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AUTUMN HORIZONS

Canada’s federal election,
the Watkins report and the
deepening farm crisis are feat-
ured in the Autumn issue of
Horizons which appeared last
week. _

Mel Doig examines the Fe-
deral Elections and Quebec
and the Trudeau Phenomenon
is the title of an article by
Phyllis Clarke. :

The issue also includes an
article by Alan Blakey on Ro-
bert Gourlay and some notes
on “White Poetry Only” in the
U.S. by Walter Lowenfels.

Reviews of No Greater Pow-
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EH?

An offbeat play with an off-
peat title—“Eh?” by the English
writer, Henry Livings, is receiy-
ing its Canadian premiere and
opening a four-play season of
Belmont Theatre Productions at
the Central Library Theatre in
Toronto.

Publicized as ‘a satire of Man
and the Machine, and the mad-
ness of automation and conform-
ity,” the comedy describes the
plight of a young man, so hung
up by society’s pressures that
he has become quite incapable
of handling a job that requires
him only to push a button and
oil Some gears from time to time.

The plant manager pleads, the

dre exhorts, the lady psychia-
trist analyzes and warns — but
no dice. The world’s a machine
and our lad just wants a damp
cormer to grow mushrooms in
peace. And eat them.

The theme is timely, but the
playwright darts off too often
into absurdist blind alleys that

lead nowhere, confusing his au-
dience and obscuring his satir-
ical intention. I think “Eh?”
would profit from a pruning. The
director, Brian Meeson, has not
sufficiently exploited the play’s
comic possibilities nor clarified
its meaning. An overall tighten-
ing of the script and the action
should. greatly improve the
show’s attractiveness.

I feel the actors work too
hard; they ought to relax and
enjoy it more. Most effective
member Of the company is Da-
vid Hemblen. As the maverick
in the machine age, he plays a
raw-boned, virile, jut-jawed
cross between pre-historic man
and his alienated, drop-out des-

> cendant.

Joanne Hall’s design for the
boiler room is a highlight of the
production. The rumbling, hiss-
ing, flashing monster of a boiler
has a life all its own. Sound ef-
fects and lighting are vivid and

very much a part of the play.

—Martin Stone

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BISSELL

Maximum tolerance
and liberal rhetoric

Last Wednesday noon five
hundred University of Toronto
students heard two presidents
debate radically different views
about the role of universities in
Canada. The pleasant hour-long
verbal hassle between Adminis-
tration President Claude Bissell.
and student spokesman, Steve
Langdon was blessed with more
than splendid fall sunshine. It
was a tribute to Bissell’s policy
to weed-out student protest
with maximized tolerance, good.
will and liberal ‘rhetoric.

Bissell’s three-pronged argu-
ment described the university
as servant, critic and leader of
society. He said preparation for
professionals was being mini-
mized and that corporations re-
alized this was in their inter-
ests. “The university strength-
ens the middle level of the po-
pulation and hence brings about
a more just society,” he said. As
a critic, Bissell said the univer-
sity “must bite the hand that
feeds it.” Expansion of know-
ledge by its very nature: chal-
lenges the status quo, he claim-
ed. Finally, he argued most peo-
ple were amoral and apolitical.
“Most scientists and academics
are contemptuous of politics
and party warfare and are sus-
Picious of ideology.” Bissell
charged that if a university
adopts a party or ideological
position there would be no turn-
ing back down the road to tota-
litarianism.

“T want to go back to liberal-
ism. I know it isn’t popular, but
I think we need dialogue, not’
by coercion of authority but the
authority of an idea,” he con-
cluded. And students clapped,

Steve Langdon opened his at-
tack by urging students to ex-
amine the society and context
of their university- first. “We
live in a class society where the
quality of life, not just in
luxuries, but in essentials, is’
determined by income.” He said
access to good health, education
and decent housing in Canada
was still dependent on whether
you were born in the working
class or in the middle and upper

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