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The drama club at Central Collegiate presents the second of two per formances of Full House at the calls fulllength farce about ewel theft By BRIAN OSTHOII The anadian Press The thing about The Iceman Inheritance is that its subject bears serious consideration Author Michael Bradley con tends in what is billed as the most provocative book youll ever read that the socalled white race is more aggressive violent sexist and racist than other groups having inherited these traits from its Neander thal ancestors Now its quite likely that many of the worlds people es pecially nonwhites would sup port this idea But Bradley does not back it up with solid evidence The skeptical need read no further than the introduction to the book by Judith Posner professor of sociology and an thropology at lorontos York University Unfortunately she says ot Bradleys concept of race like so many people delving into this area he cannot define his terms adequately and therefore falls prey to the type of thinking he criticizes Although Bradley takes the position that race exists it is hard to agree or disagree because we dont really know what hes talking about Bradley himself says the evi Easy does it fence for his contention is em barrassingly threadbare BAHELY DEFENSIBLE would like to try to gener ate as much goodwill as pos sible in advance he says by freely admitting that tthe Vlr dencel is going to be very tenuous barely defensible and maybe not much more satis tying than no explanation at all Bradley suggests the obliga tion to explain the supposed dif fereiice between aucasoids and other peoples is itself aucasoid notion lr Iosiier finds the lcemai imbued with white mans gtiilt regarding the aucasoid cul tures exploitation of WUIIHI and nonwhites and suggests Bradley is working out his own unwanted and residual ag gressive racist and seXist ten dencies which he inherited from his own Neanderthal ancestors Given our lack ol prehistoric data we may nevei know the ultimate validity of Bradleys major thesm that aucasoids are more aggressive because of ancient glacial adaptation But although she finds fault with at least another dozen points It the book lr losner says she was not beeii espe gtate tonight at pm The play Is xamlner Photo Provocative look at racial traits lack solid evidence cially critical in her iii troductioii lid not intend to be It would be too easy to find fur ther faults with Bradleys analysis faults to which he has already confessed She concludes But all of this is in significant in light of his theo ries They are interesting and at least as sound as many otli ers The Iceman Inheritance is worthy model to keep in mind when reviewing the long range of human history and more es pecially when looking into the future The Iceman Iheritance by Michael Bradley Dorset 22 pages 295 IIIII SIIAIUIIING SIIRII By Joy Adaiiison The Born Free lady ventures iii to human autobiography rather than animal with interesting results IIIE NIl ONNEtTION By Itinterbothaiii The adventures of master spy inside NaZi Germany By the author of The Ultra Secret New books at the library IITION OVERIIOAI By Arthur Hailey timely noVel about the little known world of electric power production and the threat of shortages WHO DO YOl IIIINK YOI ARE By Alice Munro Ten innovative stories linked by the central character Bose SON OF THE MORNING By Joyce arol Oates Travail of militant American evangelist who believes himelf one of Gods chosen ABBA By Joan Barefoot young housewife abandons husband children and coin fortable home to scrabble out more satisfactory existence as hermit THE EVII IIIAI MEN DO By It Lance Ilitl Razorsharp storytelling in volving an instructor in inter national torture techniques stalked by professional killer IIIE SAVAGE BROOI By Martha ltofheart liVe hundred years of theatre history from ludor England to mtxierii Hollywood summed up in this weel written chronicale of the Savage family THE STORIES OF IIEEVER By John Cheever Visions of lost moral order amid contemporary domestic disarray JOHN THERE SHOULD BEEN ASIIES By Herman Itauclier Itaunchy showbiz novel of two young misfits in the early 1950s By the author of Summer of 42 II NONIHTION MOMMIE NEAREST By liristina rawford devastating pifile ot glamorous star by her adopted daughter IlIgtNKHAMlN By Thomas lloviiig new version of the celebrated conflict over the worlds most valuable remains IittOIIr mended Professional Steam Free Pickup Delivery Panorama books First novel recounts perils of growing up in America IIUNAR ATTRACTIONS By Clark Blaise Doubleday $1150 Reviewed by STEPHEN GAUER Lunar Atractions is the first novel by Clark Blaise the author of two prizev winning collections of short stories Tribal Justice and North American Education and coauthor of Days and Nights in Calcutta with his wife the novelist Bharati Mukherjee Blaise is not prolific writer the three books hes written have appeared over 10year period but he is an exceptionally good one The novel is moving and often spellbinding treatment of the themes Blaise has explored in many of his short stories the search for identi ty and the coming of age in America dur ing the 19405 and 19505 The narrator of Lunar Attractions is David Greenwood an intelligent and sen sitive only child who struggles throughout the novel to understand the world and himelf and the relationship between the two As the book opens Greenwood is young child living in rural Florida with his father furniture salesman who fled the