Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suggest the violence and turmoil of revolution, Losey relies on the murals of Rivera and Orozco, to which he dollies in at all too frequent intervals. Rather than heightening the sense of political turbulence, however, this deadens it, lending The Assassination of Trotsky the faintly instructional air of a classroom film strip. By contrast, the movie assassination is staged like a scene out of some Hammer horror epic. Trotsky roars and staggers about after Jacson has smashed his skull with an ice ax. Images of Rasputin, riddled by bullets and reeling from poison, are inevitable and surely inappropriate...
...professor came into the classroom each day and bent his head over his notes to read them to us. Occassionally, he would wrinkle his forehead in an expression of great weight and importance to tally out of proportion with a what was being said. Also, occasionally he would lift his head to give a mechanical, passionless illustration of a point. Once or twice a week a student would make an observation the principal purpose of which was to show how extremely bright and receptive that student...
...addition, students applying to medical school face astronomical costs, fierce classroom competition, the tension of waiting out present "rolling admission" policies of medical schools, and heavy grade reliance...
...sand flowing through the fingers. If we lose everything, we can start again somewhere else, on another beach." An Asian schoolteacher agreed. "My classes are 95% African," he said. "They are being told to hate the Asians. How can I stand up in front of them in the classroom? It is a question of respect." The Asians' fears deepened as reports reached Nairobi, the capital of neighboring Kenya, that Ugandan soldiers had shot 16 Sikhs near the border two weeks...
...force behind their demands, the grad students declared two "work stoppages," one lasting one day, the other two. The work stoppages included picketing of University classroom buildings, and many undergraduates skipped classes in support of the Union...