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Alan Bisboi 9 lit I I' CTy 1 i 'HHfoii imitf i is) -lit i i i i a ir.eL" CsrcXna Thsatre. Yes "Teles From Topocrcphlc Occcna" I can see it now. Long-haired, silver-throated, pale-skinned Jon Anderson, the lead singer for Yes, is sitting in his hotel room. It's just before the evening's second show. He is pondering the cosmos.

The other band members are sitting around watching television or snorting coke or whatever. Jon yells, "Look here guys. Look what I found this lengthy footnote on page 83 of Paramhansa Yoganada's Autobiography of a Yogi. They all look at him with tolerance in their eyes. "Yeah, guys.

We can use this for our next album. It'll be perfect for that double album because we can make it a four part composition. We'll base it on what this footnote says. The four part Shastric Scriptures which cover all aspects of religion and social life as well as fields like medicine and music, art and architecture." "Gosh, Jon. That covers about all the bases, don't it? The other band members reply in four-part harmony.

Then, a little bald-headed man with a half-chewed, half-smoked cigar stuffed in the side of his mouth knocks on the hotel room door and in a distant voice says, "Ten minutes, boys. Your equipment is already set up. The cYowd is waiting." Although I took a few liberties in the re-creation of the above scene, I must admit that I was forced into it hunk cf half-baked cosmic hokum. Before you dismiss me as a hue hunk of hot air, please remember I am not putting down the talent that Yes possesses. I am putting down the entire reasoning, the entire existence of such a work as Tales From Topographic Oceans.

I'm tired cf having a handful of Anglos think they; are responsible for the religious and spiritual well-being of the masses (that's us). In order to get a handle on things, look at the Who. They, too, have recently put out a double album Quadrophenia, which revolves around a central theme or concept. Peter Towns hen wrote the entire thing, just as Anderson and Steve Howe wrote Tales. But.

the comparisons end there. Townshend never has let his music suffer at the hands of message, and," more important, he never loses contact with his audience. Quadrophenia is dedicated to and about his audience. He acknowledges the existence of this world, and, through his characters, he deals with what is here. For some reason, I don't feel that Yes have a good enough foothold in this world to be telling us of other ones.

So, in a sense, it is impossible to say anything about their music. They inhabit that nebulous world, the one between meaningful and meaningless, trying to pass themselves off as the former. It reminds me of a joke I once heard about having the cosmic wool pulled over your eyes. Get it? Ha Ha. Don't get this.

Besides, they don't once mention anything about my favorite yogi, Yogi Berra. by the entire being of this album. Occasionally, one has to takestock of things and bringtheminto perspective. With this album. Yes proves whst I have long considered to be an unhealthy trend.

It all started with the Beatles going to the East and trying to send back little smoke signals of awareness to the Western world. Thank goodness, most of that searching for the Truth in Eastern lands has stopped. At least, people have stopped singing about it. It seems that those who got into the Eastern religion scene back then have either given it up as just another fad or have incorporated into their lives to such an extent that they don't feel compelled to spread the word. Until Yes came along, I should add.

These guys are nothing but Anglos who went East got a shot of knowledge, came back West, had lots of money at their disposal and lots of recording equipment and decided to cut an album guaranteed to give shortcut Answers to The Question for the multitude. In short, they are cultural rip-off artists, taking knowledge which is deeply woven into the fabric of Eastern life and playing around with it like so much clay. They have done it for two years now and will continue as long as people are willing to buy it. When I frist put this record on, I told myself not to be cynical. After all, it might mean something to somebody.

But Anderson's inclusion of liner notes explaining the album and the lyrics and the cover artwork and the Music created such a swirl of thematic tomfoolery that I was forced to dismiss it as a huge p.m. In the r.cio'ccl Sciences Auditorium, Duke Ur.ivtrti'.y. Sponsored by th Duke Freewatsr Film Cc-clsty. "Cti-ss ttarrins Orton Wi'2s. Friday 7, end In the Clological Sciences Auditorium, Cuke.

