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Books the Feb. 15, 1969 THE REPORTER'S VIEW RFK Deserves in History Than 'Loyal THE UNFINISHED ODYSSEY OF ROBERT KENNEDY, by David Halberstam '(Random House, A study of the new and old 'Bobby' and the new and old politics during the 1968 campaign. By AUSTIN C. WEHRWEIN Of The Star's Pages Staff It was Robert Kennedy's fate, while his brother John was alive, to play a secondary although powerful role, always willingly, of course, in the remarkable tradition of that remarkable Kennedy family. Thrust by the phenomenon of the McCarthy movement into 'a race for which he was, unprepared, then robbed of his chance for the presidency by the second assassination of a Kennedy, his place in history may be largely that of the intensely loyal brother.

But perhaps not. For what Halberstam has tried to do is to assess what Robert was forced to do when he was far more on his own than John, and how he met the challenge, both burdened and aided by the Kennedy tradition that a Kennedy must win. He had helped his brothers win. He had, himself, won a senatorship. But did he win his own identity? In the traditional sense.

of the word, did he find his soul? I take it that Halberstam would answer, "yes." An exceedingly bright and industrious 34, Halberstam is ideally equipped to judge and identify with Kennedy, who was 44 when he was. murdered. Like Kennedy, Halberstam was a Harvard product; now with Harper's magazine, he has a Pulitzer prize for his New York Times correspondence from Vietnam. In tune with the new journalistic style he writes himself into the account, which is more of a mood essay than history, although it is good post1967 history at that. He is sensitive but not sentimental.

While his focus is on Kennedy, he covers well the other figuresJohnson, Humphrey, and McCarthy. insight is sharp, as when he observes, "When people cheered McCarthy, they were cheering To Halberstam, Kennedy was a former conservative, then the harsh hatchetman for his pragmatic brother, then, as he sees him, a man driven by a ROBERT A primitive anger STAR events today: ON STAGE "Tom p.m. today, Shelvin Hall, Arena Theater, University of Minnesota. Admission and reservations. "The Boy Friend" p.m.

today, Chanhassen Dinner Theand ater, Chanhassen. Admission "End of Ramadan" -8 p.m. today, Theater in the Round, 1308 Stevens Av. S. Admission and reservations.

"Bleep Is Four Letter Word: I A Rowdy p.m., 10 p.m. Sunday, and Brave midnight New today, 8 p.m. Workshop, 2605 Hennepin Av. Admission and reservations. "The Impossible.

Years" 8 p.m. today, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Old Log Theater, Excelsior. Admission and reservations. 8 p.m.

Sunday, Cricket Av. Theater. through, St. Hennepin Admission and reservations. "Legend of Rip Van Winkle" -8 p.m.

through Sunday, Theater of Involvement, United Campus Christian Fellowship Center, 311 17th Av. SE. Admission and reservations. 40n Borrowed p.m. through Sunday, Village Players of Richfield, Holy Angles Academy, 66th St.

and Nicollet Richfield. "East fu p.m. through March 1, L. O. Jacobs Elementary School, 1700 Coon Rapids Rapids.

Admission. "The Threepenny p.m. through Sunday, Eastside Theater, 311 Ramsey St. Paul. Admission and reservations.

"Dracula" 8 p.m. today, Punchinello Theater, 100 North Hall, university. Admission and CALENDAR 3 p.m.'MONDAY CONCERTS First Covenant, Church, 7th St. and Av. S.

Featured performers will be Bill Pearce and Dick Anthony. The Bethel College Women's Choir will also appear. DANCES Square Dance Party 7:30 Hayes Elementary School, Mississippi and Monroe St. NE. Fridley Fliers Square Dance John Saccoman, caller.

Admission. Square Dance 8:30 p.m., Midway YMCA, 1761 University St. Paul. Randy Dougherty, caller. Valentine Dance-9 p.m.

to midnight, Ballentine VFW Post, 2916 Lyndale Av. S. Sponsored Hennepin County General Hospital employees. Door prizes and refreshments. Admission.

