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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shanker is out for power and dis ruption of the school system. We all know that the strike is not at all in the interests of the students but to prevent the system from decentralizing. Local boards might well mean quality education for all students in New York City - something which hasn't arisen from a slow, centralized bureaucracy. I am a senior in high school, and if the system remains the way it is, I am glad that this is the last year that I will be a part...
HERE SHE is now, in the middle of the Notre Dame campus. "I chose Notre Dame," she says as smiling Notre Dame men mill about her singing We Shall Overcome and making the peace sign, "because to kids in The Movement it is a very symbolic place. I mean, you know, Ara Parseghian is really a kind of guru, and you know the whole campus just gives off this real sense of freedom. You can do your own thing here, and you just can't do it in the Purdue Marching Band...
This kind of friction--educated versus uneducated--is not new. In 1953 the Yoruba party called for independence after three years. The Ibos supported the demand, but the Northern group opposed and defeated it, well aware that independence in 1966 would mean economic and administrative subservience to its more developed neighbors...
...turned out, this was the kind of carping that a student aims at the teachers who mean the most to him. In 1948, for example, Boulez castigated Berg for having introduced a polka into the atonal fabric of Wozzeck. Today, admitting that he "may have been a little too aggressive," he praises the way in which Berg joined music to dramatic expression in the same opera. "In Wozzeck, the contradiction between pure and theatrical music has completely disappeared." Boulez's recent recording of the opera (CBS Masterworks) signals this change of attitude with its unfailing projection of just...
...NEVER abandoned her faith in the communist system. Often, in her speeches and in private, she talks of the need for a "counter-vision with counter-values" to replace the American dream. "When I talk about the need for the people to own the means of production," she explains, "I don't mean that each worker in a factory would own the machine he works at. It's different. It's that the profits of a company, instead of going into the pockets of the owner, come back to benefit the people who work for the company...