1979_03 The Daily Collegian March 1979

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Virtue and vice entwined in 'Country Wife9
"He who aims by the ladies to be prized, must first, you
see, by the men be despised.'
Pleading eunuch but practicing pervert, CSUF student
Steve Martin, as the lead character in the John Wright
Theatre production of "The Country Wife,' put his all into
last week's opening performance, proving beyond a doubt
that 'blatant is beautiful.'
Martin is the scandalous Mr. Horner in this delightfull
17th century play that ponders the differences between wife
and wench and the necessity of both. There was no question¬
ing the glee with which he played the role of an Englishman
lust back from France and reputedly much less a man than
when he left.
But no one loves the ladies more than Horner, who secretly
initiated the ugly rumour of his inadequacies, and he sets out
to have his cake and eat it too, so to speak.
Martin is superb— single-mindedly wicked and unabashed¬
ly single-minded But without someone(s) to react so to, he
would have been at a loss, and the various ladies and gents
who both bait his game of deceit and bungle his self-satisfy¬
ing plans complete an evening of farce at its finest.
Robert Beltran plays the neurotic Mr. Pinchwife, a vastly
different character from Beltran's recent "David,* but
almost as successful It is his newly acquired spouse who is
the country wife, and upon making the mistake of bringing
her into London, his purpose in life becomes one of constant
protection - not of his wife, mind you, but from the ever-
present threat of being cuckholded, a fate worse than death
and certainly longer lasting.
Squeaky-voiced and pigeon-toed, Marta Hagen is the ir¬
resistible Mrs. Margery Pinchwife. Of last semester's 'Lit¬
tle Murders' fame (directed by Steve Martin), Hagen is the
perfect country wife - dumb, dressed in pink, and submis¬
sively pushed around until one day when she will be pushed
no more. That is when the trouble begins and the fun starts
and if Martin is the blatant, Hagen is the beautiful.
As London's evils are unveiled to this naive country bump¬
kin, the country wife is unveiled by Hagen and such charac
ter development right on stage adds a touch of tenderness
to this otherwise hilariously blunt show. Also deserving
mention is the effeminate (yes, that was the style) Mr. Spark-
ish 'Sir," whose character is as his name implies, effectively
played by Phillip Douglas (also, by the way, of "Little Murd¬
ers"). His tall slender frame flaunting mauve feathers and a
ridiculous sword, Douglas keeps to his part as a man who
would have another kiss his betrothed before his very eyes
and then prance off with a lady on his arm.
Virtue and vice get wonderfully entwined in "The Country
Wife." And despite a slightly slow beginning, the results are
deliciously daring.
Carolyn van Schaik
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Book Review
The war of the privates
=Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor ^ ^
I would like to applaud Mr Jacobs
for his article in the Feb. 21 issue of
the Collegian, which called attention
to a problem that has been a thorn in
my side for quite awhile. Why? I
couldn t find a parking space because
all those other people had already
parked there
Yes, the same thing has happened
to me. In fact, I fully understand Mr.
Jacobs on this dilemma. It's bad
enough to miss class once because of
other people's thoughtlessness, but I
haven't been able to attend since the
spring semester of 1975. Who do
those people think they are anyway?
And what gives them the right to the
only suitable spaces on campus?
i Story Penthouse
Well, I do have a solution to this
problem (outside of my own reserved
space). Let's have them bury the
whole school and put a parking lot on
top with  signs over each building.
That way a student could drive to his
department and park right over the
building. This would keep people
(especially me) from having to walk
too far to class. Besides, who needs
all that grass and trees anyway. My
alternative would be to institute valet
parking for instructors and grad. stu¬
dents. At least it would give the little
people something to do.
R.A. Fisher
PS. What ever happened to Wonder
Warthog?
FIELDS OF FIRE
James Webb
Prentice Hall S9.9S
(Book courtesy of B. Datton's Book¬
store, Fashion Fair.)
In the remaining years uf the 1970s,
movie makers and novelists are finally
getting around to telling the story of
the. Viet Nam era. Movies such as The
Deerhunter and Coming Home do not
tell of heroes, generals or a known
There is no John Wayne lead¬
ing a charge up/down a hill.
James Webb's new novel. Fields of
Fire, tells of the disgrace of the war,
which there was plenty, and of the
honor, which was very little. It tells of
the typical fighting man in a very
untypical situation. Viet Nam wasn't a
war of officers. It was the war of the
Webb, a much decorated soldier,
and a lieutenant with the Fifth Marine
Regiment in Viet Nam, draws on his
nine months "in the bush' for his infor¬
mation. The book is painfully realistic
and shamefully believable.