SUNDAY CHILDREN'S EVENTS "Play Play-2 p.m. Sunday, Jeanne, d'Arc Auditorium, College of St. Catherine, St. Paul. Admission.

"The Sleeping Beauty" 2 p.m. Sunday, Eastside Theater, 311 Ramsey St. Paul. Admission. "The Little p.m., Children's Theater Company, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 201 E.

24th St. Admission. "Let's Pretend Children's The Hokey 4 p.m., Brave New Workshop, 2605 Hennepin Av. Admission and reservations. ON STAGE Theater of Psychodrama 5 p.m., 1317 1st Av.

S. Admission. MISCELLANEOUS Showing of Prize winning photographic color slides p.m. and 13 p.m., Minneapolis Public Library, Heritage Hall, 300 Nicollet Mall. Nature slides at 1:15 and pictorial slides at ty.

Admission. "Sounds of the Symphoknolls" -8 p.m., St. George's Episcopal Melody Four Quartet-8 p.m., Church, 5224 Minnetonka Blvd. War Crime Prosecuter Benedict Deinard Dies Benedict S. Dienard, 69, Minnesota and American bar chief U.S.

counsel in the eco- associations. He was a member of the American Law nomic section in the postInstitute, a fellow. of the World War II Nuernberg American College of Trial trials, died Friday. Lawyers, and vice-president of the Minnesota Orchestra Dr. Deinard lived at 909 Association.

Parkview Golden Valley. He was an assistnat general Survivors include his widcounsel for the Board of ow, Lucile Curtis Deinard; Economic Warefare and two sons, Ethan Long eign Economic Administra- Island, N.Y., and David tion from 1942 1944, a Minneapolis; a brother, special assistant to the U.S. Amos, Minneapolis and three attornay general from 1944 grandchildren. to. 1945.

As chief, economic Services will be 2:30 section attorneys, he prose- p.m. Sunday in Temple Israel, cuted and helped convict 24th St. and Emerson Av. S. German munitions manufacturer Alfried Krupp in 1945.

Memorials to the University of Minnesota Law School Mr. Dienard was a member scholarship fund are preof the Hennepin County, I ferred. Levi Pease, 96, Teacher, Dies; Funeral Monday Funeral services for Levi Beckley Pease, 96, a professor emeritus and member of the University of Minnesota faculty for 45 years, will be at 1:30 p.m. Monday in Lakewood Chapel, with burial in Lakewood Cemetery. Mrs.

Pease, a native of Minneapolis, died Friday in Abbott Hospital. He graduated from the University in 1898 and earned his' master's degree in 1899. At the time of his retirement in 1941 he was professor of metallurgy in the School of Mines. He was a life member of Zuhrah Shrine Temple, a charter member of university Masonic Lodge and a member of Acacia Fraternity. He also was a member of First Congregational Church, Alpha Chi Sigma and Sigma XI.

Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Leif Gilstad, Washington, D.C.; a son, Sherman Houston, Texas; five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Alton Smalley Rites Monday Funeral services for Alton D. Smalley, 66, Pine Springs, a veteran St. Paul newspaperman counselor, will be at 10 a.m.

and public relations Monday in St. Jude's Mahtomedi Catholic Church, 700 Mahtomedi. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery, North St. Paul. Visitation will be from 3 5 p.m.

and from 7 to 9 to p.m. Sunday at Sandberg mortuary, 2593 7th Av. North St. Paul. Mr.

Smalley died Thursday in St. John's Hospital, St. Paul, of lung cancer. Arts STAR 5A A girls in the dream ballet from Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, choreographed by Agnes de Mille, are pictured in one of many photographs in the enlarged and revised edition of "The World of Musical by Stanley Green (Barnes, $12.) Spot Greater A Brother' kind of puritanical sense of social outrage, moving left far more than orthodox liberals understood. Halberstam thinks that Kennedy's instinct was to run in 1968 before McCarthy did, and reports that liberals like Allard Lowenstein urged him to do so.

