Word: portraying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Holt encounters large obstacles in trying to portray any alternatives to current education. He has defined the problem so well that his solutions, like those of most other writers on education, are finally inadequate. Most of What Do I Do Monday? depicts a sort of ideal school. It would be a free and open place which presented more favorable conditions for growth than the outside world. That would be the only justification for its existence. A student would be free to do what he wanted in its rooms full of books, experiments, and other people, the prime resource material...
Academic Freedom. The University of Buenos Aires, the main organ for propagating European classical-humanist traditions, oppresses national forces of creative self-determination by institutionalizing the imitation of models from the oppressor cultures and by mouthing their ideology ("free trade," "liberalism," and the one crop economy). Professors of course portray the university as "an island of democracy" in a sea of whatever (familiar words on American campuses), obscuring its reactionary political alignment...
Universality. Just as the bourgeoisie likes to conceive of itself as "citizens of the world" bourgeois writers prefer to portray "the human condition," the idealization of Man apart from the economic and political situation of Argentine man in the particular, oppressed man. And of course, as everyone knows, universal culture is centered in the Developed nations (where the money is) and in the Developed classes. Solanas shows a literary party (at the PepsiCo building) for leading novelist Mujica Lainez (winner of the Kennedy Prize, the Gold Medal of the Italian government, and other imperialist trophies) who is presenting his latest...
Carter, like Spillane's Mike Hammer, is a homicidal knave, and in dealing with him the film takes on the very qualities it is trying to portray. It wallows in its ceaseless bloodbath and emerges like its protagonist - sleazy and second-rate...
...silly to suggest that I view any criticism of the Panthers as racist. My point is that PL's "criticism" of the Panthers has been un-comradely and factional in tone. It is also disingenuous to portray SDS as "active participants" in a struggle where unarmed Panthers are arbitrarily rounded up, jailed, or killed in cold blood...