Word: defendents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From the moment one sees June (Lisa Eichhorn) the heroine of Wildrose, hacking away at a tree stump in the woods, one realizes that this is one of those films out to defend that mythic territory of American folklore known as rugged individualism. Wildrose, like Country and Heartland, attempts to highlight Man vs. Nature as a dying theme in American culture. These films constitute a new breed of Back-To-America Realism that revives the creation myth of the endangered individual as the prototypical American...
...Kahn in his Sept. 25 editorial piecce attempts to defend President Bok and the Harvard Corporation's refusal to totally divest of South Africa-related stock, and to caricature the divestiture movement as self-righteous 'Bok-bashers.' It is striking that nowhere in four column feet of text is there any reference to South African conditions nor any mention of the expressed will of the oppressed majority. Kahn's ignorance of these can be the only reason for his myopic analysis...
...They were playing a soft zone," Stavrianidis reported, "and they weren't coming up to defend our passes...
There is something "inappropriate" about a University which stands for freedom of thought refusing to defend the blatantly opressed rights of a people kept in ignorance. There is something "inappropriate" about a University wrapping itself up in its ivy and refusing to recognize the context in which it operates...
...otherwise be available has an opportunity to contribute something of value to his or her people. Every black worker whose working conditions improve through company policies we have helped to change is a human life made better. Every service that Americans can render in South Africa either to defend the victims of apartheid or to prepare students for higher education is a step that helps pave the way for change. Such efforts may not make an immediate visible dent on the apartheid system, but they are still worth doing. Together with similar steps by other concerned organizations, they may help...