cold winters of Montreal searching for sunshine and success and his mother refugee of different kind from cultured upbringing in Europe By the end of the book David has finished high school and is about to enter university Along the way hes discovered secrets about his father difficult truths about life and his own ability to cope with it and painful awareness of his own sexuality SEARCH FOR IDENTITY Adolescence and the searcti for identity is such tinielionored theme for first novel that Blaise might seem to be treading on dangerously overworked inateial in Lunar Attractions But com parisons to other novels fall away Blaise brings such intense and powerful awareness to the problems of growing up that he makes David Greenwoltxi as real and as recognizable as the readers reflec tion in mirror Greenwood is boy whos so caught up Written for in himself and in his own fantasies that he seems dangerously close to losing touch with the world completely As young boy hes connected to the world through radio programs and endless hours spent pouring over maps later in high school he makes friends with two other outsiders and finds the means to express his secret dreams and desires Part of the novels appeal is the way that Blaise can convey the thoughts of his young narrator his observations of his parents teacher and friends and at the same time draw conclusions based on an adults insight The two perspectives Davis as achild and David as the adult evaluating his past flow together so well and so convincingly that the book has the compression and coherence of short story THOUGHTS ANI VISIONS Throughout the novel David pushes back those border of permissable in nocence even if the thoughts and visions lurking behind those borders prove to be too much to handle In the most bizarre episode of the book David becomes murder suspect after classmate is brutally killed The classmate is 14year old transvestite if or seems to be the episode is recounted with confusing am biguity who gives the narrator his first sexual experience Much of the action of the novel takes place inside Davids head but the book is filled with sharply observed descriptions of the external world as well smalltown life in Florida in the 19405 the disillusion ed world of the travelling salesman high school life in the 19505 the faded glory of the industrial city where David and parents live in the latter half of the book Blaises accomplishment in Lunar At tractions is to transform boys search for identity into quest for something larger and more important an inquiry into values that rejects easy conclusions and safe arguments and its measure of his skill as writer that he can make familiar theme seem so fresh and ex citing Book on Emily Cdrr reflects growing interest in artist gathered animpressiveamount the deterioration of some of gt SIMCOE CARPET IIITIII th mercth Operated truck Mount Carpet bonito Unit 205 Dunlop St 12847 By DINA SlIHOW Recognition of artistauthor Eniin arr as thiljttt figure in aiiadian culture has grown rapidly since her death in 194 At the same time interest in the woman herself has grown producing an image of an cc centric She is often pictured as re cltise who paraded Victoria streets wearing 0I0lflll sack with sleeves and pushing pram full of sketching gear and animals She is reiiienibertxi as lonely genius who chose the solitude of the British ohimbia forests to paint iiiagnificenl ex pressions of her inner visions This image is partly tptkt phal built on the faulty memo iies of her ctiiitemporarics and highly embroidered tact Edythe llciiilroff Schlcichei has endeavored to set the story straight Ill her book Emily air The Untold Story An art ist herself Schleichcr was sketching companion and friend of air during the lat ters later years and is special consultant on arr for the IH goveiniiient Ill some ways Schleicliei more than succeeds She has Est I948 Cleaniiig Wall to Wall Carpets Rugs Furniture At our plant or in your home JOHN DUPAIN of information on the late artist and her work but has overdone setting dates and catalogues in order which could overwhelm the casual reader SHOWS PERSONALIIY Where the book does succeed is in the portrayal of arr as person She explains that what often is seen as eccentricity was really expediency arr emerges as matronly figure with dry sense of hu mor and Victorian sense of convention who was dogged by poor health and poverty Schleicher does her best to clear some of the itiysteiy stir rounding the Emily tarr Trust the group of paintings which taii willed to the province of It There is controversy rer guiding the ownership of these ttlkS the iitiiiibeis involved and access to them The works are housed in the Vancouver Art Gallery Sclileicher diverges from her subject to take swipe at the gallery for its treatment of the trust the lack of access and III formation about the works and HEARING TEST EVERY YEAR IS SOUND IDEA fHEARiNG AID SERVICE IIio Downtown Contra MplWStIvh Phi1374 Mon to F0 10 to 530 pm Sat Evenings by appointment them Although illustrated with photographs and brightened by arr sketches in the margins there is need for plates of arrs paintings which would be useful reference for Schlei chers detailed discussion of them EMILY Altlt TIIE IN IOll STORY Edythe Ileni Il0fflt5hIlItIltIl ttttt pages Ilaiicock House $2193 Hh Winsor and Dorienne WilsonSmitlie One World Tuesday at 1030 bould inada and developing totiiitries Lontenttate on agri tiilttiral Stllvsllllltltnty 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