Word: exploitationism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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If racism, unemployment, or the war were eliminated tomorrow, SDS would indeed be gratified-not disturbed, as Kinsley suggests. We do not believe, however, that chronic unemployment and imperialist exploitation can be ended under the capitalist system. This is why we would continue to attack the government even if (absurd...
Also at issue was the old puzzle of what constitutes free "speech" that is protected by the First Amendment. To protest Playboy magazine's alleged sexual exploitation of women, eight students at Iowa's Grinnell College stripped naked at a public meeting. Convicted of public indecency, they argued...
"How Can I Tell You" occupies a vital place in the restructured curricula in the Angier and Loker Schools. "Kids who were slow readers have become much more communicative and much more interested," said Anne McNamara, "and incidentally, they read much better." The value of curriculum reform independent of changes...
For example, although Alex can see through the surface exploitation of the venal producer's scenarios, he fails to perceive his own desires to inject issues like the war, racism and pollution into his own film as critically. And Mazurky merely corroborates Alex's myopic vision.
Middle-class ennui in a faltering social system is certainly an acceptable subject for a film, and even an imperfect treatment is far better than another commercial exploitation of the revolution. The subject, though, is too vague and ill-defined to be reduced to the microcosm of three lives. In...