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worked as a sales girl, a secretary, and on the assembly line of a firm making thermometers. In 1961 she married Klaus Wagn, a German writer. They were divorced two years later after the birth of a son, Martin, now 9. Miss Vilar says her former husband is still the most important man in her He. When she-is away;publicizing:..her books, he lives in her hometo care for Sieir son. Now she is concentrating on nonmanipulafive child rearing. She sees to it that her son has toys traditionally used by both girls and boys and when she scolds she tries to do it on nonsexist terms. "I never say don't do that because you are a boy," she explained. "Of course all the other children in the neighborhood are being manipulated. I can't make Mm an outsider. I always have to. compromise so the child doesn't have to pay because Ms'mother has these r ideas..," .'

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Authoress says men are oppressed

ByDEEWEDEMEYER

LONDON (AP) - The American male is the most oppressed man in the western world, says the author of a book that also argiies men are really slaves and women their exploiters. Esther Vilar, author of "The Manipulated Man," also thinks that women are stupid and getting more so every day; that men are brilliant but locked into stultifying jobs; that housework is a pleasure and men are deprived of it and that all of this stems from mothers who condition their children into manipulative and~ slave roles. The book was originally published in Germany where it made the best seller list before it was launched in seven other European countries.. In London, novelist Kingsley Amis called it "Total Twaddle" and one reviewer" wrote "to know her is to hate her." But others praised the booli: as the best argument yet against women's lib.

Now Miss Vilar has added a special chapter devoted to the American male and is preparing for a lecture and publicity tour in the United States. Regarding the American trip Miss Vilar said in an interview: "Sometimes I'm afraid. But I have to do it. If you are going to change things you have to change things in America. American, is so influential.. You have to go to 'the" lion
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. Miss Vilar actually wrote the,book in New York almost two.years ago during a fivemonth visit in which she lived in an East Village Hotel and made research trips to suburbia. The book is, she said, an illustration of a theory she calls, "the pleasure of nonfreedom." She says she wouldhave written the book even if there had been no women's movement but she chose her words with the thought of making a change" because of it.

"The liberationists were very loud and so this had to be very loud or nobody would notice it. It was very important that they notice it because I really t"'"k they are wrong." Basically her theory is that the male is brilliant and capable of doing great things with his freecom Tmt BIS intelligent thoughts frighten him. He seeks the security of the enslaved and marries. : Conditioned by" nisi-mother*' from childhood to.believe :that he is .smart and responsible and that girls are incapable and. helpless, he easily assumes his responsibilities. He is.therefore bound for life in stultifying jobs. For the American male this is all compounded by the high standard of living and the emphasis on success. "In no other country do mothers so pitilessly train the male infant to perform. No other society exists where the male sexual ctrlve is exploited for money so unscrupulously," she wrote. Girls, though born inv

telligent, Miss Vilar says, are taught they don't have to tMnk because men are going to work for them. Their goal is to find a man to do tin's. Some women may work or go to college but only to make themselves attractive to men. They may even proclaim that housework is drudgery and that .-the male is fulfilled because he works outside the name but in fact, they know housework is easy and they really, think it is a pleasure;. "Housework is so easy that in psycMatric clinics it is traditionally the job of morons who are unfit to do any other kind of work," wrote Miss Vilar. For those who don't quit work Miss Vilar has an explanation also. Some are ugly and couldn't find a man towork for them. The emancipated ones really aren't emancipated because most have the trappings of the housewife a home, children and a man but they still have the option of quitting. It's this option she says men

don't have. As for feminists, these are women who from time to time, throughout Mstory, emphasize their claims to masculine prerogatives. American contemporary feminists are doomed to failure because they have directed their efforts against men; their real allies. The only women who escape VMiss iVilar's- pen unscathed are those who go to work and let their husbands stay home. Those, she notes, are rare. A meek, almost mouselike woman with long brown hair parted in the middle, Miss Vilar, 37, was born in Argentina of German parents who were divorced when she was three. After graduating from medical school she practiced for one year, then studied psychology and sociology and became a sales representative for a pharmaceutical company so she could support her Writing career. At various times she has

Esther Vilar

A Keating review

Israeli kibbutz

'Most Happy Fella' is just about perfect

By MICHELINE KEATING
Citizen Drama Critic

Communal system crisis

By MARY ANN MICHIE
Universal Science Newsservice-

The Playbox has done it again! This community theater group has formed a habit of taking outsize musicals, difficult to produce on a large stage, and making it look" easy on their rniniscule stage in the theater in Traildust Town. And they usually come up with a production that equals that of any professional company. This time it is "Most Happy Fella" and director Hal Hundley has handled the show as if he had the Metropolitan Opera House to work in. It is a whale of a production that is just about faultless. _ Adapted from Sidney Howard's drama, "They Knew

