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...Herbert Bloch, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, said yesterday there is "a real crisis" in Medieval Studies, but he "is convinced the administration is not at all hostile to the Middle Ages...
...Bloch added, however, he "knows of no provision" by the department for continuing the teaching of medieval Latin when he retires in four years...
...American parents and educators have yet to figure out a way of making respect for authority and for others part of every student's education. Meanwhile a measure of comfort may be on the way for teachers oppressed by too close encounters with abusive youngsters. UCLA Psychiatrist Alfred Bloch, in a study released last March, found that 250 battered teachers from inner-city Los Angeles schools evinced nervous symptoms akin to "combat neurosis." Now the American Federation of Teachers is offering a special program for them. Worn-down teachers in various cities meet to discuss strategy and vent their...
...fact, the vote was the result of a carefully orchestrated, six-year effort to steer the association away from its see-no-evil stance. Psychiatric Terror, a book by British Psychiatrist Sidney Bloch and British Political Scientist Peter Reddaway, which describes more than 200 cases of Soviet psychiatric abuses, was timed to appear just before the meeting. Thirty-four Soviet dissidents, including Nobel Peace Laureate Andrei Sakharov, signed an appeal to the gathering asking for condemnation of Soviet psychiatric abuse. A few of the dissidents showed up at the meeting, including former Leningrad Psychiatrist Marina Voikhanskaya, who marched...
DIED. Ernst Bloch, 92, unorthodox Marxist philosopher with a sizable following among student radicals; of a heart attack; in Tubingen, West Germany. His master work, Das Prinzip Hoffnung (The Principle of Hope), completed during his prewar years in the U.S., laid the groundwork for Theologian Jũrgen Moltmann's "philosophy of hope." Bloch later taught at the University of Leipzig, East Germany, before defecting to the West in 1961 because he was "no longer willing to expose my work or myself to undignified conditions...