Radical SDS Lectures Explore Literature as Social Tool
Abigail Collins notes SDS students at Columbia push a Marxist view of literature through the Project for Radical Literary Studies. Michael Friedman and Fred Whitehead lead seminars linking Blake to social change, with March talks on imperialism and theater, and upcoming lectures on Melville and Yeats.
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Port Huron
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Fred Whitehead
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Columba
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Laura Foner
Rome
al Seymoski
Thompson
London
Tervor
Jean Marc Blanchard
Frederck Ewa
Brecht
Dana Johnson
Melville
Conor Cruuse O'Brien
Yeats
Morthrop Frye
Frye
Pot Head
J P Thompson
Mike Friedman
Starkie Speaks On Flaubert In May Lecture
Professor Enid Starkie visiting from Oxford will discuss Flauberts Sentimental Education at the Virginia Gildersleeve lecture on May 5 at 3 pm. She argues the 1857 work marks his greatest development and notes her forthcoming second volume.
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Enid Starkie
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Orf Flaubert
Prospera Premier Delights Barnard Film Society
Prospera, Barnard College’s first film, premiered March 27, 1968 before trustees, faculty and administrators. A fifteen minute delay due to a faulty projector gave way to a vivid study of Prospera’s adventures in New York with innovative camera work, reflections, intercut dream sequences, freeze frames, and a lively sound montage.
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Barnard Film Society
Fromm Questions Innate Violence in Human Nature
Ellen Horwin reports on Erich Fromm’s lectures at the YM-YWHA exploring whether aggression stems from an innate death instinct or is driven by social factors. The talks review Freud’s death and life instincts, contrast theories of aggression, and consider implications for war and violence prevention.
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Martin Luther King
Erich Fromm
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Fromm
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