What They Wanted," it has a good story line about a mail order bride who discovers- that her suitor is an old man Mead of the handsome young man in the photo he had sent her. Her husband is injured on their wedding night and she is seduced by the ranch foreman,, the original of the photo. At about-the same time that she discovers'she truly loves the kind and understanding older man she has married, she finds out she is pregnant with the foreman's baby. She tries to run way, but her husband is hungry for a wife and a baby and he takes back Ms penitent bride. The foreman moves on. It is a full-bodied story for a musical and Frank LoesserV lively score makes the most of it. "Standing On The Corner,'-^

"Most Happy Fella," "Don't Cry/' "Warm All Over" and "I Like Everybody'" are all songs that have made it on their own. Added to Hundley's smooth and certain directorial, expertise is the lively and effec'tive choreography of Ellen France. There is no time when too many people seem to be on the small stage despite the large cast. And to get to the nitty-gritty ' of the cast, it is seldom in the professional theater, much less at the community level, that a cast is so uniformly good. Harold Ober is perfect as the elderly wine rancher in . search of romance. He makes the character real and likeable and, of course, his voice is outstanding. I can't imagine anyone being better in this role. The mail order bride is played charmingly by Laurie Greenfield, a drama major at the University of Arizona. She gives the girl depth and quality and she has a nice singing voice. Mel Kessler is good as the predatory foreman and shines particularly in his songs. Margo Jflensin Sternstein does well as a girlfriend of the bride. Md Tim JMy is excellent as a ranch hand who falls for her. Blanche Rubin, as the rancher's jealous sister. . gives a solid performance and George C. Anderson makes an acceptable doctor. The chorus girls and boys make their own contribution to-the all-around good evet ning. 'the: liseat theater was filled to capacity at last night's second performance. The opening night was a benefit. The production continues at 8:30 nightly on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays through December 9. There will be a 2:30 p.m. matinee on Sunday, Nov. 19. If you like musical comedies, you will love this one.
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The first generation of people raised under what were supposed to be Utopian conditions are going through a great crisis today, according to a young psycMatrist who has lived and travelled with, them. One out of every three young Israelis raised on a communal farm, or kibbutz, makes the. painful choice to leave, says Dr. Stanley Greenspan; now at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Md. Although much has been written about the unique Mb' butz system, wherein children are separated from their parents and raised to believe in the strict ideals, Greenspan says the crisis of identity in the 18-to-2?-year-old Israelis is an undiscovered" quiet revolution. Kibbutz youth are torn between the strong communal ideals, of the farms and their desire for individual goals. This is largely caused by a conflict in their pioneer parents, the psycMatrist says. "The parents came to Israel because they were non-conformists and rebels in their own societies. It was their strong individualism that enabled them to pioneer a new life," he explains. Thrust on the barren desert against great odds, they banded together to survive, subordinating themselves to the group. The pioneering sprit and individualism of the parents then become a disadvantage to their children, . -_:: -;...' .. . While there is strong pressure from the community to live up to the ideals of communal living, parents often give their children hints to leave the kibbutz and strike out on their own. "The idea of kibbutz loyalty is so important that the parents are expected to forbid their children to leave,"

Greenspan says. Yet these individualistic parents often express an undercurrent of independence wMch is felt by their children. Greenspan interviewed groups of adolescents still on the farms, those who had left, and elders. Most parents .insisted that working on the land and devotion to the kibbutz could be combined with independence. "When I asked how their children1 could be independent and also place "kibbutz loyalty above individuality, they replied that the young people should go out and start a kibbutz of their own," the psycMatrist says. : ' . ' One group of young people did go out to the south Israel desert to begin a new kibbutz,

Greenspan! says. But the elders tried to discourage them, pleading that if they left, there would be no one left to run the original " ""butz when the founders.... a too old. Youngsters usually leave to seek an education for a personal, not a communal-goal. They expressed to Greenspan the belief that this was ;what their parents really wanted for them. While Greenspan found young Israelis to be open, warm, explorative and, wellbalanced, he notes they- often have difficulty expressing their hopes for personal goals. The kibbutz child-rearing system, wMch places all young people to a "children's, society" visited by parents a few hours each day,' is intended to foster collective goals from birth onward. Thus, the decision to leave is agonizing.

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

Moody Blues: We never were a fad?

