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April 18,1980-theDallyConegign-Page5 "■■".■•I Oddities by.Wdmel Fitzgerald Dec 9, 1958: The height of the cold war. Eleven influential men meet in Indianapolis st the invitation Of anti- communist Robert Welch. Welch has hot told the. men the reason for the meeting. Yet the men have come. . . For two days Welch makes a presenta¬ tion. Unless we can reverse forces which now seem inexorable in their movement you have only a few more years before the country in which you live wilt become four separate provinces in a world-wide communist dominion ruled by police state methods from the Kremlin. Welch tells the men that Lenin laid down a plan to 'conquer the world before he died; that for the ensuing 36 years the. communists have patiently and brilliant¬ ly pursued this goal; and that they have achieved such success even in America that our Congress and the Pentagon havebeen infiltrated. Welch then proposes the formation of an international organization, with him¬ self as the leader, to oppose the commu¬ nist conquest. It will .be named after a Georgian Baptist minister, John Birch, who died fighting communists in China shortly after World War II. the' Blue Book of the John Birch Society is the verbatim transcript 'of Welch' s presentation. It is also the Bible of the. John Birch society. The book shows what the Birchers believe in (God), what they stand for (less govern¬ ment and more responsibility), and what they oppose (communism, of course). The book is unwavering in its percep¬ tion of communists ss Evil. Communist leaders are 'beasts...whom we treat as human beings, snd with whom we sit around conference tables and arrive at -oncessions to appease them.' . Accordingly, The Blue Book is gener¬ ally dismissed ss an obsolescent product of the McCarthy era. But the quality of Welch's intellect gives the book some lasting value.. His presentation is bril¬ liantly constructed. Pssssges from great poetry and philosophical thought elevate his talk. Viewed with historical perspective Welch's inright. ' are illuminating whether they hit or miss the mark. His assertion, for instance, that communist peoples live in "virtual slavery' behind the Iron Curtain, and that the over¬ whelming majority of them would revolt against their leaders if given the chance, casts light upon- the mentality of the American leaders prior to the Bay of Pigs debacle. And Welch's attempt to show us the face of the enemy is a passsge of sur¬ prising enlightenment. It is Welch's be¬ lief that communism is not the #1 enemy but only the most immediate one. Our greatest foe, Welch says, is not the com¬ munist, but the .amoral man, be he Russian or American, the man who be¬ lieves in nothing but himself, whose mind has no upward reach, the man who only seeks, through cunning, to advance his own interests. Like Richard Nixon. One of the fringe benefits of The Blue Book is Welch's brief, penetrating portrait of our erst¬ while president st a time when Nixon, fresh from his role in the Alger Hiss affair, was vying for the 1960 Republican presidential nomination. Welch, unimpressed by Nixon's poli¬ tics, perceives in Nixon s man who could oppose or support communism, depend¬ ing on the direction political winds blew: the amoral man. If his perception of Nixon had been generally believed in 1968, America might have been spired some of the turmoil which awaited it fur¬ ther down the road of history. People who believe that ideas should compete freely in the marketplace know that open-mindedness is their shopping cart. John Stuart Mill said that even false arguments help to illuminate the truth, and therefore should be heard. The Blue Book should be read for such truth aa it contains, such inadvertent truths as hindsight enables us to see, and such falsehoods ss we sre likely to believe in again. Review NEED A SUMMER JOB? You may bs sllglbia for s Work- Study iob IMS summer II you com¬ plete your Financial Aids Ilia lor Fall i960 and submit ins summer Work-Study .ppllclion by Msy 2. If your .ligltlillty .Mow.. J£-\ you may bs placed on a ** ' lodarally-subsldired fob lor uplCOhr/wk Dial., a summer job: 800-3311000 Work as a Manpower temporary. Flexible schedules. Good pay. Assignments available in your college town or hometown. Please call, toll free. Q MANPOWER TEMPORARY SEFWCHS Warning: 'Serial' a turkey by Bob McHattor. Everybody's heard about the many lobby groups in the political scene but few realize the same game, is played in the movie business. The most visible lobby group fo Hollywood today is comprised of rep¬ resentatives from each of the fifty states all trying to soil their home ss a perfect place to make movies. After all, location shooting costs around S50.000 a day. Well, there's a new movie out called 'Serial* that ahould have been made somewhere outside of California, if st all. , . To most Americans who live outside of California, the Golden State is a place where orgies, sexual perversity, snd weirdos run rampant. People all over the world see California arid its people through the stereotypes shown in tele¬ vision and the movies.' I hope they miss "Serial.