Word: friedmanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chief fighter for the traditional, "experimental" Sarah Lawrence approach is Maurice S. Friedman, a large, soft, heavy-set philosophy teacher with an unflinching faith in Martin Buber. Friedman was delighted to discuss the educational philosophy which for him has become almost a religion...
...spoke we scanned his dimly lit fourth floor conference room. Perhaps at one time the room was part of an attic, dusty, stale, and dead. But as Friedman has decorated it, the room is almost oppressive in its humanity. At odd corners of the room are numerous animals; each comes as a surprise. Swinging from the sloppy bookshelf is a toy monkey. A pink trojan horse and grey kitten sit on the desk. Also on the desk stands a willow plant, to which is attached a single large, yellow bee. And a gaint green cotton frog is perched...
...fleeing from the impersonality and bureaucracy of a great state university." Thus Friedman explained his reasons for coming to Sarah Lawrence from Ohio State University. Just as surely Friedman was reacting against his undergraduate years at Harvard. He described going to classes "scribbling notes furiously, and listening to nazal lectures." In sum, "I learned discipline there, but missed any dialogue at Harvard...
Frustrated as a teacher at Ohio State, Friedman began a careful study of the unique educational policy being pioneered at Sarah Lawrence. Convinced, he came East and joined the Sarah Lawrence faculty...
Police said they first spotted the teacher, one Rudolf Friedman, as he muttered uncomplimentary remarks about socialist realism while strolling through Leningrad's Russian Museum. A well-dressed U.S. tourist approached him, enthusiastically shared his sentiments, and promised to send Friedman reproductions of avant-garde paintings from America. The picture Friedman liked best, said the cops indignantly, was a "chaos of black, red and blue splotches captioned / Need You Tonight." Soon, they said, the teacher was getting messages from the U.S. written in invisible ink. Just as Friedman prepared to deliver information "very remote from theoretical arguments about abstract...