CUBA'7S B.C. Youth Festival Committee and AUUC Youth present: Dance to Flying Mountain Special Youth Festival presentation by: Bargain at Half the Price Sat., Mar. 11 8 p.m. AUUC Hall 805 E. Pender St. | Admission $3 Food and refreshments Tickets at Tribune office or phone \_ 254-9797 or 879-4806 _} Livesay’s vignettes of the ‘30's Dorothy Livesay is a well-known Canadian poet. Numerous volumes of her verse have been published and her work has appeared in a number of anthologies. She has been a recipient of the Governor- General’s award. It has long been known that she was associated during her university days and in the thirties with the left wing movement in Canada. Yet her new work, Right Hand, Left Hand, has been received in silence by the press, a silence that has been broken only, as far as I know, by an unloving review in the Toronto Globe and Mail. Livesay incurred the wrath of some members of the literary es- tablishment recently when she attended an international con- ference of writers in Bulgaria,. dedicated to promoting peace and greater understanding between countries. She went with four other Canadian writers — Farley Mowat, John Robert Colombo, Miriam Waddington and Yves Theriault. All honor to them for their participation. The new book is described on the cover as ‘‘a true life of the Thir- ties: Paris, Toronto, Montreal, the West and Vancouver. Lover politics, the Depression and feminism.” It consists of a compilation of Livesay’s past writings inter- spersed with contributions from other writers. Autobiographical reflections knit the parts together. To those of us who lived through the years of the great Depression, the book is of special interest; for the younger generation it gives an inkling of the character of that FAMOUS ARTISTS Q.E. THEATRE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1 AT 8 P.M. FIRST NORTH-AMERICA UF “Jan outstanding phenomenon” ‘ Muzikainoye obozrenie. “~ .. }\ Czechoslovakia, 1975. pgerest pertect technique and an original staging” Lidova democrace. Czechoslovakia, 1974. VLADIMIR MININ Conductor $6.50 — 5.00 — \ 4.00 Presented with the assistance of the Touring Office of the Canada Council. TICKETS: THE BAY BOX OFFICES DOWNTOWN — RICHMOND — SURREY — LOUGHEED — CHAMPLAIN MALL Charge to your Bay account PHONE RESERVATIONS 681-3351 OPEN DAILY 10-5:30 SORRY NO CHEQUES FAMOUS ARTISTS PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FEBRUARY. 24, 1978—Page 10 RIGHT HAND LEFT HAND. By Dorothy Livesay. Press Porcepic, Erin Ontario, 1977. 280 pp. harrowing period:in the history of this country. 2 In the early years of the decade covered by the book, a group of young men and women, whose background was, in the main, what we would now call ‘‘middle class,” moved into political action. They were united in the promotion of the’ idea that a socialist Canada was the ultimate solution and to this struggle they contributed their intellectual, their artistic, their literary and acting talents. Under the name of _ the Progressive Arts Club, associations were established in various Canadian cities. Livesay herself was a member of the club. Some of the other members are now dead; some have retired to private life; a few succumbed to anti-communism; some _ still remain active in the progressive movements of the country. In the book, Livesay covers the period from the time of her in- volvement in left wing politics during her university days until the outbreak of the Second World War. We see some of the outstanding events of the period as she saw and wrote about them: the killing and strange funeral of the unemployed worker in Montreal, Nick Zinchuk; the presence of a living theatre represented by the staging of Eight Men Speak; the growth of the Theatre in Action; the struggles of the unemployed, culminating in the On-To-Ottawa Trek; and the struggle to aid eémbattled Republican Spain. Livesay also describes her ac- tual participation in the activities of the Communist Party and in the unemployed movement. She aided in the promotion of the outstanding cultural magazine New Frontiers and contributed to its columns. She makes evident her abiding con- ‘cern. Right Hand, Left Hand is not a death prayer for abandoned social beliefs. But any serious reviewer cannot fail to remark on certain weaknesses in the book. It would be better if it had less emotional and more intellectual content. Careless proofreading has permitted a number of names famous in _LIVESAY A_TRUE LIFE OF __ THE THIRTIES: PARIS, TORONTO, MONTREAL, THE WEST AND VANCOUVER. LOVE, POLITICS, THE DEPRESSION AND FEMINISM. ——— English literature to go misspelled and the name of Shaw’s wayward book The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism,’”” has been wrongly transcribed. (Another glaring error is-the crediting of material taken from the YCL’s publication Bloody Sunday. Excerpts from material actually written by Maurice Rush is wrongly credited to Sean Griffin, who edited the publication—Ed.) More regrettable is the ex- plahation of the circumstances that induced Dorothy Livesay to withdraw from the Communist Party. Since it is a voluntary association no one could dispute -impossible. her right to do so, but the reaso® for so doing must be as serious the reasons for the original idet tification: ; Apparently she discovered thal the party, like all parties engag! in politics, was intent on increasif its influence. Such a process ” called the art of politics. As a human institution, it is 1% reasonable to demand that ™ unworthy person should ever be found in its ranks. That su¢l persons are sometimes found is # matter of regret; but if we have 4? absolute fear of contaminatiol any political association would RSH This story, by Daily World sportswriter Mike! Jay, appeared in his regular column, The View from Left Field, following the Ali- Spinks fight. In the end, in the fifteenth round, Muhammad Ali’s_ lion- sized heart was betrayed by his 36-year-old body. Ali gave it all he had, trying for the knockout he needed to win, but he couldn’t put. it together. Leon Spinks won the professional heavyweight championship of the world in only his eighth professional fight. Ali, even the aging, out-of- shape Ali, in the ring in Las Vegas Wednesday night, should have taken 24-year-old Spinks, © but he gave away the early rounds as part of an ill-fated Ali remembered even in defeat | battle plan that grossly over- estimated his own eroded skills and underestimated the youth, drive, determination and physical condition of the challenger. The knowledge that he was beaten as much by his own’ tactical failure as by his op- ponent, plays no small part in his decision to ask for a rematch. Ali, may yet become the only heavyweight champion ever to regain the title a third time.: Nevertheless, it was obvious . Wednesday night, as it had been in his other recent fights, that Ali was ready to be taken. He came up empty in the fourteenth and fifteenth rounds, an ominous sign of further deterioration. No matter how bad he had looked in recent fights, he had always managed to find hidden reserves in the last two rounds. Wednesday night they seemed to be gone for ever. Of course, he should retire, in fact, he should really have retired a year or two ago, but, like other great athletes, he finds it hard to admit that it’s over. And it is especially difficult to quit when there are still millions of dollars to be made by going on. The thing is that Ali has nothing Me to gain by fighting any moré,| except money. He has proven a there is to prove. | The racist boxing establish) ment cringed when he changed!) his name — from Cassius Clay — | but Muhammad Ali forced them) to accept him on his own terms: | He took on all comers and beat} them. i They took away three years of | his prime for his _ heroiC) resistance to the draft in 1967, | and he still came back to be the] greatest champion of them all. | These are things which cannot} be taken away or dismissed. They are a glorious part of the} American sports heritage, of the | history of our times. Perhaps that | is what made the final round} Wednesday so painful.