Word: hungers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Philipp O.C. Schorsch, a former student at the Business School, entered the fourth day of a hunger strike yesterday to protest his dismissal three weeks ago from the School's Doctoral Program...
Schorsch said that he will hand out a leaflet today at the Business School explaining the hunger strike. In the leaflet, he maintains that his primary purpose for the fast is not to be reinstated in the Doctoral Program, but rather to question the way "people normally acquiesce to injustice...
...context (a newscast of a prevailing monetary crisis serves as the film's refrain). Gilliat feels her movie is "peculiarly political." The political import reads like an open letter to the English, who are familiar with its suggested terms, while an American needs to be told that the Jarrow hunger marches in 1906 are built deep into the nation's memory, and into the background of her characters. Class differentiation in the film as seen, to be gradually disintegrating. Bob represents a classless agent, although his implicit working-class origin has strong reverberations for the English. Somewhere, Gilliatt says...
...variety of legitimate entries would be staggering. Still, on undeniably strong contender is the northeastern region of Brazil, centered about Recife and dominated by its sugar and coffee plantations. This is where Paulo Freire grew up and came to know firsthand the listlessness, hopelessness, and pain of suffering hunger and oppression. Today he is living in the physically comfortable environs of Geneva, Switzerland and probably has not experienced hunger for some years. But he had not forgotten what it was like to share the life of the poor; and his life and his book, Pedagogy of the Oppressed are eloquent...
...would have ever been written. From the time his philosophy of education was first formally expressed in his doctoral dissertation at the University of Recife in 1959 until his "invitation" to leave Brazil, he was refining and applying his methods of teaching to the enormous problems of illiteracy, poverty, hunger, and oppression that were the everyday existence for the peasants of northeast Brazil. Emanuel de Kadt, in his books Catholic Radicals in Brazil, states that the Metodo Paulo Freire "...was still characterized by potential rather than actual achievements, by promise more than realization." Yet the concrete plans for 1964 were...