words are typical of the flowing, vivid poetry of Denise Levertov, author of 11 books of verse. Levertov read from her poetry Tuesday night, her visit in conjunction with the University's 125th anniver sary. The majority of the works she read were from "Life in the Forest," while two came from "The Free ing of the Dust," winner of the 1976 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Best exemplified by the first poem; "For the Blind" (above), Levertov caressed every word that slid past her lips; "s" 's were especially pronounced due to a gap between her front.teeth. But instead of distracting, the impediment made the words seem more_ lifelike; the ear became especially attentive to the unusual, lull ing sounds. THE UNIVERSITY CHAPEL i SERVICE •• ' •'•• - `• ~ • • •;"••!, -::%/•!it , t0;;!..1 • THE REVEREND WILLIAM H. RADER Pastor, The United Church of Christ Boalsburg, Pennsylvania Sponsored by the Office of Religious Affairs (A Division of ,the Office of Student Affairs) Music provided by the University Chapel Choir UNIVERSITY CALENDAR SPECIAL EVENTS Friday-Sunday, Oct. 10-12 Friday, Oct. 10 Sports: volleyball (women), Lady Lion Invitational, through Oct. 11. Geography Dept. Coffee Hour, 3:45 p.m., Room 319 Walker. Thomas Falk, Stockholm School of Economics, on "Retailing in Norrkoping." GSA film, Mutiny on the Bounty, 6 and 9 p.m. l Room 10 Sparks. SFO film, The Fixer, 6:30 and 9 p.m., HUB Assembly Hall. Ballroom Dance Club meeting, 7 p.m., Room 133 White. Interlandia, folkdancing, 7:30-11:30 Room 301 HUB. American Studies—lAHS film, 1968, 8 p.m., Room 64 Willard. Kern Theatre, "Story Theatre," 8 p.m., Room 112 Kern; dessert reception following performance, Room 102 Kern. Artists Series, Pittsburgh Chamber Orchestra, Szymon Goldberg, conduc tor, 8:30 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium. Saturday, Oct. 11 Last date for final oral doctoral examinations for Nov. graduates and for. Nov. graduates to deliver masters' theses or papers to adviser. Sports: rifle, Penn State-Army-Navy ROTC, 8 a.m.; cross country (women) vs. Virginia, 10 a.m.; bowling vs. Maryland, 1 p.m. Wargame Club meeting, 8 a.m.-midnight Sunday, Room 101 EE East. Artists Series, Pittsburgh Chamber Orchestra. Youth Concert, 10:30 a.m.; Concert, 8:30 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium. GSA film, The Caine Mutiny, 7 and 9 p.m., Room 10 Sparks. Kern Theatre, "Story Theatre," 8 p.m., Room 112 Kern; dessert reception following performance, Room 102 Kern. Sunday, Oct. 12 Sports: lacrosse (men), Penn State Invitational; bowling vs. Gettysburg, 1 p.m. University Chapel Service, 11 a.m., Eisenhower Chapel. The Rev. William H. Rader, The United Church' of Christ, speaker. Shaver's Creek Nature Center, Action Socialization Experience, 1 p.m., Stone Valley. Preregistration, 865-1851. Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, 2 p.m., Room 111 Music Bldg. Peggy Shipley, flute recital, 2:30 p.m., Music Bldg. Recital Hall. Air Force ROTC Staff meeting, 7 p.m., Room 307 HUB. GSA film, The Caine Mutiny, 7 and 9 p.m., Room 10 Sparks. Folklore Society, Square Dance, 7 p.m., Walnut Bldg. Kern Theatre, "Story Theatre," 8 p.m., Room 112 Kern; dessert reception following performance, Room 102 Kern. • , • 4.%-pt4:4,,-;;•. • •-• Trlfo. Sunday, 11:00 a.m. October 12,1980 11101 The Youth Goodwill Mission from Taiwan dramatise Chinese culture and heritage with energetic and colorful dance and song, as in this scene, "The Crossing of Black Water." . . . and the harps flowing like milk' Levertov continued with three longer works of Rus sian theme: "Conversation in Moscow" ("Red wine from the Black Sea"), "Like Loving Chekov" ("our bodies angry with us for giving them to each other and then allowing something they don't understand to pry them apart, a metallic cruel wedge that they hear us call necessity"), and "Chekov on the West Heath' ("Alone at home, in between visits, I write, paint, read and read, practice Tur Elise' with feeling (and too much pedal), help er thought and words. She reflects her uncertainty of the death in "Talking to Grief"; "Ah, grief, I should not treat you like a horheless dog. . . I should trust you." Of "Earliest Spring" Levertov said that after many grief poems this "was the first I wrote about my early childhood, and what my mother gave to me; it's a joyous poem." (And quite a lovely one, I might add.) Snowdrops: "thin sharp green darning-needles stitch through the sticky gleam of dirt, belled with white!" Crocuses: "these point upward, closed tight as eyelids waiting a surprise, egg-yolk gold or mauve; and she br tl9 '.