Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hollywood has rarely made a film on a political subject that is both socially accurate and respectful of human dignity. So it's no wonder that American audiences have come to expect superficial cynicism as the acceptable tone of "progressive" American filmmaking efforts; leave Tolstoy to the comp lit classroom, leave the values of foreign filmmakers as diverse as Godard, Pontecorvo, or Costa-Gavras to their one-shot or arthouse audiences...
...views on Viet Nam. On economic matters, they are considered advance-guard liberals who favor a steady and perhaps wrenching move toward economic equality. All zealously deny that either they or their programs are truly radical, arguing that most of their theories have been taught in the classroom for years...
Professor Jurgen Zerche was lecturing on political science one day this spring when a band of some 70 young leftists barged into his classroom at the Free University of Berlin and began shouting curses at him. His offense: he had criticized the appointment of a Trotskyite professor. The students warned him that unless he recanted they would hold him prisoner until he starved to death. Zerche escaped by jumping out of a window...
Historian Alexander Schwan nearly met the same fate. His crime was that he had complained that student ideas of justice were similar to those of the Nazis. Another band of youths invaded his classroom, denounced him as "Professor Schwein [pig]" and tried to throw him out of the window. Schwan's own students formed a phalanx around him, however, and led him to safety...
...postwar idealism faded, however, so did good intentions. Senior professors gradually took control, and lectures often amounted to little more than the standard German classroom scene: a snowy-haired professor reading from his next book and refusing to answer student questions. At the same time, militant students from West Germany flocked to the campus, partly because Berlin was exciting, but also because the move to Berlin exempted them from the military draft. Built for only 10,000 students, the Free University eventually grew to more than...