But Kennedy was urged to wait by the some the ageing lieutenants of his late brother, He didn't trust himself. And, says Halberstam this was the once brash Kennedy's crucial mistake. Thus, although Kennedy had broken on the war with Johnson early in 1967, his eye was on 1972. When, in the wake of McCarthy, he did run, he lacked the time for careful planning that is the essence of the Kennedy campaign style. Halberstam has a keen analysis of the race, but it is too recent to require recounting here, Suffice to say Robert wasn't as "nice" as John, nor as good a speaker, though he was a master at fielding tough questions from an audience.

And, as we know, he developed a special rapport with the black and Latin Americans. In sum, Halberstam sees Kennedy as having emerged as the spokesman for the "poor and the restless and the dissatisfied." Issues and human grievances, he believes, began to consume him. He judged people less on how they served the Kennedy cause -the old acid test--than on how they related to the issues. This thesis leads to the conclusion that Kennedy had changed far more than the traditional liberals, 1 reaching point where, with an almost primitive and innocent anger, Kennedy believed institutions that "strangled" the country must be changed. I'm not sure how to characterize this.

A neopopulism, a Kennedy-style "new some sort of instinctive radicalism? But still, the issue for the people before the Los Angeles murder was "Bobby himself. The essay closes with the suggestion, however, that his death will let the nation discover what it had never understood or believed about Robert Kennedy during his life. If the thesis is correct, did he leave a tradition or a mood or a style will endure along with that his brother's New Frontier? And if so, what does this mean to the odyssey of Sen. Edward Kennedy? For that matter to the nation? 'Atreus' Critic: Production Hit, Audience Flop NEW YORK, N.Y. Re- viewing the Minnesota Theatre Company's "House of Atreus" on Broadway, Anthony West in the Feb.

1 Vogue magazine wrote that "there is nothing, but nothing, worse for a theater to contend with than an almost illiterate but highly sophisticated audience." Vi West praised the performance and wrote that, "It is a safe bet that nothing better in this line has been done in modern times." Criticizing the Broadway audience, he added. that "the sight of male actors dressed and masked as women produced the inevitable clever-clever reaction-ah ha! drag queens! -and the smart thing was to go on from there to compare the production's extraordinarily powerful and' effective Clytemnestra to Hermione Gingold." He concluded that, "The whole thing, including John Lewin's shrewd adaptation," was indeed refreshing and vitalizing, and it is altogether too bad that Broadway and its critics gave this very distinguished provincial visitor so churlish a welcome." de NEW RECORDS Discs 1st to Adapt to Music Changes By JOHN 1 K. SHERMAN The Star's Books and Arts Editor Stereo keep up with new developments in music better than do individual orchestras and other public performing groups, and a case in point is the issue by Deutsche Grammophon of a new line named Avant Garde, At hand is a 'disc devoted to two works by Karlheinz Stockhausen, "GRUPPEN and CARRE (137-002) and another titled FOUR TROMBONE PIECES (137- 005). ART CALENDAR Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 201 E. 24th (10 a.m.

to 10 p.m. Tuesday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday; 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday and holidays) Siembab Gauuery Photographs, through Feb.

16. Recent Sculptures by Charles Huntington, through Feb. 23. Recent accessions: Drawings, through April 6 in the Herschel V. Jones Galley, David Friedman, through March 19.

Barry Le Va, Pieces No. 1 and 2, Feb. 19 through March 9 Paul Art Center, 30 E. 10th St. Paul (9 a.m.

to 10 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday; 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Thursday and 1 to 5 p.m. and Sculpture Louise Kaisch," through Feb.