+.. , ', , ' 4'4:' , ,,;.<'...::,, ,, .:,..,, ' , .4.:-:•!:P‘..'.4 , :ii:.:.:..4:' , :',;'.1'1 , ":;;',' ,. :., , :.^ ~ P11,`,.- - . ::: T- , ...' .. ' . .':; 4i.v..-..• " ,.. ; 1 ';'•;' , ; ,. .: . ., - .:' , "'"•.7K . . 4', , , , ~,..'. .: ~,, ; 7,,i',-f,,.1,m,......,,,, Very conducille to friendliness &mashing ift*MY 11004 -4- v2:00 EM-' 6.6 V 4... -‘lllllo' FRIDAY JUNCTION or COLLEGE 4 GAMIER STATE, COLLEGE. Plenty of farkiiici bellitio( -The STATIM J.ni-2-,c3.vn ct3ily. ER= ings my gaze to filgree veins of violet traced urid white; that make the mauve seem." Humor entered into several of her works, especially in "What My House Would Be Like If It Were a Per son." After running down a list of animals ( horse, cow, chickadee), Levertov pondered, "And it would purr, though of course, it being a house, you would sit in its lap, not it in yours." (4 Perhaps the most vibrantly enchanting poem was p "Nightingale Road" (S. Wales, circa 1890). A native of Wales, Levertov admitted, "I inevitably must read this poem woth a Welsh accent ; " and words were softened by the accent, the rise and fall within each line also pointing toward the gentle, feelingness. Images of gold, milk and song flowed within the poem and itb telling. ". . .I'd hear them singing, a regular choir they were, and the harps rippling out and somehow as I'd be falling asleep I couldn't tell which was that golden hair they had, and all with that milky skin. The voices sweet and gold and shrill and the harps flowing like milk." ~~ ~~ MEI ~~~ 'Jackson Browne still holding on By JUSTIN CATANOSO Daily Colligian Staff Writer The death of a loved one is a shattering • thing. It cati lead a survivor into holding on tightly othe past while holding out blindly on the , future. Yet althdugh death ends a life, it does not end •th f e relationship that life was built upoiLi • • It's taken Jgckson Browne quite some time, but kith the recent release of his sixth alburb;, "Hold Out," it seems he's finally come to grips with that simple reality. ' • • In the fis4 years since his wife died, Browne submerged himself in his music, ,• Made the road his friend and constant companion and held out on anyone dar ing to permanantly penetrate his protec tive shield. But with "Hold Out," a reflective con- cept of his reacceptance of life and love, Browne appears to have cautiously i burdled an emotional mental barrier in realizing he could not hold out forever. Perhaps •to better understand what Browne has come through and fully ap preciate where he stands now, one must look back on his last two releases, "The Pretender" and "Running On Empty." Since Browne's material is undeniably *autobiographical, his transformation can ' be traced with relative ease and clarity. 1. Phyliss I3rowne committed suicide while Jackson was working on "The Pretender." With songs like "Here Come Those Tears Again" and "Sleep's bark and Silent Gate," the album's Underlying theme clearly conveys scat tered remorse tied together with haun ting questions. In the song "The Pretender," Browne mocks man's quest for love and money. He calls himself a happy idiot who will dontinue his "struggle for the legal tender," but is far too disillusioned to seek true love again. •Browne's aptly named "Running On Empty" epitomizes his life style through the late '7os. Songs like "The Road," "Nothing But Time," and "Shakey Xown" point to a harried, mobile ex igtence of one-night gigs and one-night stands. . "Honey you really tempt me, you know the way you look so kind," Browne sings in the song "Running On Empty:" "I'd love to stick around but I'm running behind. You knoi , I don't even know ylOhat I'm hoping to find." Either by chance or unadmitted per sistance, Browne has indeed found what Perhaps he was secretly hoping for all along. Her name is Lynn Sweeney. She's a 21-year-old blonde whom he met while twring Australia three years ago. Browne says they'll be married either .ti el :i o ` ~ this month or next. "Hold Out" is dedicated to Lynn Sweeney and Browne admits that she is the girl in the songs. And those songs col lectively have disappointed some Jackson Browne fans. Some argue that the Browne's usual acoustic melodies have been washed over with commercial electricity and that "Hold Out" simply does not measure up to past releases. But to ridicule a song like "Disco Apocalypse" for its superficial tren diness or to write off "Boulevard" for its commercial tempo is to ignore the larger, total concept Browne seeks to ex • press