Word: shadows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overseas correspondent of the New York Times declared that "Bolshevism is the revengeful shadow of reckless modern materialism.' . . . Native attempts to decapitate a beast of this nature by military imprisonment and misdirected propaganda results only in three heads springing up where one grew before...
...present, the Harvard shadow school offers 25 courses on determinedly "relevant" topics, ranging from radical politics to the ethics of middle-class suburbia. The quality of the bull sessions is necessarily uneven. David A. Lane, a teaching fellow in history, is studying Claude Lévi-Strauss in a New College course led by a senior majoring in folklore and mythology. Lane calls the meetings "the best intellectual discussions I've ever participated...
...biggest of the shadow schools is Washington Area Free University, a consortium of 2,000 students who also attend the capital area's formal universities. Courses cover everything from drugs and Herman Hesse's novels to macrobiotic diets and Herbert Marcuse's philosophy. Like free university students elsewhere, W.A.F.U. participants subscribe to 19th century Educator Mark Hopkins' heroic if hoary notion that all that is necessary for education to take place is two people...
...reject the intellectual hierarchy that is basic to learning. Teachers, after all, are supposed to know more than students. If both are "equal," the result is initially stimulating and ultimately numbing. Everyone goes his way-inward. At San Francisco State College, for example, the student committee that screens the shadow school's new courses has found itself dealing increasingly with "teachers" who cannot teach. Says Bill Talcott, a graduate student in English and a member of the committee: "We get a lot of people who are so far into their thing that they are unable to relate...
...only by reflection. Karina looks and sounds a tart, but she has little of the compelling eroticism that the part requires. At his worst, Herve should convey a quality that is pretty deadly; Drouot's menace lies mainly in a serious case of five o'clock shadow...