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...known to occur in white culture) they would never have been shown on this campus or any other in the country. The callousness of the Peabody, its director, Karlovsky, and others in permitting this material to be presented at Harvard is a reflection of haughty insensitivity and a flagrant disregard for the feelings of our Black students and staff. This attitude has become more and more prevalent around Harvard...
...scarcely more than a year later, there is a movement to bring back the Indian symbol, showing blatant disregard for minority rights and feelings...
Some of these complaints, and a few others--bridling at the film's bluntly exploitational treatment of women, the disregard for character development, the extreme vicious streak--can be deflected by the claim that DePalma's theme, after all, is sexual fantasy. The whole film, it can be said, is intended as a pleasantly nasty sexual fantasy, with all its extravagance and questionable taste registering as expressions of DePalma's basic idea that sex is a dark dirty joke. This is true so far as it goes, and there's a spark of additional interest in light of the film...
...other practical suggestions. "You have to keep calling parents. You have to keep trying to get homework done." She also believes in sentence diagraming and drill. "They can disregard it later on, but it only becomes part of you later on if you drill now." To discourage predictable student alibis like "I forgot my book" or "I lost my pencil," Becker spends her own money to keep an extra supply of paper and pencils on hand. She always has extra textbooks on her desk...
...Cambridge. Today the city is powerless to do much beyond draping City Hall in purple bunting to mourn its problems; but if the day should come when it can act against the University--and it may be approaching--the city may respond to its years of ill treatment with disregard for Harvard's needs in return...