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...racial opression. Such at any rate is the manner in which Paulo Freire defines the function of education in his work, Pedagogy of the Opressed. Secondly, we should make the so-called Black underclass aware of our mutual opression and the necessity to unite and to struggle against the beast which creates such an underclass and overclass in the first place...

Author: By Selwyn R. Cudjoe, | Title: An Ideological Trick-Bag | 11/12/1980 | See Source »

Like Frankenstein's creation and Quasimodo, or any monster worth his salt, Merrick is doomed. But there are no rampaging townspeople screaming for the creature's blood, no corny "'Twas beauty killed the beast" tag line. Elephant Man ends in sadness, but also on a peculiar, vaguely cathartic note. Lynch has made the ultimate monster movie, dark, bizarre, and oddly affecting...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: Affecting Monster | 10/22/1980 | See Source »

...beast is back and they call it 1980 version of the South House tackle football squad...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: SoHo Annihilates Lowell House, 28-0 | 10/17/1980 | See Source »

Even with its irrationalities, cadets say that the fourth class system is important because it separates West Point from other colleges. "Beast" is necessary, they say, for it helps them to adapt to a military environment--something they function within for at least five years following graduation. People who come to West Point in search of the "free education"--cadets actually receive half a second lieutenant's pay during their four years--don't usually stay around. The attrition rate hovers at 25 per cent. "No one comes just for the education," says one cadet who wants...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Duty, Honor, Country... | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

...training a cadet undergoes in Beast, some say, helps them cope with the vast amount of memorization that West Point classes require. If there is a frequent complaint, it is that classes do not allow one to get at the deeper concepts, that a school which aims at training leaders tells those leaders what the right answers...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Duty, Honor, Country... | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

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