23. "Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture" continuing. "Arts of the Far, East, continuing. American Swedish Institute, 2600 Park Av. (2 to 5 p.m.

daily except Mondays) "Eight Million photographic record of modern Sweden, through Feb. 23. University of Minnesota's St. Paul Campus Student Center Galleries, (8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Monday through Saturday, noon to 10 p.m. Sunday). German Baroque prints, by Ron Dufault, 1st floor lounge display cases, through Feb. 21. Jake Lee, Watercolors, 1st floor lounge, through Feb.

28. Printmaker's image, 2nd floor gallery, through Feb. 26. Raheel oils, Rouser Room gallery, through Feb. 28.

Hamline University, St. Paul -Paintings and prints from the collection of Drs Frederick Leach, A. G. Bush Student Center. Twenty-five Graphis Works from the collection of William Hogarth, English artist, Drew Fine Arts Center Galleries, through February.

Theater in the Round, 1308 Stevens Av. Lithographs by Gerald Martin, through Feb. 23. Augsburg College Center, 8th St. and 21st Av.

S. Gilded paintings by Don Celender, through Feb. 28. Kilbride-Bradley Art Gallery, 68 S. 10th St.

(9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday) Years of Paper Jobs by Robert Killbride" an exhibition of prints, drawings and paintings on paper from art school days in Paris in 1950 until today. Kramer Galleries, 507 Wabasha Paul. Works by various local artists in multimedia, through March 1.

Sons of Norway, 1455 W. Lake (8:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. weekdavs, 11. a.m.

to 4 p.m. Sunday) featured artist for February is Bettye Olson. Exhibition of oils watercolors. Coleman's Restaurant Oil paintings by Pholomine Miller. through February.

First State Bank of St. Paul. Verba Weaver, Acrylics, through February. Manamore, 4536 France Av. print and pottery show, Feb.

16 through March 1. Poets Award NEW VODK NV (Snecial Richard Fborhart was awarded this week the 1969 fellowchin of the Acadenav of American nets hy its board of chancellors all eminent nets or critics. Mrs. Huch Rullock. academy nre sident.

made the announcement. The fellowshin carries a $5000 award. Film Prooram A program of evnerimental films snorsored hv the Walker Art Center will he presented at 8 p.m. Wednesdav in the Minne. apolis Public Librarv audi.

torium. The films by Herb Grika. instructor in film techniques at the Minneapolis School of Art, are all in color. AT REDWOOD FALLS REDWOOD FALLS, Minn. The Minnesota Orchestra conducted by Stanislaw Skrowaczewski will perform works by Haydn, Debussy and Brahms at 8 p.m.

Monday at the Redwood Falls High School. Biographer Describes Methods She Uses to explain the formula. Her short book is interesting in two respects, although for all its brevity it could well be shorter. "Bioggraphy" merits reading because it does tell us something about the process by which the biographer works, and it is appealing because Mrs. Bowen is a voracious reader and has crammed her book with catchy quotations from all eras.

BIOGRAPHY: The CRAFT AND THE CALLING, by Catherine Drinker Bowen (Atlantic-Little, Brown, 168 pages, Reflections by the author of several acclaimed lives on the art of the biographer. Reviewed by PETER ALTMAN Minneapolis Star Critic "A biography is not an encyclopedia, it is the story of a life," Catherine Drinker Bowen believes. The biographer must be more than a mere compiler of facts; he must give us the sense and the shape of his subject's experience, and must be able to make us concerned about that experience. Mrs. Bowen has written a number of lively biographies, among them "Yankee From Olympus" and "The Lion and the Throne." She believes good biography is the result of the intelligent and earnest application of certain skills, not a mysterious outcropping of genius or the accumulation of data, and in this book she attempts Elaborate on Truth "Writing a full-length biography is a long and difficult task, during which one is possessed not by dreams of glory but by anxiety," the author remarks.

The problems on which she concentrates are the structure of the biography, the author's problems of evidence, the difficulties of describing how men looked and what they thought but did not write down, and the latitude allowed the author for elaboration of bare truth. Novelists, Mrs. Bowen says, often tell her it must be easy to write biography because the plot is already established. greatest. Not so, she responds.

