Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into terrorists baffles and unsettles many parents, who almost uniformly describe their children as having been wellrounded, industrious and studious until they went off to college and became captured by drugs and radicalism. Typically, Steve Soliah and his sisters were regarded by their father Martin, a high school English teacher in Palmdale, Calif., as "good right-wing Republicans who got up every morning and pledged allegiance to the flag." Steve was a crew-cut football hero in high school. Kathleen was a church youth leader and an energetic pep squad member. And Josephine once wanted to be a nurse. Martin...
Despite the penalty, clusters of teachers kept up the strike, often marching in picket lines inside the "buffer zones" set up for antibusing demonstrators near such trouble-prone schools as South Boston and Charlestown. Administrators and teacher aides tried to hold some classes, with indifferent success. "I've got seven kids," said one South End mother, "and there's no way I can keep them home. But they're not really learning very much in school this week...
This documentary collage, currently on view at Washington, D.C.'s Ford's Theater, is at least as old as the Salem witch hunts. Author-Teacher-Critic Eric Bentley has arranged some of the testimony elicited from suspected Communists and fellow travelers by the House Un-American Activities Committee in the late '40s and early '50s. The witnesses are exclusively from the Hollywood and Broadway communities and include, among others, such figures as Larry Parks, Jose Ferrer, Abe Burrows, Elia Kazan, Jerome Robbins, Lillian Hellman, Lionel Slander, Arthur Miller and Paul Robeson. (Bentley seems no less inclined...
...Best Teacher...
...Mousavi Garmaroudi, a teacher with the ministry of education in Iran, was arrested toward the end of 1973. The Iranian authorities have never announced any charges against him... Vida Tabrizi, sociologist and researcher at the University of Teheran, was arrested in July 1972 and detained in Teheran's Ghas Prison..." (excerpted from the Newsletter of the Committee for Artistic and Intellectual Freedom in Iran...