* There's a category for this type of movie. "It's the kind where tears fill your eyes before the opening titles are finished, because you have just forked out four bucks for not only a turkey, but a bad turkey. If you're a -die-hard movie goer, see this one at a matinee, if at'all. One reason guys snd gsls like Clint Eastwood, Dustin Hoffman, and Jackie Bissett are superstars is the fact that they can recognize a good story when they see it. This movie stars Martin Mull, form¬ erly of the 'America Tonight" TV in a drastic waste of comedic talent. Sally Kellerman is also here fo a real type-cast situation, like John-Wayne was type-cssted in westerns, Kellerman has shown us a catch-22 ' of playing herself all of the time. -I think we're growing tired of her neurotic ever talking modem sexually loose mother routine. This film, if you can call it that, is one orgy or bad word after another. It's the Msd Comic's look at California lifestyles. It wss dated before it was finished. Twenty years from now people sre going to look st this film snd ask deep philosophical snd historical ques¬ tions about those cult - going, free- living people of the early '80s in north¬ ern California. What really worried me as I watched this movie wss that there were two people actually laughing at the comedy of this film. I finally recognized thai there are more weirdos than I had thought. I had just assumed they were all over watching the stocky Horror Picture Show. Now, that's really going to be a great story-piece for future generations— but that's a whole premise for another column. If you can keep yourself from 'Serial*, please do. You'U thank me for the' warning. t The FIRST Certified Crazy Person's Comedy. PETER FALK • ALANARKIN PC *•**'■< "■ ■-■*i suoMTiti ::- ( .... ... _ ,;H TONIGHT 3:00 Matinee IA101v 7:30 & 9:45 CU Lounge r *9>* ami sriUo? fl$i& insrcittib e w«wii >a Mftfeq ^iw* twoV *viJJ V.c»V r-1*
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Title | 1980_04 The Daily Collegian April 1980 |
Alternative Title | Daily Collegian (California State University, Fresno) |
Publisher | Associated Students of Fresno State, Fresno, Calif. |
Publication Date | 1980 |
Description | Daily (except weedends) during the school year. Microfilm. Palo Alto, Calif.: BMI Library Microfilms, 1986- microfilm reels; 35 mm. Vol.1, no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- |
Subject | California State University, Fresno -- Periodicals. |
Contributors | Associated Students of Fresno State. |
Coverage | Vol.1 no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- to present |
Format | Microfilm reels, 35 mm. |
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Title | April 18, 1980, Page 5 |
Alternative Title | Daily Collegian (California State University, Fresno) |
Publisher | Associated Students of Fresno State, Fresno, Calif. |
Publication Date | 1980 |
Description | Daily (except weedends) during the school year. Microfilm. Palo Alto, Calif.: BMI Library Microfilms, 1986- microfilm reels; 35 mm. Vol.1, no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- |
Subject | California State University, Fresno -- Periodicals. |
Contributors | Associated Students of Fresno State. |
Coverage | Vol.1 no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- to present |
Format | Microfilm reels, 35 mm. |
Technical Information | Scanned at 600 dpi; TIFF; Microfilm ScanPro 2000 "E-image data" |
Language | eng |
Full-Text-Search | April 18,1980-theDallyConegign-Page5 "■■".■•I Oddities by.Wdmel Fitzgerald Dec 9, 1958: The height of the cold war. Eleven influential men meet in Indianapolis st the invitation Of anti- communist Robert Welch. Welch has hot told the. men the reason for the meeting. Yet the men have come. . . For two days Welch makes a presenta¬ tion. Unless we can reverse forces which now seem inexorable in their movement you have only a few more years before the country in which you live wilt become four separate provinces in a world-wide communist dominion ruled by police state methods from the Kremlin. Welch tells the men that Lenin laid down a plan to 'conquer the world before he died; that for the ensuing 36 years the. communists have patiently and brilliant¬ ly pursued this goal; and that they have achieved such success even in America that our Congress and the Pentagon havebeen infiltrated. Welch then proposes the formation of an international organization, with him¬ self as the leader, to oppose the commu¬ nist conquest. It will .be named after a Georgian Baptist minister, John Birch, who died fighting communists in China shortly after World War II. the' Blue Book of the John Birch Society is the verbatim transcript 'of Welch' s presentation. It is also the Bible of the. John Birch society. The book shows what the Birchers believe in (God), what they stand for (less govern¬ ment and more responsibility), and what they oppose (communism, of course). The book is unwavering in its percep¬ tion of communists ss Evil. Communist leaders are 'beasts...whom we treat as human beings, snd with whom we sit around conference tables and arrive at -oncessions to appease them.' . Accordingly, The Blue Book is gener¬ ally dismissed ss an obsolescent product of the McCarthy era. But the quality of Welch's