Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than be content in merely reading history," his campaign literature promises. He will work for education which liberates rather than domesticates. For this to happen, "there must be a change in both method and content of Cambridge education," the literature warns. "changes in method alone--such as the 'open classroom'--are insufficient. 'Innovative' and 'individualized' racism is still racism...
What Bridges catches best is the peculiar tension of the classroom, the cool terror that can be instilled by an academic skilled in psychological warfare. His Ivy League Olympian is Kingsfield, a professor of contract law who passes along scholarship with finely tempered disdain. In an original bit of casting, Kingsfield is played by Veteran Theater and Film Producer John Houseman. It is a forbidding, superb performance, catching not only the coldness of such a man but the patrician crustiness that conceals deep and raging contempt...
Bridges' hero is a bright law student named Hart (Timothy Bottoms). Hart fears Kingsfield yet feels a cockeyed respect for him. He divides his time between going up against Kingsfield in the classroom and cuddling up with his daughter Susan (Lindsay Wagner), for whom he develops a healthy passion. Bridges is concerned with the cruelty of an academic system-and by extension, a whole system of professional survival-that measures success by assigning letters or numerals or awarding documents. Yet the grades seem just as important to him as to his hero. The dramatic device that gives The Paper...
Students are free to smoke in the toilet and take food into the classroom. They sharpen their wits by playing a classroom version of the television game show Jeopardy. Field trips have included a canoe trip to learn firsthand how pollutants poison a river. A recent guest lecturer gave a frank talk on how to run a quick-fry chicken outlet...
...members were evicted by force yesterday morning from the classroom of Martin L. Kilson Jr., professor of Government...