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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Does a tiger feel his tigritude?" he asks. A member of the cultured and sophisticated Yoruba tribe, he was educated at the University of Ibadan and the University of Leeds in England. He has worked for London's Royal Court Theater as playwright, actor and producer, and taught English literature at the University of Lagos...
...Germany, Director Richard Lester attended preview screenings before student audiences in Munich, Berlin and Hamburg. Afterward, he debated the film on the stage with politicians and writers. The results, he remembers, were sometimes quite startling. "One politician began shouting that 'the film is an insult to my English comrades in arms who fought bravely against us, at which point the students in the audience began chanting 'Sieg Heil!' in unison." Such outbursts were the sweet sounds of success for Lester. "Getting these points of view out in the open," he says, "is exactly why we made...
...last Master to retire was John M. Bullitt, professor of English, who retired in 1965 as Master of Quincy House...
...strike on West Newton Street was a catalyst. It was a political awakening for Boston's six to seven thousand Puerto Ricans. Most of them had come straight from the island a year or two before; others had spent a few months in New York; they couldn't speak English; they had no idea of their rights or duties under American law; and, politically, they were helpless...
...quit Boston University after three years, explained why so many Roxbury Negroes drop out of school: "I think the basic problem with thinking about schools in Boston is that they do not make students feel really happy about attending. Take for instance a Roxbury Negro in Boston English High School. He doesn't feel that this educational program is geared for him. Every day he sees people like Mrs. Hicks who are not exactly for him. That type of thing does not exactly leave a healthy attitude...