in this album as a whole. The album is a love story of sorts, revealing a gradual evolution of human emotion. Each song, beginning with "Disco Apocalypse" and ending with "Hold Out Hold On," is linked together in a special sequence as Browne again relates the latest chapter of his life through song. Although Browne has been accused of jumping on the bass-driven bandwagon for "Disco Apocalypse," he views the song, which he wrote in 1976, much differently. "I think it's an affectionate nod to disco," Browne told Rolling Stone Magazine. "It's meant to be friendly. I certainly would not want to take sides on anything as stupid as either approving or condemning an entire idiom of music." In a sense, "Disco Apocalypse" acts as a simple transition from "Running On Empty." Browne seems to be trading his wheels for something much more sta tionary. In the next song, "Hold Out," Browne admits to trading love for glory, but the cries and cheers of adoring crowds have left him empty with no where to run. Browne is toying with a social commit tment here and that becomes evident in "That Girl Could Sing." "Here I was, sorheone who didn't believe in love but in my own personal freedom, my . own personal search," Browne said, "and I found someone drawn to someone who was free. So what did I do? I immediately became the per , son I didn't want to be. I wanted to possess that woman. " And as it so oftens happens, "possessiveness can ruin a relationship. It can drive a person out to the streets to begin looking again. "Boulevard," Browne's radio hit from the album and perhaps its weakest cut, puts him on the street, but "Of Missing Persons" brings him in again. "Of Missing Persons" is as beautiful a song as Browne has ever penned. The soothing melody drifts emotionally into its upbeat chorus, with Browne's voice slipping very effectively into falietto when the song calls for gentleness. It mirrors a change in values for Browne and points the album in the direction of its now inevitable conclusion. "Oh what if it's true/ What my heart says/ Oh what'll I do/ What if this feel irig becomes hard to part with." That's Jackson Browne singing, folks. :No kidding. In "Call It A Loan," he comes to admit, and at long last, realize that he can no longer take "love" for free. "Hold Out Hold On" reveals a side to Browne that, in all probability, has never surfaced in any of his previous releases. The piano introduction to "Hold Out Hold On," lively and en thusiastic, foreshadows the song's intent. Browne acknowledges all the reasons for not falling in love, but his outlook on life has changed markedly. "Hold a place for the human race/ Keep it open wide/ Give it time to fall or climb/ Let the time decide." Browne obviously directs those words as much to himself as the person he's singing to. The hold out has found something to hold on to. In the classical form of a happy en ding, Browne, speaking above a lilting piano melody, tells Lynne Sweeney he does indeed love her. It's a bit melodramatic, especially for Browne, but in the context of what's come before it, the melodrama seems somehow appropriate. "Hold Out" is not Browne's most ac complished collection of songs. The desperate recklessness heard so vibrant ly in classics like "Late for the Sky" and "For Everyman" seems to have mellowed. Like so many songwriters who appear to produce their finest work when crestfallen, brokenhearted and depress ed, Browne's future writing, now that he's happily in love, may decline in quality. But for now, congratulations are in order. Browne has come to realize that the death of a loved, one can be respectfully overcome. In "Of Missing Persons," he asks, "Does, it take a death to learn what a life is 'orth?" He soon answers his own question: "This will always be your day of birth/ may you always see what your life is worth. . ." ackson Browne elk Every Day is a Banquet at SOUTH SEA It- CHINESE RESTAURANT Afr. We have not changed our prices in four years. It's the truth! . v a Meals include egg roll, steamed rice Starting l i , ~ or fried rice, dessert, hot tea. at $2.95 7 Please bring your own wine or liquor with you For reservations or takeout call 238-8843 1225 Benner Pike (Across Friday, Saturday-4:30-11:30 pm from Starlite Drive-In) Su da -Thursda -4:30-10:00 .m Free Parkin. "AN ELEGANT GAME OF CAT-AND-MOUSE. ... It steps lively, outdistancing most comedies by a mile. Glenda Jackson is crisp, chic, and right on target." Rex Reed The Daily Collegian Friday Oct. 10, 1980-1
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers