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...film focuses on the problems of Jacob Horner (Stanley Keach), an English instructor with an affinity for nonsense, whose initial problem is psychosomatic paralysis. Horner's form of noninvolvement is meant to be seen as a psychotic reaction produced by the ugliness of American life...
...then go into the waiting trains. Eventually, he is rescued by a mysterious and flamboyant black Doctor (James Earl Jones) who takes him into a Remobilization Farm, where seated in the midst of the light show gadgetry of the Advice Room. Horner is advised to become a college instructor of prescriptive grammar. The rest of the film then, more or less, deals with Horner's adulterous relations with the wife of a fellow teacher, her impregnation, and her accidental death during an incredibly realistic and stomach-turning abortion scene...
Others welcomed Pusey in memory of "The Vietnamese murdered by members of ROTC," "Harvard's one tenured woman professor," "The Adams House kitchen workers and janitors not invited to the dinner," "Jaok Stauder [instructor in Social Anthropology], Chester Hartman [assistant professor of City Planning] and academic freedom," "The tenants involuntarily expelled from their homes," "Soc Rel 148 and 149, found too relevant for Harvard," "Henry David Thoreau, who said he never learned anything of value at Harvard," and various roommates "punged from the University...
...title promises, a parade of the naked-male and female-are exposed to the unsuspecting, with entirely predictable results. An undraped lady waits for an elevator; men emerge, confront her and gape. One even offers his jacket. For a sex lecture, the lady instructor arrives in the buff, prompting a genial response from a student audience, and furious blushing and giggles from four parents...
...example of Southern Massachusetts University's school-in-exile was cited as a possible tactic to oppose the suppressive actions of school officials. Judith Adler, an instructor fired by S. M. U. who is head of the school-in-exile, also spoke at the session...