One of the biographer's problems is to find the conflict, the dramatic issue on which a biography can turn. Graduate students can assemble information in doctoral theses, she comments rather sharply, but this hardly constitutes biographical art. Mrs. Bowen is no advocate the unsubstantiatable flight of fancy, no urger of abuse of poetic license, but she strongly believes that biography must come to life by creating the atmosphere, the mood, and the texture of the historical situation, and this requires both digging and inspiration, she says. Art Is a She quotes Picasso's famous paradox, "Art is a lie that makes us realize truth," to make us realize the artifice behind any great biography.

Then she attempts to anatomize the artifice, describing in detail how she has created her best work. This is a gracefully written but not very profound book. Mrs. Bowen is a crisp stylist but her pungency of expression at time fails to cover certain superficialities of probing. One can admire her liveliness, yet not help feel that perhaps she is advocating a middlebrow approach to life-telling.

Reservations must also be voiced about the necessity for all the recondite quotations Mrs. Bowen passes on, and about the author's stress on personalities over issues and milieus. Nonetheless, this is a lively account of how a biographer goes about gathering and organizing material. It presents sympathetically the problems, and comments but sagely on the solutions, of the practitioners of a vexing rewarding art. Violinist to Play Brahms Sonata A "lost sonata" will be among the works played by violinist Isaac Stern in his Masterpiece Series recital at 8:30 p.m.

Thursday in Northrop Auditorium. The sonata, by Johannes Brahms, was originally composed for clarinet and piano. The clarinet part, can be played without change by the viola, and this may have motivated the composer to transcribe the part for violin. The manuscript of the revised arrangement was lost for many years and only recently was discovered. Stern will be making his sixth Artists Course appearance Thursday and most recently was heard there as a member of the Stern-Istomin-Rose Trio last year.

Hamline Play Hamline University Theatre will present "Morning's At Seven," by Paul Osborn at 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday at the Drew Fine Arts Center. The Stockhausen pieces illustrate the German composer's in "music in space" and what could be called "music in time." "Gruppen" uses three orchestras led by three conductors, situated at left, front and right of the audience, so that sound directional effects are part of the listener's experience. Three-channel has been converted here to two-channel stereo, so that we get about two-thirds of the concert-hall impact. The music is defined as a synthesis of orchestral, chamber and solo music, and on first hearing sounds like a collage of clangs, pluckings, violin solos and other less definable disturbances.

I found for four orchestras and four choirs more intriguing than the "Gruppen," for here are human 1 voices blending in slow tempo with instruments, producing a reaction Stockhausen refers to in his statement that "every moment can exist for itself." At The music, in fact, sounds absent minded and improvised, and induces a kind of trancemeditative frame of mind." There are various timbres in the mix, short and long notes, silences, a an occasional concourse of voices in spoken and musical phrases, and tongued wind instruments. The four small orchestras, with singers sprinkled among them, occupy four quarters of a circle, enclosed by a square space in whose corners the listeners sit. The music emanates from the center and spreads outward, "centrifugal" effect. I had a harder time with the trombone" pieces, played by Vino Globokar. Four works include Globokar's "Discours IT" for five trombones in which taped in turn the four 'parts and then the' solo while listening to the four merged soundtracks.

This, and three other works from other hands, seemed experimental in the extreme, like exercises. is singing of vowels inside and outside the trombones' embrouchure, and the music is mostly ejaculations combined with mystery noises, some of them vocal. DEATHS RAYMOND E. AMBLE, 46, 4817 Dunberry Lane, Edina, died Wednesday. Services were to be held at 1 p.m.

today in Normandale Lutheran Church, Edina. Burial in Lakewood Cemetery. Partner at Jacus-Amble Consulting Engineering, and tional of the Society for Professional Engineers. Director of the Society for Professional Engineers at the time of his death. World War II Army veteran and graduated from the University of Minnesota magna cum laude.