Sponsored by th Freswsttr Rim Cos! sty. "Ft per f.l3on," ftsrrlng Rysn end Tttum O'f Itsl. Directed by Pett Ccsdanovleh. Saturday end Sunday at 7 9 p.m. In Page Auditorium, Duke.

Sponsored by Quadrangle Pictures. 'Admission $1. Concerts Kris Kristofferson and Waylon Jennings. Friday at 8 p.m. In Dorton Arena, Raleigh.

Reserve seat tickets, $5 and $5, available at ail area Record Oars. Seals and CrofL Sunday at 8 p.m. in Cameron Indoor Stadium, Duke. Tickets on sale at the Record Ear for $4.50 and $5.50. John Ogdon, British pianist, will appear with the North Carolina Symphony on Friday at 8:15 p.m.

in Memorial Hall. Admission free to UflC students. Experimental music program featuring a talk by Dr. Shiangtai Tuan on compositional uses of a computer as a sound source for 20th century music. Thursday at 8:15 p.m.

in the East Duke Music Room, Duke University. John Drowning, pianist, will appear with the North Carolina Symphony on Thursday and Friday st 8:15 in Memorial Hail. UNC students admitted free. Arrogance, local rock band, will appear in concert Friday, Feb. 22 at 8 p.m.

in Memorial Hall. Tickets, $1, on sale at the Union desV Arrogance will play two hours of original music in their final Chapel appearance this month. Black Festival A panel discussion on "A Love Yourself Affair Elack Women and Black Men: How Do We Get It Together?" Thursday at 7 p.m. in Upendo Lounge. Radio WD3S 107.1 FM stereo.

10 a.m. to 1 p.m. "Daily Concert," Buxtehude, Mozart, Puccini, Handel, Bach, Shostakovich Schumann. 6:30 p.m. "Spotlight," featuring "Alive and Well," by B.B.

King. WDNC 620 AM and 105.1 FM 11:07 p.m. "CBS Mystery Theatre," featuring "Dig Me Deadly," with E.G. Marshall, host. VCHL 13S0 AM.

6:15 to 7 p.m. "Interlude," New York Pro Musica. Theatre "This is the Rill Speaking," by Unford Wilson. Directed by David Shepherd. Thursday at 4.

Friday at 4 8. Free tickets available at Lab Theatre Box Office in Graham Memorial. Carolina Readers Theatre will hold a preview showing of its two new shows "Antigone," by Jean Anouilh, an anthology about women. "Antigone" will preview Saturday and "Woeman," Sunday. Both shows at 8 p.m.

in Gerrard Hall. 75 cents for students, $1 for public. "Grease." Last in a series of "Broadway at Duke." Musical about the 1S50's. Friday at 4 and 8:30 p.m. in Page Auditorium, Duke.

Tickets $5, $6 and $7 for the evening show, $4 for the matinee. Available at Page Box Office. -t, cxtrscru r.ry film etout a v.ira hurr.jns era kept pts. C-3 cf ,3 r.cst fcrir.lint pisces animation cr.a cf r.s nest tru! rr.sI-sl plscsi cf c. it to bs mis tad.

1 1:24, 2:55, 4:23, 5:53, 7:12 C. Cr.j Thursday. Lata show. 1 i r.i Czt-Tiiiy, Th Four Clowns." "ir'j orfttw." aii shows et i I "J-1 Varsity Tbsstre. A fiSm t3 Hsnirlx's Hfa through IntsrvJsws end shots cf his playing.

Ir.t;rs::n3thcu;h evsryena IsttHI too caught up In 1.3 to prc-e vsry cfseply. 1, 3, 5, 7 S. t2. Cr.is Csturday. Lata show: "On a Clear Dry Ycu Can Forever." Friday and tt 11:15.

LItsrty." Plaza I. According to 1" sci! peer lovs story cf a and a pre 5. 2:33, 4:53, 9:23. $2. Ends Feb.

23. "I'zQ." FIsza It. John Wayne's police Get very bad reviews. 2:30, 4:45,7 $2. Cr.s Wednesday, Feb.

