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This is probably the most ambitious course offered by The Film School and is probably the most difficult to assess in terms of worth. One Vis Stud senior at Harvard said, "I'm worried that they'll just tell you what buttons to push and you'll go out and push the right buttons and everything will come out fine. But that's not the way to get quality stuff." The staff at UCA insist, however, that highly personalized attention will be given to each student with a strong emphasis on editing. Each workshop is limited to 15 students...
...Foster Dulles. Dean Rusk embraced the theory throughout Kennedy and Johnson presidencies and Nixon dragged them forcefully to the fore when antiwar dissent rose. The rotten apple and domino visions of the world struggle could be defended in their time, but realities have changed, notably America's relative power vis-ŕ-vis the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union's own role in the Communist movement. In the heady days after the war, Americans felt, as French Journalist André Fontaine says, "that they were the best, most capable and most qualified to act as disinterested policemen in a world destined...
Kottmeyer, who retired in June, is especially proud of student performance vis-a-vis national averages ("for city kids, it's unheard of"), and noted that blacks showed greater advances than their white classmates. As he sees it, the project constitutes "a substantial refutation of the idea that black kids are inferior by their heritage, and therefore nothing can be done for them." Every bit as enthusiastic, many students used their newly acquired words to write glowing thank-you notes to Kottmeyer. Excerpts...
MOREOVER, as a result of the split, each faction moved to strengthen its position vis a vis the other and, in the process, moved further away from the mainstream of Harvard life. Trying to begin organizing workers, WSA members began getting jobs, often full-time ones, as workers at Harvard or in Cambridge and treated the University to the amusing spectacle of seeing its recent graduates sling hash in the dining halls. Members of NAC also tried to find a revolutionary constituency: they searched among Greater Boston blacks, tenant unions, street people and working class teenagers...
...reporting Kathy Boudin's parents' refusal to cooperate with the police following the explosion which took three lives and demolished the Wilkerson house [March 23], TIME has accidentally touched on the vital element of America's woes visa-vis "the disenchanted young people...