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totalitarianism. I can't present a contradiction to the views here, even though I
can't agree with them, and in total I give an A for entertaining and disturbing
provocativeness.
Well written, but sounds like it was written by a Rhinoceros. A convincing
argument but something tells me she missed the point.
This slip of paper indicated that the author of the paper had been iden–
tified ("she") and added a hesitant
B/B- .
NB+ was not accompanied by a commentary. One slip of paper did
not have a grade but, in beautiful handwriting, asked:
Transgression or transcendence? The student could either be a Stalinist or a fas–
cist, but not a revolutionary. Yes, there are reasons
to
make noise in a stifling
society, but the "transgressions" are neither progressions, or revolutions. Fas–
cist character is partly rebellious, of course; the question is that the (justified, I
suppose) rebellious impulses are manipulated by reactionary social groups.
Change for the sake of change is not praiseworthy.
Another
NB+
was justified as follows:
Fear is not the only reason for which he doesn't become a Rhino. But a good
point.
Finally, an A included a brief note that seemed addressed to the East–
ern European professor:
Although I had a different interpretation I find this one to be very interesting,
subversive, and not unfounded.
Obviously, the class had not been apathetic at all. Nor was it lacking
in suppleness of perception.
The Eastern European also had something to learn, as it were, from
his students' spirit of fair play.
I
KEPT IN TOUCH
with Nancy after she was no longer my student and
even later when, having received a master's degree in fine arts from
Bard, she went to Japan, where she taught English for a while.
