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Economic expediency has also eased Georgia's social reckoning, particularly in Atlanta. While other major Southern cities were witnessing the spectacle of defiance, in Atlanta a coalition of black and white businessmen, politicians, editors and civic leaders gathered behind then-Mayor Ivan Allen Jr. to shape a different image for the capital: "The city too busy to hate." Dr. Vivian Henderson, president of Clark College, feels not too much should be made of Atlanta's motives: "Self-enlightenment is not the takeoff point. The most potent factor has been the national policies that forced the South to change its ways...
...white nightmare; Elie Wiesel, the ghost of Auschwitz; and, to an unmatched degree, of Nobel Prizewinner Alexander Solzhenitsyn, survivor and permanent victim of Stalin's prison camps. In 1962, during Khrushchev's brief destalinization period, readers were suddenly introduced to One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. In a dark, spartan account, it told of the wretches who peopled the slave labor camps of Siberia, cleaved from society for uncommitted political sins, filled with what the author called "the fearlessness of those who have lost everything...
...film version's Ivan, played with austere dignity by Tom Courtenay, can scarcely remember his wife, let alone the life from which he has been severed for ten years. His sole ambition is that classic one of all prisoners: to get through the day. A half-bumpkin who believes that stars are pieces of the moon, he survives on an untutored existential faith. What animates him is what moved Camus' Sisyphus: the prisoner fails because failure is immanent in man; he endures because he must. Courtenay's fellow prisoners are for the most part a collection...
...Ivan Illich, founder of the Center for Intercultural Documentation (CIDOC), a radical learning center in Cuernavaca, Mexico, called last night for the de-schooling" and deprofessionalization of society...
...Gradually the idea grew that schooling was a necessary means of becoming a useful member of society," Ivan Illich writes in Celebration of Awareness. "It is the task of this generation to bury that myth." While the myth is still prevalent we allow schools to treat children like punch cards to be stamped with information ever more thoroughly and quickly so they can become increasingly more useful people. A child's progress is directioned, rationed, and judged in accordance with average achievements for his grade level. It is possible that some children do not want to read...