DOWN THERE

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

The Yale Film Society showed The River last weekend.

What was Yalie reaction to this monument? There was so much sneering and jeering, so much callow, loudmouthed, self-satisfied commentary from the Yale audience that the sound track was usually inaudible, the flow of language lost. There was a good deal of cheering for home states and home towns. If a banjo played, it was necessary to clap our Yalie hands. If a march came on it was necessary to stamp our collective, sophomoric feet.

Reactionary Yale politics achieved a well-argued victory at the end of the movie when the film was hissed because it was produced by the Fedoral government. For as we all know, whatever government does is evil, and necessarily poor. Hollywood films have demonstrated the brilliant success of private enterprise to Yalie satisfaction.

Yalies live in gothic buildings. This seems a suitable setting for the ideas of yesteryear. Fellx Cayo '54,   Yale Law '62.