| Show Page 2 Student Life — Utah State University The Physicist The Scene What to do Where to Go at USU A Success? presented By Review of ‘The Physicists’ BY CHARLES S SIMMONS is quite possible that the appreciation of dramatic merit in Duerrenmatt’s The Physicists will always be superceeded by enthusiasm or its lack generated by the discursive elements of the play No amount of intellec-tua- l response or enjoyment of the little bits of humor and irony can subsititude for this deeper appreciation where in the real impact of the play lies If any thing the overt dialogue of the play is distracting Compared with the language of other dramatists there is nothing arresting about such lines as ‘What was once thought can never be and ‘The (engineers) treat electricity as a pimp treats a whore It Duerrenmatt is not a great playwright nor his play The Physicists a great play The play however is a good play a play as a play an ach ievement for a dramatist who deals principally in ideas In judging a play we judge what is said through dramatic form otherwise we may look to the play’s rhetoric for its content in which case a particular play could be dismissed if its rhetoric were found unexciting or not impossible in The Physicists Duerrenmatt merely reiterates the attitude expressed in Brecht’s Galileo that ‘the sound of cheering at some new scientific achievement should be echoed by a universal sub-stanti- stale-someth- Summer Employment Students interested in summer jobs at Glacier Ynmu Yellow’ stone and Utah Parks should make application earlv r6SSeS and other information is available at the Placement Center Personal interviews for employment with the Grand Company will be conducted in the Placement Center iJSf Lodge 6 March or early April Exact dates will be announced later ®’ Campus Employer '69 Feb 4 Feb 69 3- -4 Feb 5 Feb 4- -5 '69 Academic Backgrounds Sale River Project Naval Ship Missile System Goodyear Tire 6 Rubber Seattle First Nat'l Bank ' Hartford Insurance Group v Chicago Bridge 6 Iron j American Oil Co 5- -6 Feb 6 Feb '69 Drinh Diet Pepsi - someone will be vvdtdhing EE EE EE Bus Ado Lawrence Radiation Lab Hoffman Electronics Corp US Geological Survey Texaco Naval Weapons General EE CE Center - Convair Dynamics Boise Cascade 7 Feb '69 ME EE ' Co CE MfgE LlbArt Corp Moines Pflser Laboratories Mgot Trlnlng Ptotru lnbusln- "'- Math Chea Geology MfgE ProdMgt ME Physics Math EE CE MfgE HydroE BusAdm CE ME EE ME Bus Plttsburgh-De- s Acctg Physic Steel Geology ME EE ProdMgt Craphlc Art Kaiser Steel - ME EE Any background for galea saleaMgat CE ME Soil Geology AgEcon DalryScl FoodSci Acctg gw ‘ ProdMgt Econ EE ME MfgE Co ve Physics £ TVurlT' 6 Gamble Montana Highway jComoi Colgate-Palmoli- ME ME Procter Carnation EE ME CE ME Bus Education Scl SocScl Acctg Agr LlbArts Acctg Structural Design NatResources Beware of illusions The horse that takes off at a brave gallop may actually be going in circles And so may you if you mount an unalterably defined career one that goes ’round and ’round the same course forever Your ultimate success may lie in a different direction in a field you are not now even considering That is why the company you select is important why Convair can be important to you Much of Convair’s varied work lies in developing totally new aero- horror’ The Physicist has its own bias phemy however something not said in so many words but found underlying the recitals and of Einstein and Newton Take the recital of Newton’s ‘I am Newton Sir Isacc New! ton Born the 4th of January 1643 at Woolsthorpe near Gran! tham I am president of the Royal Society etc Then Einstein’s confessional con-fessio- Often there are no precedents What you will be working on five years from now may not exist— even in idea form —today But you can be sure of one thing: The work will com- ‘I love my fellow man and I love my violin but it was on my recommendation that they build the atomic bomb’ The play does not attack the memories of the real Newton and Einstein The indictment rather scourching is levelled at the situation in which personal human feelings are rendered impotent by pious verbal attitudes and the contexts-politic- al religious that create a rh etoric deadly enough to obliter-atall hope of communication There are a few good plays that will never be successfully produced a great play will be producable Perhaps The Physicists a good play willnev-e- r be successfully produced The Repretory Theater of Lincoln Center failed in its production of Duerrenmatt’s The Marriage of Mr Mississippi because of a failure to make the experience of ideology real The group’s so-ci- -- e al-wa- director Herbert Blau pointed out that the failure was probably due to the strain of the effort to fill out emotionally an argu-methat might have been more immediately engaging if played nt more dispassionately failure of the USU pro-ductio- n was a failure to see The Physicists as a drama that takes place in the brain It is ideas and not characters or personalities that debate in Duerrenmatt Unfortunately the way to do justice to Duerrenmatt involves the risk of boring the audience The temptation to spice his plays is to be avoided is no publicist like Brecht nor does he have the flare of a Shaw Fussing over his pro ductions leads inevitably to over Duer-renma- acting Feb 3 ing howl of The Interviews Date tt space concepts Carousel career or the horse that went ’round and ’round bine your talents and our needs and that is the surest path to success We add a third ingredient to ' make the first two even more meaningful: Recognition and reward for achievement And we encourage individual progress through several educationa- ograms at nearby unive- l-assistance pr- rsities If you are determined to build a reputation in the aerospace industry to be individually recognized and amply rewarded don’t start your career on a carousel Your future is at stake Career opportunities exist in the following disciplines: aeronautical civil electricalelectronic and mechanical engineering ing mechanics engineer- engineering physics and engineering science Our representative will be on Campus soon Contact your Placement Officer to arrange an interview appointment or write to: Mr J J Tannone Supervisor Professional Placement and Personnel Convair Division of General Dynamics 5330 Kearny Villa Road San Diego California 92112 GENERAL- - DYNAMICS Convair Division An Equal Opportunity Employer Ph |
