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...
...B: Doesn't matter, just do it...
...When this occurs, students experience confluence—release of emotional energy, excitement, and a sense of significance combined with increased mental functioning...
...We gave the impression we weren't serious about our acting...
...I want to attract attention as an actress...
...The Earth Mother spell has evaporated...
...B: How are teachers murderers and students victims...
...Wars between tribes and nations, clashes of ignorant armies, arise and fall away...
...His new book deserves attention both for its practical value and as a reflection of the larger field of humanistic education...
...K: (coming alive) Yes, you were denying all of those things in me and I was refusing to meet you...
...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...
...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...
...K: Creativity, thinking, individualism, questioning...
...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...
...She has lost weight...
...B: You see how the professor does the same to the student...
...I took the name Seagull after a very personal and profound experience...
...K: Why...
...How'd you feel about me...
...David and I were like children about our lifestyle...
...K: I don't want to...
...George Brown...
...Karen: Not really...
...B: Yes...
...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...
...B: See any connection between your observations here and what just happened between you and me...
...B: (laughing) So did I. "(Now I point to the board again, to Karen's words...
...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...
...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...
...K: Yes, dehumanizes her...
...Its limitations define potential directions for the field...
...B: I said to scratch your knee...
...B: Do it...
...K: No...
...is one of the liveliest, best written, best edited journals of ideas and politics we know...
...I won't tell...
...B: Scratch your knee...
...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...
...She is possessed of a newfound serenity...
...I felt we were really separated, no contact...
...The transformation in Barbara is electric...
...Does that say anything to you...
...The voluntary program, called "Pacesetter," was begun by the Richardson Independent School District after Judge William M. Taylor, Jr...
...K: No...
...B: Yeah...
...New York Times August 10, 1975 LOVE THY NEIGHBOR DEPT.: Mr...
...K: Like I'm not gonna move...
...Stop spending money for the wrong things, and that means stop spending money for genocidal war and nuclear warfare...
...K: (laughing) Okay...
...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: Yeah, and you resisted me...
...B: Let's write them on the ,board...
...The strengths of the book are the strengths of the field...
...B: Okay, at the end of the playlonesco refers to the professor as the murderer and the student as the victim...
...K: (long pause) I don't know...
...K: I guess he's calling teachers murderers and students victims...
...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...
...it's too late to operate...
...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...
...Don't worry about what you say...
...B: (stopping the activity) How do you feel...
...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...
...And I destroyed it by telling the story so many times it lost its meaning for me...
...But the guerrilla war of men against women, suppressed or transformed though it may be in civilization and polite society, never ends...
...K: I thought your demands were stupid...
...At 27, Barbara has returned to the mainstream, wiser, more beautiful, and with a 3-year-old son, Free...
...K: (progressively louder and more agitated) No...
...No longer does she wear tattered denims and raggedy blouses...
...K: Like you were trying to control me...
...We sounded as if we were preaching...
...B: Karen, scratch your knee...
...Lewis Mumford heads for the empyrian: Make the patient as comfortable as possible...
...I want you to react in any way you'd like—angry, complying, happy, bored, or whatever...
...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...
...B: Okay, let's talk for a moment about stripping someone of his humanity, which is a kind of murder...
...pp...
...Do what I say...
...New York Times July 30, 1975 The Alternative: An American Spectator January 1976 37...
...K: I don't have to do what you say...
...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...
...214, 215) —Phi Delta Kappan November 1975 MEDIA BIAS: Cultural depravity seeps into the editorial page of the once discriminating Baltimore Sun: The Alternative...
...The most vivid examples of confluent processes are dialogues of events in the classroom...
...All of that is behind me now," she said softly...
...Chicago Tribune November 10, 1975 THE LIFE OF THE MIND: What follows is an excerpt from a review of a book by a Mr...
...I'm going to play a game with you for a moment...
...Karen, what makes a person be a person and not some sort of robot...
...It attracted attention but not the kind I wanted...
Vol. 9 • January 1976 • No. 4
