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...half-finished drinks. If such is the state of contemporary student writing, one may wonder why the publications make the effort at all. But, of course, there is always the chance that this publication will be the exception, and on this reasonable premise we now have the new Scorpion, published at Adams House...
...Scorpion may very well turn out to be that sought-after exception. The first issue's "Statement" begins with, "This is a magazine to be read . . . We shall accept material from any student -- so long as it is worth reading." No pretenses about the writers of tomorrow, no promises of Juniors finding truth, no pomposity about a grand design -- the Scorpion, if it remains true to its word, deserves a permanent place in the Harvard community of little magazines. What is more, prose here is not sandwiched in between pages of dripping poetry. The first issue contains one long short...
...quality of the first Scorpion is uneven, ranging from a what-the-hell-is-it piece called "Eight Days" to David Ansen's '67 readable and polished short story "And Baby Makes Three." Ansen's story is about plastic, formica, sensitivity, and sex in Southern California. Specifically, it is the story of three generations of women who are chronic losers at love. With excellent dialogue and good characterization, the piece moves along, jumping (not always smoothly) from one "great line" to the next. The reader is delighted to see the entertainment at a bar, consisting of a Mexican guitar troupe...
...between. Some 15,000 Arab troops effectively dominate the Upper Nile and Bahr el Ghazal provinces, restraining rebel terrorism there to what amounts to pinpricks. Control of the southernmost province of Equatoria (lat. 5° N.), however, rides a seesaw. A Mau Mauist organization known as Any a Nya (Scorpion), armed with Communist machine guns smuggled in originally for Congolese Simbas and reinforced by fugitive Simbas, ambushes Arab patrols, murders suspected Arab sympathizers, and spreads havoc through most of the countryside. Last week the rebels announced that they had attacked a river steamer at Tawfigia and destroyed a company...
...SCORPION ON STONE by Gwyn Griffin. 219 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston...