Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
"Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad." Euripides Current Wisdom • • KULTUR NOTES: Another thoughtful aperfu into the highbrow world of the Hollywoodians: HOLLYWOOD—Barbara...
...K: No...
...Karen: Not really...
...The old image lingers, however, in the minds of producers and casting directors, many of whom don't even want to interview the former Barbara Seagull...
...This book was organized for practitioners who want to bring "more life and better learning into classrooms [by] putting feeling and thinking together in the learning process...
...B: Let's write them on the ,board...
...9—While parents of Dallas school children agonize over court-ordered desegregation, parents in this suburb north of Dallas have voluntarily agreed to send 300 of their children to a previously all-black elementary school in order to achieve integration...
...I want to attract attention as an actress...
...Here is a portion of one high school interchange: "Bev: Karen, do you see any relationship between the professor and the student in the [Ionesco] play and the classrooms of today...
...To an interviewer from United Features Syndicate FEMINIST DIALECTICS: Luscious food for thought, served up by a leading feminist philosophe: Rape in its primary meaning permeates our lives...
...Its limitations define potential directions for the field...
...pp...
...Stop spending money for the wrong things, and that means stop spending money for genocidal war and nuclear warfare...
...K: I don't have to do what you say...
...I took the name Seagull after a very personal and profound experience...
...We gave the impression we weren't serious about our acting...
...K: I don't want to...
...David and I were like children about our lifestyle...
...B: Yes...
...B: Okay, let's talk for a moment about stripping someone of his humanity, which is a kind of murder...
...Does that say anything to you...
...214, 215) —Phi Delta Kappan November 1975 MEDIA BIAS: Cultural depravity seeps into the editorial page of the once discriminating Baltimore Sun: The Alternative...
...She has lost weight...
...And I destroyed it by telling the story so many times it lost its meaning for me...
...His new book deserves attention both for its practical value and as a reflection of the larger field of humanistic education...
...Karen, what makes a person be a person and not some sort of robot...
...K: (laughing) Okay...
...The most vivid examples of confluent processes are dialogues of events in the classroom...
...Baltimore Sun November 4, 1975 THE NEW VOLUNTARISM: In this glorious new era of candor and authenticity the incomparable Times of New York reports on the new spirit of voluntarism burning through our court-ordered democracy: RICHARDSON, Tex., Aug...
...B: Yeah, and you resisted me...
...Don't worry about what you say...
...New York Times Book Review October 12, 1975 DRIVEL: In responding to the asinine query "What should be done to solve New York City's dilemma...
...No longer does she wear tattered denims and raggedy blouses...
...I want you to react in any way you'd like—angry, complying, happy, bored, or whatever...
...B: (stopping the activity) How do you feel...
...B: I said to scratch your knee...
...The transformation in Barbara is electric...
...We sounded as if we were preaching...
...Chicago Tribune November 10, 1975 THE LIFE OF THE MIND: What follows is an excerpt from a review of a book by a Mr...
...K: (coming alive) Yes, you were denying all of those things in me and I was refusing to meet you...
...is one of the liveliest, best written, best edited journals of ideas and politics we know...
...Lewis Mumford heads for the empyrian: Make the patient as comfortable as possible...
...She is possessed of a newfound serenity...
...It attracted attention but not the kind I wanted...
...The voluntary program, called "Pacesetter," was begun by the Richardson Independent School District after Judge William M. Taylor, Jr...
...K: (long pause) I don't know...
...I felt we were really separated, no contact...
...B: Doesn't matter, just do it...
...All of that is behind me now," she said softly...
...But the guerrilla war of men against women, suppressed or transformed though it may be in civilization and polite society, never ends...
...B: How are teachers murderers and students victims...
...K: (progressively louder and more agitated) No...
...K: I thought your demands were stupid...
...I'm going to play a game with you for a moment...
...B: Do it...
...rape is the hidden foundation for too much of our social order, the cardinal act of defilement by which men assert possession and control over the other half of humanity...
...B: You see how the professor does the same to the student...
...B: (laughing) So did I. "(Now I point to the board again, to Karen's words...
...Wars between tribes and nations, clashes of ignorant armies, arise and fall away...
...K: I guess he's calling teachers murderers and students victims...
...It's a drain on the national economy, and the state of our cities is a result of the way we've spent our national income...
...New York Times July 30, 1975 The Alternative: An American Spectator January 1976 37...
...B: Yeah...
...K: Like I'm not gonna move...
...At 27, Barbara has returned to the mainstream, wiser, more beautiful, and with a 3-year-old son, Free...
...K: No...
...We publish it in the public interest, and in the hope that someone somewhere is listening: George Brown has been a seminal force in helping teachers develop educational methods that promote students' personal growth...
...of the Federal District Court ruled last month that Richard-son's all-black Hamilton Park Elementary School must be desegregated or he would design desegregation plans that might include forced busing...
...K: Why...
...K: Like you were trying to control me...
...B: See any connection between your observations here and what just happened between you and me...
...B: Okay, at the end of the playlonesco refers to the professor as the murderer and the student as the victim...
...When this occurs, students experience confluence—release of emotional energy, excitement, and a sense of significance combined with increased mental functioning...
...K: Creativity, thinking, individualism, questioning...
...Euripides Current Wisdom • • KULTUR NOTES: Another thoughtful aperfu into the highbrow world of the Hollywoodians: HOLLYWOOD—Barbara Hershey, the tender, sweet-faced actress who changed her name to Seagull and lived for seven years with David Carradine, has resurrected herself and her career by dropping both...
...The strengths of the book are the strengths of the field...
...it's too late to operate...
...Julian Bond, famed merchant of brotherhood, remarks on the afflictions of a cripple: If George Wallace had lost his speech instead of the use of his legs, he would have committed suicide...
...How'd you feel about me...
...The Earth Mother spell has evaporated...
...Do what I say...
...I won't tell...
...K: Yes, dehumanizes her...
...New York Times August 10, 1975 LOVE THY NEIGHBOR DEPT.: Mr...
...B: Karen, scratch your knee...
...George Brown...
...B: Scratch your knee...
Vol. 9 • January 1976 • No. 4