23. PSasa 111. Woody AHen's latest set 210 years In the future. Very f---, end though It lacks some of the cL brilliance cf "Sex," It Is his st, bsst-paced film. 3:33, 5:30, 7:30 3.

2. Ends Thursday. Tl 3 Czr.lor Class will present a film, "To Sir V. Lc5," Thursday at 7 and 9 In 431 Cr: Admission Is 50 cents. HI Film Friends: "People on Cw (Germany, 1S23) A study of a day in tu5 fs cf ordinary people, directed by Robert Chown ISh "The Goat," a Duster short.

Friday at Saturday at 1 1:30 in Hall. Admission $1.50. Alternative Cinema: "Sambizanga," a eloquent and ultimately quite forceful film set against the background cf Portuguese colonialism. Made In Africa and directed by a black woman Sarah Maldoror. Friday at 7.

Saturday at 2, 4:33, 7 9:30 In Hail. $1.53. Free Flicks: Friday, "Carmen Jones." Oscar Hammerstsirt's version cf the Dizt opera. Not'-very wsil filmed. Saturday, "Suddenly, Last Summsr." Delightfully overripe Tennessee Williams with great bravura acting by everyene.

A lot of fun. Sunday, "State cf Zltz 3." Costa Gavras' political thriller with scenes worthy of Eisenstein. Perhaps last year's best film. All films at 6:30 9 In the Gre-t Hz. "When the People Awake, Chile 13721373." Sponsored by Bread Roses.

Thursday Et 1 1 a.m. In Carroil HsH. Admission frsa but donations requested. Three Chaplin shorts, "Beyond the Screen," "The Fireman" and "The Rink." Tonight at 7:33. Chapel Hill Public Library.

Library. 'T'odern Times," the first In a series of Chaplin films sponsored by Chapel Hill Film Friends. Chaplin is the definition of film poetry and this film is perhaps his best. Absolutely not to be missed. Funny and extraordinarily endearing.

Sunday at 2, 4:30, 7 Over 50 in 17 years Shotts takes students abroad by Gail Bronson Feature Writer Claude Shotts takes people to Europe so they can see themselves. In the last 17 years, he has taken 500 students and several hundred parents to Europe through Seminars Abroad, a program he organized to encourage off-campus education. "After a person sees another culture, he realizes that he is a product of his own culture," Shotts said. "Then he starts to question himself and, as a result, becomes a different person. He changes almost enough to become a member of the human race." Shotts said his concern for people and education began during his childhood in a small racist town in Alabama.

"My mother's family was secessionist during the Civil War and my father's family was Unionist," Shotts recalled. "My grandmother wouldn't let me in her house because my father was a Nigger Shotts left his hometown to attend the University of Alabama, Yale and Harvard, but never accepted a degree because he wanted to work with the common man and didn't think a title was necessary. After directing a Quaker sponsored relief program in Germany after World War III, Shotts came to UNC in 1947 as director of the YMCA. He organized Seminars Abroad in 1957 out of concern for students who complained of being rooked by travel agencies when they traveled abroad. Shotts said travel is an important aspect of education because "we live in a time of rapid change." "In order to be educated to live and work in our present world, a student needs knowledge and experience in cultures outside his own." He presently coordinates the Seminars Abroad program trom Guilford College in Greensboro, where he has been a counselor for nine years.

The student program consists of stops in 12 countries, including Russia, over a six-week summer period. A similar program for parents and alumni was organized three years ago. Shotts said more students are traveling abroad than ever before because "young people are interested in the world they want to see it move toward unity." Students lose their American isolationism when they travel abroad, he said. "When students land in Paris, they become six-year-olds. They throw off all the bad things school has done to them andjust explode with questions and curiosity." He said when most students go to the opera for the first time after arriving in Europe, two-thirds of the group walk out before it's over.

