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Travelii perforrr By CHUCK CRC?MER Entertainment Page Editor Pegasus, an independent, t Angeles, will stage its main perf 8:30 tonight and tomorrow night Throughout the week, Pegast and dancer Jeanette Triomphe magic, mime, and dancing a philosophy of the troupe. "Reflections in Flight" bl< described the production as a "p as a "search for those experien becoming aware of life and de "Reflections in Flight" is b periences as he hitchhiked a era 70's. Pegasus continues to tra received after performances. ABC THEATRE discount tick $1.50 at the Russell House travc per cent savings and are good theatres. THE RUSSELL House Uni Committee will sponsor John Mi for National Security Studies, in "The CIA and the Cult of Intel Russell House ballroom. Ed McCall, chairman of the discuss the CIA mechanisms iu that ignore and undermine Ame the democratic system at horn Many students see the CIA as relevance to campus life. Marl said, "The CIA today operates s college campuses in ways that Hundreds of American professc main task is "spotting and 1 students studying at our univei AN ART EXHIBIT, featuring ning Avenue Free Studio in Si Friday at the South Carolina Nat in Columbia. Twenty silkscreen, block, j exhibited and available for pur mission. A percentage of each i further the education of art stu RADIO STATION WZ)J>, FB features of both national and lo p.m., Alison Steele, interviews during her 25-minute shows. He cock and Wah Wah Watson. After Steele's show at 10:30 ] and Their Songs" hosted by no profiles the works of such artists gives in-depth analysis of parti songs of David Bromberg this WZLD will profile the music i Pips at 10 p.m., Tuesday, Mar THE COLUMBIA Museum of ovkikit 04 ? 1? " rx_ ? ?i caihuu tnmaic's uy ur. marj Museum will host an illustrated of Mosaics" at 8 p.m. tomorro Dr. Kreilick, an art professor varied selection of mosaics f mosaics, photographs, and ske She calls mosaic "the art o pictures with tesserae set in Kreilick said the art of mosaics' ago and mosaics were used extc ancient civilizations. IN CONJUNCTION with Dr. museum is leaiunng tne loam s Exhibition, with a showcase of 5> "best produced" from the socie The watercolor show will includ Pike, and Philip Jamison and v BECAUSE OF an "overwhel Planetarium, housed within th "Space by the Tale" through N p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. A< cents for children. THE RHUU Cinematic Arts 4,The Sailor Who Fell From Gn and Kris Kristofferson. The fi Saturday at 7 and 9:30 p.m. in th AN EXHIBIT of the life and i Hermann Hesse will he on disp! through Monday. o" ? < * lg troupe 1 is tonight raveling theatre troupe from Los ormance, "Reflections In Flight," at in the Russell House ballroom, is, consisting of actor David Avadon , mis uwii conaucung worKshops on round USC to teach students the ;nds dance and theatre. Avadon erformance of vignettes of life," and ces that help a person come of age, ath." ased on Avadon's travels and exss the United States during the early vel, supported solely by donations ets can be purchased by students for si center. These tickets provide a 50 at the Palmetto and Richland Mall versity Union's Ideas and Issues irks, executive director of the Center > a free lecture-film discussion called lligence" at 8 p.m.. March 3 in the committee, said "the program will led to interfere with other countries rican processes and pose a threat to e." i a distant, abstract issue with little is believes this is a misnomer. He ecretly on over a hundred American directly touch the lives of students, irs secretly work for the CIA. Their lelping to recruit as spies foreign rsities." the works of artists from the Maniimter. will be on disDlav through ional Bank at Main and Lady streets and mixed-media prints will be chase through the S. C. Arts Com?ale will be donated to the studio to idents. 4-96, is presenting weekly musical cal origin.Sunday evenings at 10:05 i artists and highlights their work ir guests this week are Herbie Hanp.m., WZLD presents "Hie Singers ted local musicial Lee Knight, who as Bob Dvlan and Steeleve Scan and cular albums. Knight examines the Sunday night. tnd career of Gladys Knight and the ch I. Art, at Senate and Bull streets, will [orie Kreilick through March 2. Hie lecture by Dr. Kreilick on "The Art w. at the University of Wisconsin, has a or her show, including sculptural tches. r technique of creating designs or a mastic or a plastic grout." Dr. was practiced as early as 5,000 years tnsively in Greek, Reman, and other Kreilick's Friday night lecture, the innual American Watercolor Society f\ llin4AMU%lAM MA1AA4<UI AH fltA i/ it aiucu waiu tuiui a awcvicu ao uic ty's annual exhibition in New York, e the works of Robert Vickery, John rill be on display through March 12. ming public response," the Gibbes e museum, will continue shows of larch 25. Show times are 2:30 and 4 Emission is 75 cents for adults and 50 Committees pay film this week is see With the Sea," with Sarah Miles ilm will be shown tonight through e Russell House theatre. vorks of Nobel Prize-winning author lay in the Russell House main lobby - v^ Hpfc*y^ The Dock Street Theatre in Ch Charleston he The Spoleto Festival in Charleston this summer features four educational programs and one improvisational art festival. The educational programs include: a mini-course on the Spoleto Festival at College of Charleston from March 16-April 13, May courses for college credit, noncredit apprentice courses, and Roots From page 12 charges"; and bucks, "bestial superstuds." ABC'S "ROOTS". maintains these stereotypes, yet rationalizes that the misconceptions are played with more dignity and stronger character. Thus we view toms and coons (nearly every slave except Kunta Xinte), mulattos (Chicken George), mammies (Belle), and bucks (Tom Murray, the blacksmith) throughout the 'Nadia' haft NAOIA: THE SUCCBM SBCRRT8 OP TMB AMAZINO ROMANIAN OYMNAST. By Ion Orwniu. Ttm K. S. OWpr Co., Inc., 1*77. 