The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, April 25, 1958, Page Page Four, Image 4
SUE SANDERS
for Graham Proffitt
PEGGIE BUSBY
for John Castanes
Cozzens'
Is A Stud
"I do not understand music, I
am little interested in art, and
the theatre seems tiresome to me.
My literary preferences are for
writers who take the trouble to
write well." These are the con
victions of James Gould Cozzens,
Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
Cozzens is a strange, quasi
understood artist. He would
rather have had some other pro
fession, for Cozzens knows his
deceased father would have
thought writing a weak occupa
tion. The "woman behind the
man" in Cozzens' case was his
mother; she made a bookish boy
of her son, and his now attained
stature was the pot of gold which
she sought during Cozzens'
youth.
Swift Fan
While at Harvard, Cozzens
wrote his first novel, Con fuaion
(1924), which he considers his
most perfect work. Hemingway,
Sinclair Lewis, Faulkner, Stein
beck, and the writing,s of the
'thirties are all criticized blas
phemously by Cozzens--his fav
orite: Jonathan Swift.
Since his first novel in 1924,
he has written 12. Cozzens feels
that he did not hit his stride'
until his fifth novel. His best
known work is Guard of Honor,
which won him the Pulitzer Prize
in 1948 and which is an analysis
of a soldier; others have con
cerned a doctor, a minister, and,
his latest, a lawyer.
-Study of Love
This latest novel, released in
the fall of 195'?, Is titled By Love
Possessed. It Is an intense study
of love in all its forms that man
possesses. Cozzens' novel has as
its main character Arthur Win
ner, a small town attorney and
confidant to everyone there. Win.
ner Is made saintly which takes
away from this character's re
alism; even so, the other Inhabi
tants of the town arp as real as
any could be.
Even though the author's sen
tence structure is heavy and am
biguous in sections and In whole
chapters, his style is a joy to de
cipher. Cozsens' style was one
as clear as crystal, but now it
has become. bubble filled. Loe Is
one of the few modern novels
that compels Its reader to put
forth some effort to grasp it.
PressionaI Man
It Is definitely more tha a
on Is T
The Carolina Cotillion Club
will hold Its annual Spring Dance
tonight from 8 til 12 in the Hotel
Wade Hampton Ballroom. Jimmy
Farr and his orchestra will pro
vide the music for the evenidug.
The Cotillion Club is composed
of members from 12 social fra
ternities on campus. Officers of
Cotillion are Graham Proffitt,
president; George Nettles, vice
president; Jqhn Castanes, secre
tary; Dick Stanland, treasurer;
and BIl Cain, dance chairman.
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SUZANNE STANLAND
. . . for Dick Stanland
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y Of Lovo
coincidence that Cozzens was the
same age of his main character
when he wrote Love.
Considering that Cozzens dis
likes Sinclair Lewis intensely, it
is interesting to note the fact
that By Love Possessed is oppo
site in treatment to Lewis' Bab
bitt. In Babbitt, its main charac
ter represents the typicality of
a professional man of the 'twen
James Gould Coinuens
ties, and Lone illustrates how a
lawyer fights against being typi
cal of his town's inhabitants. One
wonders during the course of
reading Cozzens' novel if Arthur
Winner can keep up his battle
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ELIZABETH HAZELHURST
. . . for Bill Cain
ovel
to the end, but the significance
of the character's last name
might reveal the victor.
By Love Posseesed should un
doubtedly receive the Pulitzer
Prize this year. Booth Tarking
ton has been the only novelist
to have gotten this award twice.
This reviewer believes Cozzens
will join Tarkington via this
masterwork.
Not Revised
It is heartwarming for a
reader to know that he is reading
substantially the identical penned
thoughts of the author and that
the book has not been almost
re-written by the publisher. It
has been vowed that the novel
in print is the same as the
copy handed to the publishers by
Cozzens. Even then only a third
of the book was published, be
cause the author destroys two of
every three pages he writes.
Reader's Digest has paid a
large sum to have the rights to
condense this novel, and a motion
picture corporation has likewise
obtained rights to film it. There
will be a great deal heard of By
Love Possessed in the near fu
ture.
James Gould Cozzens has been
quoted to have said, "I am a her
mit and have no friends." Soon
his seclusion will be interrupted
by his demanding public and his
great novel will win him a great
many friends.
-M. Byars
.THE EXCITEMENt OF SAN
HES OF SANTA BARBARA...
ENTO VALLEY
California, you have a unique
u can participate in graduate
ition workshops and seminars
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New Dan
Has Beer
Kappa Alpha, Sigma All
Sigma Nu social fraternities
of a new dance organization,I
society has been organized
winter formal dance and a s
the society is limited to the
Clotworthy
Attends
Conference
Dean of Women, Elizabeth M.
Clotworthy, has recently returned
from the semi-annual meeting of
the Defense Advisory Committee
on Women in the Services which
was held at the Sheraton-Park
Hotel in Washington.