"By the time we hit London at the end of the trip, they run to get tickets to the operas and concerts." Shotts rummaged through a handful of old group photos, then pointed to a picture of a dark-haired young man. "When we went to Moscow, all he could do was complain about the Russian wav of life. "But you know, by the time we got back to the States, he was a changed person j'his parents hardly knew him." li Z.7 Shotts said the main thing to remember when traveling is hot to be a tourist, but rather become involved with the culture through interacting with people. He said Europeans readily accept people traveling in their countries as students of culture but resent American tourists looking for bargains and complaining about the style of living. Traveling through an agency is likely to be more expensive than either individual or group-organized trips, he said.

Shotts said although Seminars Abroad is a non-profit organization, prices have increased over a third since it began. "A person hitchhiking his way through Europe will probably get along well, but drivers aren't as quick to pick up travelers as they used to be." Has Europe changed very much in the past two decades? Shotts thinks so. "When 1 was there just after the war, everyone was so idealistic about world peace. They still are to a great degree, but they have a sense for social programs and responsibilities now." Europeans have become more like Americans in their materialism, but still possess a quality of artistic culture that Americans don't really have, he said. Shotts hopes travel will help bringabout his goal of world community.

"We must build our Utopia, not wait for a revolution or the second coming." He picked up a brochure about the Seminars Abroad program and read a quotation from Edwin Reischauer printed on the cover: "There must be a profound reshaping of education if mankind is to survive. "Education is life with people people from all parts of the world." "China Seas." Starring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow and Rosalind Russell. Thursday at 8 Remember Your Valentine with Jowelry Blouses Pccketbooks STUDY IN GUADALAJARA, MEXICO Fully accredited University of Arizona GUADALAJARA SUMMER SCHOOL offers July 1-August 10, 1974 courses in ESL, bilingual education, Spanish, anthropology, art, folk dance and folk music, geography, government and history. Tuition SI 70: room and board in Mexican home $215. For brochure write: International Programs, 413 New Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85 721.

Body Shirts Guys Gals needed for summer employment at National Parks, Private Camps, Dude Ranches and Resorts throughout the nation. Over 50,000 students aided each year. For FREE information on student assistance program send self-addressed STAMPED envelope to Opportunity Research, Dept. SJO, 55 Flathead Drive, Kalispell, MT 59301. MUST APPLY THIS STUOCNT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM HAS SEEM RCVIEWEO SV TME FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION Knit Top; is Pant Suits Socks from Have You ever seen a Kt)- HARNEY PEAK TRADING CO.js Presents J0wy QH PLAMS DPJFu 122 E.

Franklin University Mail Clint Eastwood has. Soe Clint Eastwood, Carolina Theatre, 11:15 $1.50 Ml V3 ty i AN IMPORTANT SHOWING Of AMERICAN INDIAN Tuesday, Wednesday. Thursday. TURQUOISE AND SILVER JEWELRY February 12. 13.

14 9:30 a.m.-8:30 p.m. Rmgs Brotele's Necklaces Squash Blossoms mmmmmmmmm I'M Hi MM 1 Counsalors Weeded for Summer Camp PRESENTS OF r.lIPJD JN'VfBVTV SQUABf DOWNTOWN CHAPfl Mill II II I I i ti Men and Women. Staff, Faculty and Studants Invited for Intsrviaw Check Student Placement Office for Appointments Interviews will be held in Student Union Thursday Feb. I4th Special Orders Loot Chance at Unreal Buvo bCiaiizoptirenia it Glcoeo Safiurdav- sjr Opportunities for Graduate Training in Biomedical Research and Education The Department of Anatomy of the Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest University offers graduate training leading to the Ph.D. and to career opportunities in teaching and research in the 3iomedka! Sciences.

Areas of specialization include regentration, neurocytology, sensory neurophysiology, female reproductive biology, control of vertebrate morphogenesis, hormonal control of electrclytes, and compensatory growth mechanism. Non-Federal monies for stipend and research support of qualified applicants are available. Applications requesting financial aid must be received by March IS, 1974. The department seeks to open positions in the program. Write: Robert A.

Finch, Ph.D. Departmental Graduate Adivsor Department cf Amtomy Bowman Gray School of Medicine Winston-Salem, N.C. 27103 rt' RoductionG Hours: 10:00 to 5:30 NCN8 Plaza I'! IP -1.