Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...teacher, who had a particularly intense dislike for Simone, her daring philosophical syntheses and her belligerent leftism, labelled her the "Red Virgin." When she received her teaching certificate, he arranged to have the Education ministry refuse her a post in the industrial, union-base cities she had requested, and to have her sent instead to a small town called Le Puy in central France. (This professor is rumored to have said, "we'll send her...as far away as possible so that we shall never hear of her again...
...attend free, compulsory state schools. For the nation's 3.7 million black students, however, attendance at separate state schools is optional, tuition costs $50 a year, and schooling is generally inadequate. The government spends ten times as much per pupil on whites as on blacks; the student-teacher ratio is 20 to 1 for whites, 60 to 1 for blacks. Better education was one of the major demands by young demonstrators in last year's riots in Soweto and other black townships, which left 500 dead. Blacks able to afford a good education have been pressing to enter...
...from photographers and editors who find their audiences increasingly difficult to shock. Alex Liberman, editorial director of Conde Nast publications, considers it "just an experiment with something new, a trend, a moment of spice." Feminists take a darker view. "Men are feeling guilty and sexually threatened," says Cambridge, Mass., Teacher Jean Kilbourne, who lectures on the influence of the communications industry. "The image of the abused woman is a logical extension of putting the uppity woman in her place." Many psychiatrists agree that the trend reflects the emotional problems of males. Says Manhattan Psychoanalyst Lawrence Hatterer: "Men's angry...
...succeeded in putting flesh on the bones of their Afro-American heritage. "We all knew what slavery was, by hearsay and by family tradition," noted Boston Journalist Robert Jordan. "But this put all those feelings in living color where you've got to believe them." Said Little Rock Teacher Charles Pruitt: "The black kids resent what has happened and say, 'They couldn't do it to me like that,' but the white kids say, 'But look, I'm not like that...
Roots profoundly disturbed white viewers as well. Said Karen Bernard, 26, an unemployed Brooklyn teacher, "I cried all the way through one show. I have a child, and the fact that black women lived in fear of losing their children was devastating." Added Beverly Stallworth of Manchester, N.H.: "I feel some shame that I never cared enough to learn what it was like...