Word: blackboards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Born on the Fourth of July, directed by Oliver Stone (Platoon), is a Viet Nam melodrama pitched at high decibel level for 2 hr. 23 min. The movie is a jeremiad not just against the war but also against the cultural authorities who encouraged it from the pulpit, the blackboard, the dining-room table and the movie screen. This is an anti-Hollywood movie too; everything that was terrific in, say, Top Gun -- the war, the sex, the male bonding -- is found to be toxic here. It is also a one-character story whose lead actor must grow and shrivel...
...four whites. The private white schools flourished, eventually moving into handsome quarters upon 53 acres in Farmville, the county's commercial center. The public schools struggled along in a state of mediocrity, trying to repair the damage. Vanessa Venable remembers a 13-year-old girl standing at a blackboard. She was asked to add 34 and 26. She began to weep uncontrollably. She did not even know how to write a number. So she and Mrs. Venable stood at the blackboard for long minutes, crying hopelessly together...
...sentence on Bi's crumbling blackboard reads, "He has corn and other things -----------in his fields...
...another student, who asked not to be identified, says his intial section leader in Physics 55b this term solved problems on the blackboard without uttering a word because he knew so little English...
...involvement in promoting campus-wide dialogue about issues of sexual orientation stems from homophobic reactions to Defeat Homophobia's Kiss-In--reactions which I heard expressed at an open forum provided by the Mather House masters and reactions such as "Harvard Faggots Die" written on a blackboard in Mather late at night. I became even more interested when many students at Mather began to display pink triangles in their windows to show support for the bisexual, gay and lesbian community, and I hoped to use the energy of the discussion at Mather as momentum to create a campus-wide dialogue...