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arts Fair offers exotic displays Next Wednesday will be "Side-Walk Cafe Day" at the college. The exotic activities—be they French, Spanish or German in flavor—will take place either in the vicinity of the Poet's Chair (if the sun shines)or, if it fails to, in the Community Center. There will be dancing per formances, songs, skits, ethnic food, drink, fruit and flowers to delight any one attending the "Cafe." Included will be fortune-tellers, a photo-kiosk, T-shirts on sale, and many other offerings of the sort. Besides the Clackamas lang uage classes, there will be many area high schools included: Ore gon City, Lake Oswego, Estaca da, Tigard, Rex Putnam, and Clackamas high schools will be among those participating. Last year's foreign language fair was "excellent" according to Carlotta Holley, Spanish teacher at the college. "Thè food was good, the skits were great, and we had more than 400 visitors last year," Mrs. Holley said. Funds from the fair go to wards scholarships, and, periodi cally, they are contributed to help students with travel ex penses. Mrs. Holley emphasized that that activities are for the stu dents. "Last year I noticed more student participation than in past years, and I hope to see even more this year," she stressed. Starting at 10:30 will be the Spanish segment of the "Cafe". Spanish activities will last until 11:40 a.m. and will include a variety of skits and songs. The French portion of the fair will be highlighted by a can can dance, a mime, and songs. It will last from 11:40 until approximately 12:10, and will be followed by the German occasion, which begins at 12:35. and finishes at 1:25 p.m. In this atmosphere there will be dances, a play, songs, and some band music. ■ 41 In review Idle chess By Shawn Parkhurst Of The Print "Idle Passion" is an un- worthy title for such an en lightening piece of literature. The subtitle, ' Chess and the Dance of Death", is much more appropriate as it is in finitely more concrete. Still, the author must have realized the efficacy of the latter to include it. Alexander Cockburn, a New York writer, is this au thor with the closely honed intuition. He has transcended chronological barriers (trans ient relevancy) with his book possessing the ostentatious but honest title mentioned above. You see, the book was first published in 1974, but what does that matter? True, it didn't receive much criti cism, of the good or bad sort, but that is because of the nature of the book: it is a probing into the psycholo gical motivations of the great masters at the game of chess This subject matter, and Cockburn's undefinable style, confused reviewers who did n't want to venture into re viewing a book, who's con text was somewhat ambig uous. It wasn't a purely psy chological study, or philoso phical study, or biography, or. . . what? Paul Morphy, one of the premier chess players of his time, which was the middle of the nineteenth century, merits a chapter from Cock burn. Cockburn defines Mor phy's motivations for the reader, along with provid ing him with the end result of the masters dilemma-a case of psychosis. Morphy went deep and Cockburn goes deep in rendering the man un derstandable. Chapter three is titled "Splendors and Miseries of the Great Chess Champions" In this chapter, the author prepares us for his examina tion of most of the chess champions since Morphy, in cluding Jose Raul Capablanca (1921-1927) Boris Spassky, and Robert Fischer. This ex amination is depth probing to say the least. Astonishing to me is the fact that Fischer's terrible re putation is minute compared to some of the other chess champion's fantastically un predictable temperaments. Nabokov's famous master is explored as are many other fictional character's. They are rendered, by the almost fan tasy world of the real persons studies, as biographical as Morphy's section The crux of Cockburn's study is the relationship of chess and death, as one might gather from the title. He re turns to the etymological be ginning of the word "Chess", and connects it, in light of his findings, with ruling, serving, living and dying. He uses his information in his study of what personality traits a chess master is generally in poss ession of. It is very effective --intriguing. One doesn't need to be a lover of the game of chess to enjoy the information "Idle Passion" inparts. A genuine interest in people and their psychologies is all that is de manded for one to turn the pages of this book quickly. It's a hard book to find now, but it is worth every bit of time invested in wait ing for the store to order it. You can really write in the margins of this one! Plot lingers By Ann Breyne Of The Print "Coming Home," at the Bagdad, is a movie for your must-see list. Jon Voight and Jane Fonda take the lead in the film with Bruce Dem and SUMMER WORK Earn $2500.00 Interviews held Saturday, at Portland State. Smith Center Room 328 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Please be on time SUMMER WORK Penelope Milford as strong supports. Voight is a Vietnam vet eran and a paraplegic; he is bitter and he is mad. His character, Luke Martin, is left for wasted as are the rest of the vets in this story. Dem is a Marine captain who wants only to be a hero in Nam but only manages to get in on the end of the war. He comes home wounded and wins a medal for bravery he knows he doesn't deserve. Fonda is the bridge be tween the two. She is Dern's wife and becomes Voight's friend. Milford, her best friend, sets in motion Fonda's progression from a wife into a real person. Her first big step is working as a volunteer at the Veteran's Administra tion Hospital. It is there she meets Voight. What reSults is an extreme ly intense and moving rela tionship. Fonda is loyal to her husband but she needs someone and naturally Voight does too. There is an explicit but tender love scene between the two which seems com pletely acceptable because of their emotions. The director, Hal Ashby, ("The Last Detail" and "Shampoo") has compiled, along with the crew and cast, an excellent piece of living film. It is detailed and real.' Maybe too real. The movie will no doubt affect you according to your participation or non-participa tion in the Vietnam War and your feelings about love. It is not light entertainment, some involvement on your part is required but is well worth it. One* thing for sure, you'll be thinking about this movie a long time after you've left the theatre. Photo by Sam Students enjoyed a special concert in the community cer Tuesday by a guest jazz ensemble. aÖ8efs Personal Effectiveness The Focus on Women series presents "Developing Personal Effectiveness," a workshop fea turing Carol Peterson, who has been a consultant to many Port land area firms, on how to be come more effective in dealing with people and situations. The workshop will take place in the Community Center building, CC- II7 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Cost is $20 per person (which includes lunch) and early re gistration is advised. Contact 656-2631, ext. 232, to register. xie Barrett and Benny ■ son, will appear in corl Friday, May 19, at 8 p.n the fourth floor concert« the Neighbors of Wfl building, 1410 SW Morn They will be backed by M Mason, bass, and Davit] Joi guitar. THERE JS A DIFFERENCE! 40t Good Listening Music to eat lunch by is presented by the College's mu sic department in the College's CommunityCenterMall.The mu sic starts at noon, Tuesday, May 9. Time to Dance Don't forget the Big Band Ball, Saturday, May 6. The din ing commences at 8 p.m. with dancing beginning at 9 p.m. The cost is $7 per person for din- ner/dance and $3 for dance only.: Music will be performed by the Rhythm Section. Champion Fiddlers to Perform The great Texas fiddlers, Di- CENTER TEST PREPARATION]1 HEARD’S COPY SHOP 908 MAIN STREET OREGON CITY, OREGON Phone: (503) 655-9227 SPECIALISTS SINCE 1938 Visit Our Centers I And See ForYurselfH Why We Make The Difference ] Call Days, Eves & Weekends I The Xerox 9200 Duplicating System □ Quick Job Turnaround □ Exceptional Copy Quality □ Automatic Sorting and Collating □ Three Reduction Sizes For Special Duplicating Needs It all adds up to better, faster printing services—by us, for youi Classes are now formingl The Galleria 6 00 SW 10th, Sulte402 Portland. Oregon 97205 1 222-5556 Clackamas Community Colli
