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Show i'v) Ton Getiifig I ' " . SmM'"Oi" vVisctonti ' -- XoiJ-iIl: Sf' - J L . : ,j . ' ' ; . I J ,' ,' . , . -'-- National Library Week begins, a notedducator reminds us that .books store the treasures of our .culture .and thaT toWderstand our world we must understand matpulture ou don't have to read all the so-called great books to be a cultured prrTBerrisn't much sense in racing against time to read all the great poets, playwrights, novelists, philosophers. But unless you know some of them, and know them fairly well, you Will never come to know yourself fully, or the world around you. Foriraml)Ie7wKaTothese names mean to you omer, Sophocles, .Plato, Virgil, Cicero, Augustine, Dante, Erasmus, Shakespeare, Milton? In- scriptions on library walls? Or just rich, beautiful names packed with associations, yet remote? If they are only names to you, then your, sense -H- jjOhastJsQLxerjr not . present is very clearrYoir haveHbeenheated of your full share of wisdom and have missed -someeeplyatisfying -- experiences What are the special insights of the men whose names loom so large on library walls? Are they in precisely the same areas as the self-hel- p books that promise so much and deliver so little? . No, these deal with love and friendship, and the lusts of youth, and the torments of old age, with the suffering caused by war and the suffering that does not cease with peace, with the urge to faith and theatisfacUonsno4heigicultie3 BARRY ULANOV By Associate Frolessor ot tngnsn, ways, either openly or by example, that we can meet both. hefraWfnary perception introductioiithejQbiem The second is an uncommonly absorbing chronicle of events fromthe endrVVorTd"WarlTothe New Deal. The third may be the most balanced and compassionate examination of the problems of Barnard College. Columbia University useful wisdom, thought, and opinion. We go to St. Augustine's "Confessions" for the kind of that set a standard searching not only for autobiography but for literature philosophy, and theology for more than a thou- years, and still knows few equals. We turn self-examinat- Southerners that we are ever likely to get, at ' least in the formo a novels d For a fuller awareness of what this era two two novels. tains, let me suggest plays and ion TdiclToittTcb Friendship" and "On Old Age" con-san- ATrtuirlhBkhTwV shows how amusingly and how pitifully so many of us spend ourlUvesJ:aMngJhroughatheiLthan to, each other. T. S. Eliot's "The Cocktail Party" (1950) suggests some ways to a consoling peace, even for the unloving and the unlovable, and does for incalculable wisdom on JxthvitaLsub jects- Dante's "Divine Comedy" provides a lifetime's reading. There isn't a single type of human being missings all the virtues and all the vices are as much again in dsflma-xadence- Makes peitjsMlaysr: Plague" (1947) is an allegory of the Nazi occupa tion ofFrance; though it deals with depressing events, its abiding virtue is hope. The last volume, not exactly of our time, is FeodojDostoyevsky "The Possessed" (1872).It is anlncomparable examination of communists Ule-age- But what about the mas- terpieces of our own time? In this age of sickness and health, of unequalled scien- - Barry Ulanov tifieachievementncNun- - of the humanists? What books have we here? No time has debated its nrnhlAms and Rifti APA communism. It is a propheticoQkJwritten, so long before the accession of the communists in Russia, a profoundly discerning one, and a superb example of the kind of wisdom contained IS UW U1X5 LalVIIlg JLllV ICS3UUS Ul (JitllCUCC, SlCalUaSt- - ness, and determination that come from' Homer's "Odyssey" and Virgil's "Aeneid," with the accent on married love in the case of Ulysses, the hero of the Greek epic, and upon love of country in manu ina " ""--" .j vrr 101701a . 20th-centu- ry ,oe,w ttixtr- PaSna' iiiaaoiic . Adams!LH9Q71Jnhnlw l ... . a ...:iir-jrrrkv u.o.x4. iwruien iTom lyou to lyooj ,ana WH- jr, mj vv-sKr- uvo v nnmon onri n iirini imm mwu uuw ivc that in Plato's "Symposium," a Thomas Mann's "Magic Mountain" (1924), and Boris Pasternak's "Dr. Zhivago" (1958). These three works range across a remarkably extensive chunk of thought and opinion. As much can be discovered again of America and Americans in "The Education of Henry-- banquet-loa- d of - - It is still another reminder of the prodigious capacities of man and of the materials that youthe f ull -- can-give -- :inenzdffiofcom It3vOTtfc3isefuIl3 radeor braTnistake "to look for them thatway. But there Bernard Shaw's "Man and Superman" (1903), ofJ&eJeading-Bn- g s Hskq3oetGfrmer-- Where can we begin? How, boiitRoixieoantl Juliet for the follies of young love, and "Antony and Cleopatra" for the follies of mid- d love? , pain and of death, and suggest The fir.st is an autobiography and a provocative of wisdom yotr need Free Reading List Offered The books described in the above article are only a few of many which can help make you a more person. Professor Ulanov has an excellent list of such books, books., prepared that wiU entertain, enlighten, and edify you. For WQ&fpWWpY ' I .r. -f .. . zLJ. nrr irmwuir Ajm rrwwn www. ttmt. it itLujr, 13 nnwtfc, ijixr - iyuu, iLtr,LiM nr. g well-round- ed A P.O. Box 77 10, Chicago, expires May 10, 1962. Weekly liam Faulkner's "Absalom, Absalom!" (1936), III. lm. Offer at t,3 COVER: Artist Homer Hill captures the spirit of ESS our national pastime, which launches its 1962 season this week. Making th eir bow-- two new majot4edgW team 'Sfepa'g&lfc April 8, 1962 X LEONARD $. OAVIDOW President and Publisher JYAlIERjrvoiimU$Kica-ciicji- , PATRICK f. O'ROURKI Advertmng Director MORTON FRANK Director of Publisher 153 N. Michigan v Av., Chicago ow 1, 111. Board of Editori ERNEST V. HEYN IEN . KMmAH-Exwume-Edit- Editar.iiU!kUt or- ROBERT FITZGIBBON Manaaina Editor MARGARET BELL Feature Editor PHILLIP DYKSTRA Art Director MELANIE DE PROFT Food Editor London, Jack Ryan; fwvt J. Oppnhimr, Hollywood. - |