177 pay*. M.H papertwck. By BETH HILL Editorial Page Editor "Nadia" is a personality profile ahmit Nflrfifl Hnmanopi Ku Inn ^ wrj AVi* Grumeza, a fellow Romanian. Hie author explains the success of the teenage gymnast by leading his readers from the beginning of Comaneci's career at the age of six through the international acclaim that followed her perfect performances at the 1978 Olympic 3raSfc8SWf^I^Jms^l^wy: I MvfiBJPn j ^ BE |p| J j *, B arleston is the site for several 1 >sts art, educs cooperation with other colleges in administering courses at the festival. The arts festival will utilize the city's historic churches and parks for exhibits. A grand finale is scheduled for the Middleton Place, the plantation with America's 1 1 - umcai luuuscapea garaens. Local residents are planning to house some of the 50,000 expected visitors production, all stereotypes. "Roots" is to blacks in 1977 what the film "Birth of a Nation" was to whites in 1915: an outrageous lie that creates emotional duress through racial prejudice. In "Birth of a Nation", D. W. Griffith depicted blacks as ignorant, filthy buffoons, insanely desiring the flesh of virgin white girls. WHITES BECAME so outraged by the film's blacks (actually whites in blackface) in 1915 that they sometimes shot up theatre screens. interesting games. Because the book is written by another Rumanian rpoHoro expect Grumeza to write one glowing adjective after another about Comaneci's feats. The author does just that, but he also includes a negative aspect of Comaneci's demeanor. "She is far too serious," he writes. Millions of people watched Comaneci during the Olympics and marvelled at her somber countenance. Her face showed intense concentration on her work, as she rarelv danced at the the other gymnasts. * "Yet this attitude is to be expected. Anybody who works that hard will naturally become serious," Grumeza writes. "Her coaches taught her how to control her emotions, her nervousness, and ho* worries; taught her how to concentrate on her performance and on nothing else. She was taught to be serious and calm when, in fact, her first impulses were no different than anyone else's-to be nervous and try to have a little fun. "Many experts simply state that Nnriia hn? nn ann((am i>? extremely positive ones. Her emotions are not inhibitory, not destructive; they do not cause her to become discouraged. She knows bow to cushion her nerves; she is sure of herself in any situation." Comaneci follows a strict it P|11 f * ^HK> ctT A^ jMr ^ ?BH B ?&, < nonnHii'^ Spoleto Festival events ition festival at the festival, May 25-June 5. A drink has been concocted in honor of the festival that resembles a mint julip. Ticket, program and accomodation information can be obtained by writing Spoleto Festival, U.S.A., P. O. box 157, Charleston, S. C. 29402 or calling (803 ) 722-2764. ABCs "Roots" takes the opposite extreme. The inept and cruel white man is outwitted and chastised in the conclusion for treating blacks so badly. The ramifications of both dramatizations are the same: racial hatred. The propaganda of ABC's "Roots" backfired in the final analysis. White society is expected to bear guilt, ? ut many experience outrage at the false stereotyping. Thus there is no understanding at all of the black experience. anecdotes schedule as a member of Marta and Bela Karoll's gymnastics class in Onesti, Romania. Her daily A? At ? wvtkuuui are uiree nours long and meet of ber vacations are spent training in sports camps. At camp she and her teammates spend six hours daily working on their routines. Grumeza adds several interesting anecdotes to the book's commentary. He describes Comaneci as a "problem child" before beginning gymnastic lessons, fighting with neighborhood boys and breaking four sofas by jumping on the springs. He depicts the Comaneci home on the night of her final competition for gold in the 1976 Olympics. Her father was calculating Comaneci's medal possibilities in each remaining event, and the family could hardly breathe as they waited for the news of their daughter's success. People called to congratulate them, and they were recognized and embraced on the street by strangers and friends. The book also includes many sketches and photos of Comanecl's routines. These add tremendously to Grumeza's written descriptions. Seeing Comaned as she performs on the balance beam, vault, uneven ' parallel bars, and in the floor exercises is the final word on her f ' t success secrets: her undeniable/ skill and grace. / /, \ /