The purpose of the committee
is to provide the Department of
Defense with assistance and ad
vice on matters relating to women
in the service, and to interpret
to the public the need for and
the role of women in the armed
services, Dean Clotworthy said.
The committee is composed of
civilian women, selected on the
basis of their national standing
in business, the professions, and
in civic or public life, with due
regard to geographical represen
tation. The members serve as in
dividuals and not as official rep
resentatives of any group or or
ganization with which they may
be affiliated, she said.
MEXICAN CRITIC
SPEAKS AT EMORY
Dr. Justino Fernandez, art his
torian and critic from the Na
tional University of Mexico, lec
tured at Emory University on
April 8 and 10. The two illus
trated lectures were open to the
public.
-The Emory Wheel
Nuclear Symposium
Carolina's nuclear engineering
symposium will begin tonight at
7:00 with industrial nuclear ex
hibits and films being shown in
Russell House. The public is in
vited to attend the meetings to
night and tomorrow.
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we Club
i Formed
iha Epsilon, Sigma Chi, and
iave announced the formation
he Westphalian Society. This
ror the purpose of having a
pring-formal. Membership In
members of the four frater
nities.
Each fraternity has a senior
and a junior representative with
the senior representatives serv
ing as the officers of the organ
ization. Officers for this spring
are Preston Whaley (Sigma
Nu), president; Edgeworth Price
(Kappa Alpha), vice-pregident;
Robert Withers (Sigma Chi),
secretary-treasurer; and Julian
Adams (Sigma Alpha Epsilon),
dance chairman.
The junior representatives are
Charlie Jackson (KA); Nicky
Moore (,SAE); Charlie Way
(Sigma Chi); and Don Allen
(Sigma Nu). .
This spring's dance will be
held on May 28 at the Jefferson
Hotel ballroom. Jimmy Farr and
his orchestra will furnish the
music.
SAS Elects,
Initiates
Sigma Alpha Sigma, honorary
secretarial science fraternity, re
cently held its monthly meeting
at which time plans were made
for the annual banquet to be
held this month.
Initiated at the meeting were
Grace Adams, Mary Anderson,
Saunda Carney, Zenith Hallman,
Lynne Morrison, and Ann Wylie.
Betty Iigram was elected
president for next year. Also
elected were Alice Enright, vice
president; Ann Vickery, secre
tary-treasurer; Kay Sutton, cor
responding secretary; Lynne
Morrison, historian; and Carol
Mays, reporter.
Language Day
Over 800 high school students
of French and Spanish are ex
pected on the Carolina campus
today for the first Modern Lan
guage Day.
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By BMILY M06UTCHN
The SAE's celebrated with the Lion's Ball Saturday
night. Delta of USC, Gamma of Wofford, and Phi of Fur
man were represented. The special guests were Mr.' and
Mrs. Stanford of Portland, Maine. Jack Taylor and Joyce
Saunders, Rick Harrison and Polly Price, Frank Beattie
and Kaye Lemon, and, of course, Pete Martin and Evelyn
LaBruce, were among those in a'ttendance.
SPE's
Last Saturday night, the Sigma Phi Epsilon District
Ball was held in Charlotte, N. C. Seven Sig Ep Chapters
from North Carolina and one Chapter from South Carolina
were represented at the dance. Some of the Carolina Sig
Eps present were: Paul Gaye and Sybil McNeil (ZTA),
Lightening Morris and June MacCauley (ZTA), Nils Jensen
and Becky Finlay (Pi Phi), and John Kenney and Jean
Riley (ZTA). *
Lambda Chi's
Lambda Chi had a party last Friday night at the Mel
Rujan Room. Seen there were Zeke Tolly and Carolyn Smith,
Hal Tyler and Anna Chaplin, Alan Edney and Sandra Calla
han, Bob Coward and Dee Chandler.
If you happened to drop by the Phi Sig house Saturday
night, you would have seen Gerald Hill -and Miff Fisher,
Wayne Pack and Barbara Hawthorne and many other DZ's
and Phi Sigs dressed appropriately for a "Shipwreck
Party.".
ZETA's
The Zeta's took a vacation from school work last Thurs
day to perform their Stunt Night act at Clemson for the
Clemson Junior Follies. Some of the girls traveling to
Clemson were Alice Pruitt, Anna Boswell, Gracie Adams,
Debbie Norris and Ann Vickery.
Barry Goldstein and Janice Jaffee, Murray Danz and
Ellen Solomon, Ralph Hornick and Judy Stone, Norm
Karshmer and Lyn Roseman, Bob Roseman and Libby
Bloom, among others attended the Phi Ep's 30th Anni
versary Formal Saturday night.
Phi Kappa Sigma's
The Phi Kaps are planning a big party at Teague's Lake
tomorrow. Among those expected to be out are Tom Mc
Lean and Linda McDonald, George Bennett and Linda
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