Member of Twin City Farmers, Minnesota Society of Professional Engineers, Minnesota Association of Consulting Engineers and the Plymouth Masonic Lodge No. 160 AF AM. Survivors: His widow, Donna; two sons, Walter R. and Curtis a a a a a a a a a daughter, Marcelyn all at home; his mother, Mrs. Erna Amble, two sisters, Mrs.

Oscar CrumKrumrei, Los Angeles, and Mrs. Perry Dean, Deephaven, Minn. WARREN E. BLAISDELL, 56, 6612 S. Crest Edina, died Friday.

Services Monday at 3 p.m. in Lakewood Chapel. Burial in Lakewood Cemetery. Graduate of University of Minnesota Law School in 1936. Member of Hennepin County, Minnesota and American Bar Associations.

Survivors: widow, Beulah; brother, Scott Emerson, Georgetown, S.C.; three sisters, Mrs. George Martin, Minneapolis, Mrs. David Wilson, Alfred, Maine, and Mrs. Nicholas Scarcello, Worcester, Mass. MRS.

FREDA 'BURR, 95, 1907 NE. Ulysses died Thursday. Services Monday at 1:30 p.m. in 0. E.

Larson Chapel, 2301 Central Av. Burial in Hillside Cemetery. Member of Salem Covenant Church Martha Society. Survivors: son, Lawrence, and two daughters, Mrs. Florence E.

Horan and Mrs. William Fitzgerald, all Minneapolis; 7 grandchildren, 11 greatgrandchildren, JOHANNA B. HECK, 77, 1004 Portland St. Paul, died Thursday. Services Monday Catholic at a.m.

at St. Luke's Church, Lexington Pkwy, and Summit St. Paul. Burial in Calvary Cemetery. Lifetime resident of St.

Paul and retired teacher of and German. 3 Member of Schubert: Club, 9 Women's Association of Minnesota Symphony the Orchestra, Cities In' and About Music Education Club, and St. Luke's Altar and Rosary Society. Survivors: a brother, Dr. Frank Heck, Rochester, two sisters, Elizabeth Heck and Mathilda Heck, both of St.

Paul. As counter-irritant you might try CLARE DE St. John's Buys Elizabeth I Letter COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. (Special)- One of the most important letters of Queen Elizabeth I ever offered for public sale has been acquired by the Alcuin Library at St. John's University.

The letter, signed "Your loving cousin, Elizabeth R(egina)," was written to James Douglas, the Earl of Morton, in 1575. Elizabeth had helped Morton defeat Mary Queen of Scots and had made Morton the Regent of Scotland three years previous. MUSIC AT MACALESTER The Rosen String Quartet will play music by Haydn, Bartok and Dvorak at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Wallace Fine Arts Center at Macalester College. The quartet of four Minnesota Orchestra members will make its New York City debut on Mar.

2 at Town Hall. RECITAL SCHEDULED Macalester students Clyde Thompson and James Straka will perform works for two French horns in a recital at 8 p.m. Thursday. LUNE: The World's Favorite Piano Music, played by Philippe Entremont, who will be guest artist with the Minnesota Orchestra March 28 (Columbia D3S-791), This is a mop-up of 35 familiar and over-familiar short pieces, and while they're all by master composers, listening to them in a row is like making a meal of hors-d'oeuvres, snacks and bonbons. The young Frenchman plays with brisk precision, better perhaps in speed than in mood.

Final 'Princess' Show Scheduled The final performance of "The Princess Whose Face Stopped Clocks" will be Council of Jewish Women presented Friday by the 8 Since. Sept. 1, 1967, the play directed by Mrs. Barry Bonoff and produced by Mrs. Charles F.

Mark, has been presented every Tuesday in Minneapolis elementary schools. The "Masketeers" will continue to perform every Thursday in. the schools with their second play, "The Stranger's Crown" written by Mrs. Bonoff, 4.