It focuses on two fronts, the one
overseas and the one at home. The men
of Delta Company at An Hoa (known as
Dying Delta) are the characters, and as
Lt Robert E Lee Hodges is a leader
that they can all respect - he comes
into this battle, like his father before
him, prepared to die.
Snake has been in the bush the
longest. He knows the bush like he
knew the ghetto back home. When his
time is almost up, he re-enlists because
he doesn' t know what he will do >n the
civilian world
The list is as long as the list of those
killed in action, each one contributing
either their life or their sanity to a war
no one understands.
From battle to bivouac, the novel
tells the painful story of every soldier
who fought in Viet Nam, making this
the most important book of the year,
possibly of the decade.
Webb's first book, Field* ol Fire has
been compared to All Quiet on the
Western Front and The Naked and The
Dead. But iust as there is no compari¬
son to the Viet Nam war, Field, of Fire
stands by itself in tribute to those who
died and to those who didn' t.
- Don Schlienz
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Okrent discusses danger of nuclear power plants
From Page 2
The danger from this type of accident
would be very modest to the public,
Okrent said.
A more serious accident would be
one in which a hole was blown in the
reactor compartment, releasing radio¬
activity into, the surrounding area.
Okrent said even if that kind of accident
were to occur, 'nobody living off the
site of the reactor would be subjected
to a large dose of radiation, the kind
that would lead to an early radiation
fatality,' (a death within the first year
of the accident).
Okrent said that core meltdown
accidents are unlikely. And even if a
core meltdown did occur, protection
devices, such as emergency core cool¬
ing, would also have to fail in order for
a serious accident to occur.
'That is a relatively unlikely situa¬
tion,* Okrent said.
Determining the probability of a core
meltdown is difficult because, as Ok¬
rent said, it has never occured, Okrent
said one has to use 'analytical methods
if he wants to estimate this, and there
will be uncertainties incidental of those
But according to Okrent, the chance
of a core meltdown is "once in a few
thousand years." And the chance of it
re-occurring is 'once in a few hundred
thousand years," he said.
'The most serious accidents are all
related to the core having melted,'
Okrent said, but he added that Just
because the core melts that doesn't
mean there will be an accident.
If a core should melt, Okrent said the
fuel core would melt through the bot¬
tom of the reactor vessel (a contain¬
ment structure). Some radioactivity
would be released within the reac¬
tor complex, but most of the fuel and
radioactivity would melt into the earth
Okrent said the fuel would probably
melt to a depth of 80 feet (this melting
into the earth is often referred to as
"The China Syndrome", meaning it
could, as the saying goes, burn a hole
to China).
On nuclear vaste, Okrent also felt
there was a degree of risk, but that it
was negligible compared to the risks
of waste oroducts we put in the earth.
"The probable rislf from radioactive
waste storage.. is very small compared
to...risks from the chemicals that we
are disposing of every day in the state
of California and this country," he said.
Okrent said radioactive waste is a
hazardous material and should be
treated as such. He added that he
"wished people would treat other haz¬
ardous materials as carefully as I
think they're ready to treat radioactive
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Hearing loss course offered
An internationally famous expert
in the field of birth defects. Dr. Robert
Gorlin, will conduct a weekend exten¬
sion course at CSUF, March 17-18 on
the topic, 'Genetic and Metabolic
Hearing Loss Syndrome.'
The course is one of a series of
workshops being offered for profes¬
sionals in the field of communicative
disorders. It will be conducted from
8 am to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, March
17, and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday,
March 18, in room 101 of the Phebe
Conley Art Building.
Gorlin, who began his career as a
dentist, is currently the chairman of
the Division of Oral Pathology at the
University of Minnesota where last
year he was awarded the Regents'
Professorship.
He has authoreibnore than 300 pub¬
lications and isajVbgnized as an out¬
standing lecturers the field of birth
defect syndromes.
His workshop at CSUF will include
basic genetics and the presentation of
actual patients representing specific
syndromes. Characteristic physical
features will be discussed and review¬
ed through the use of slides.
Tuition for the workshop is $37. For
additional enrollment information,
contact Walter Teague in the CSUF
Department of Communicative Dis¬
orders, telephone 487-2443.
THIS IS THE WEEK-
Petitions are now available for candidates
wishing to run in the Associated Students Election
April 3,4,5. They are obtainable this week
at the Dean of Student Affairs Office.
The Petitions must be turned in by 5 pxn. March 9
at the Same Office.
Books bought and sold
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