intellect gives the book some lasting value.. His presentation is bril¬ liantly constructed. Pssssges from great poetry and philosophical thought elevate his talk. Viewed with historical perspective Welch's inright. ' are illuminating whether they hit or miss the mark. His assertion, for instance, that communist peoples live in "virtual slavery' behind the Iron Curtain, and that the over¬ whelming majority of them would revolt against their leaders if given the chance, casts light upon- the mentality of the American leaders prior to the Bay of Pigs debacle. And Welch's attempt to show us the face of the enemy is a passsge of sur¬ prising enlightenment. It is Welch's be¬ lief that communism is not the #1 enemy but only the most immediate one. Our greatest foe, Welch says, is not the com¬ munist, but the .amoral man, be he Russian or American, the man who be¬ lieves in nothing but himself, whose mind has no upward reach, the man who only seeks, through cunning, to advance his own interests. Like Richard Nixon. One of the fringe benefits of The Blue Book is Welch's brief, penetrating portrait of our erst¬ while president st a time when Nixon, fresh from his role in the Alger Hiss affair, was vying for the 1960 Republican presidential nomination. Welch, unimpressed by Nixon's poli¬ tics, perceives in Nixon s man who could oppose or support communism, depend¬ ing on the direction political winds blew: the amoral man. If his perception of Nixon had been generally believed in 1968, America might have been spired some of the turmoil which awaited it fur¬ ther down the road of history. People who believe that ideas should compete freely in the marketplace know that open-mindedness is their shopping cart. John Stuart Mill said that even false arguments help to illuminate the truth, and therefore should be heard. The Blue Book should be read for such truth aa it contains, such inadvertent truths as hindsight enables us to see, and such falsehoods ss we sre likely to believe in again. Review NEED A SUMMER JOB? You may bs sllglbia for s Work- Study iob IMS summer II you com¬ plete your Financial Aids Ilia lor Fall i960 and submit ins summer Work-Study .ppllclion by Msy 2. If your .ligltlillty .Mow.. J£-\ you may bs placed on a ** ' lodarally-subsldired fob lor uplCOhr/wk Dial., a summer job: 800-3311000 Work as a Manpower temporary. Flexible schedules. Good pay. Assignments available in your college town or hometown. Please call, toll free. Q MANPOWER TEMPORARY SEFWCHS Warning: 'Serial' a turkey by Bob McHattor. Everybody's heard about the many lobby groups in the political scene but few realize the same game, is played in the movie business. The most visible lobby group fo Hollywood today is comprised of rep¬ resentatives from each of the fifty states all trying to soil their home ss a perfect place to make movies. After all, location shooting costs around S50.000 a day. Well, there's a new movie out called 'Serial* that ahould have been made somewhere outside of California, if st all. , . To most Americans who live outside of California, the Golden State is a place where orgies, sexual perversity, snd weirdos run rampant. People all over the world see California arid its people through the stereotypes shown in tele¬ vision and the movies.' I hope they miss "Serial.* There's a category for this type of movie. "It's the kind where tears fill your eyes before the opening titles are finished, because you have just forked out four bucks for not only a turkey, but a bad turkey. If you're a -die-hard movie goer, see this one at a matinee, if at'all. One reason guys snd gsls like Clint Eastwood, Dustin Hoffman, and Jackie Bissett are superstars is the fact that they can recognize a good story when they see it. This movie stars Martin Mull, form¬ erly of the 'America Tonight" TV in a drastic waste of comedic talent. Sally Kellerman is also here fo a real type-cast situation, like John-Wayne was type-cssted in westerns, Kellerman has shown us a catch-22 ' of playing herself all of the time. -I think we're growing tired of her neurotic ever talking modem sexually loose mother routine. This film, if you can call it that, is one orgy or bad word after another. It's the Msd Comic's look at California lifestyles. It wss dated before it was finished. Twenty years from now people sre going to look st this film snd ask deep philosophical snd historical ques¬ tions about those cult - going, free- living people of the early '80s in north¬ ern California. What really worried me as I watched this movie wss that there were two people actually laughing at the comedy of this film. I finally recognized thai there are more weirdos than I had thought. I had just assumed they were all over watching the stocky Horror Picture Show. Now, that's really going to be a great story-piece for future generations— but that's a whole premise for another column. If you can keep yourself from 'Serial*, please do. You'U thank me for the' warning. t The FIRST Certified Crazy Person's Comedy. PETER FALK • ALANARKIN PC *•**'■< "■ ■-■*i suoMTiti ::- ( .... ... _ ,;H TONIGHT 3:00 Matinee IA101v 7:30 & 9:45 CU Lounge r *9>* ami sriUo? fl$i& insrcittib e w«wii >a Mftfeq ^iw* twoV *viJJ V.c»V r-1* |