By MARY CAMPBELL
AP Newsfcature Writer

Leading soprano of German songs to give UA concert

Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, regarded by many critics as the leading exponent of lieder,. will sing 17 of these German art songs at her University of Arizona Auditorium recital on Tuesday. , . She explained in a telephone interview from New York that lieder is "a song to a poem preferably a good poem." Mme. Schwarzkopf was the recognized star of the Vienna Opera after World War n and made her American debut with: an all-lieder recital in Carnegie Hall in 1953, followed by many American successes in the ensuing years. Her UA program features 11 composers, including Mozart. Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Liszt, Strauss and Hugo Wolf. Wolf is one of her admitted favorites. She says Ms songs are beautifully suited to her voice and temperament. > "I admire not only his music but also the poems he chose to set. And these must never be sung in translation. The German vyor.ds and the music form such an organic whole that they cannot be separated without great loss. .'i i"The')T)oems^arejveryrdiyerse; There is ty h^unior a' wide range of emblons and expressions." In private life she is Mrs. Walter Legge, wife of the founder of the famed Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus. Mme. Schwarzkopf's accompanist for the past six years has been jrianist Geoffrey Parsons, an Australian who calls London home. Tickets for the UA performance are available in the box office, at $4, 3 and $2. Box office hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, except show days, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Curtain time is 8 p.m. ^ Dodie Gnst

The Moody Blues gave two concerts in one day in New York's 20,000-seat, Madison Square Garden. We went back to the dressing room after the first one and found a few , friends with the group, but no groupies, and a very relaxed, friendly atmosphere. How, we asked Justin Hayward, can you be so relaxed? Isn't there a lot of tension atthe top? The group's last six albums have been gold. "It isn't tense for us," Hayward says. "There hasn't been .any hype to get us where we are. People just, play our records. There hasn't been much in the way of advertisements or promotions or interviews. We're pretty quiet as people. We just like.to lead our own lives, go into the studio ^nd record and go per-^ form. We're our only real close friends each other and our wives and girlfriends and mums and dads. It is a big family. "It's easy not to fight. I don't think we've had any big rows for years." The gold LPs are "A Question of Balance," "Days of Future Passed," "In Search of the Lost Chord," "On. the Threshold of a Dream," "To Our Children's Children's Children" and "Every Good Boy Deserves Favor."

Beatles in 1964 and an album "Moody Blues No. 1" and a Mt single, "Go Now," came out in 1965. Then came a slump. Justin Hayward replaced Denny Laine and later John Lodge replaced Clint Warwick. The other members are Graeme Edge who plays drums and Mike Pinder who plays Mellotron. ' The group went to Amsterdam for awhile and, on returning-to England, cut. "Days of Future Passed." Atthat time, there had been no combining .of ;rock - and classical ;musi- . tiansoh:amajdr;scale. .'-. "That was the day we threw away our blue suits and stopped doing other people's material and trusted ourselves to do our own. We had nothing to lose." Asked if the group had then discovered a key to success, Hayward says, "Trusting yourself is it You can only play what you want to hear and what turns, you on and hope everyone else likes it." . Asked about differences between British and American listeners, Hayward says, "England is much more prone to groups that come up and down very quick. "Fads rub off on us because we're listening to music all the time. What is going on has got to influence you. But you find you always write in the same mode; use some notes in the scale more than others when you write. We've always sold well in England, wMca means a lot of nice, concerts. But we never were a fad."

Monkeys show average U.S. diet bad

Monkeys fed an average American diet, Mgh in meat and suffered three times as much damage to their main arteries as those on a "sensible" diet. Also, the damage was four times as severe, reports Dr. Robert W; Wissler, head of the pathology department at the University of Chicago. The sensible or prudent "diet contained less eggs, roast beef, steak and pork, and more fish, baked turkey and cMcken than Americans usually eat The sensible diet omitted eggs and pound cake, and substituted cottage cheese for other types of cheese. Butter;%lard and margarine Mgh in saturated" fat were replaced with unsaturated margarine and corn oil. Monkeys fed a typical American diet for two years developed fatty deposits in their aortas wMch covered an area seven times larger than deposits in the main arteries of animals on the prudent diet. Also, the fatty plaques were four times more severe. Another part of the study checked the small coronary arteries wMch carry vital oxygen and nourishment, to the heart. Monkeys on the American diet had four times as many fatty plaques in their arteries, and these were four times larger than those in the coronary vessels of animals that ate sensibly. Monkeys were used since their cardiovascular system is more similar to man's than is that of other'animals.

A model?
No. Randee Campbell of Lake Havasu City is a business woman. Story on page 16.

The Moody Blues were on the American tour with the