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This offensive lineman is now especially invaluable to the Eagles. Updated p. Lauder is unapologetic about his aspirations for Friends. At the end of what had been a very tumultuous school year, the board — half of which is appointed by Quakers and otherwise includes an assortment of parents and alumni — sent out a letter to the community expressing its confidence in Lauder.
Lauder said his job has changed immeasurably since he arrived at Friends. He is now trying to juggle the demands of running a competitive and pricey Manhattan private school with an institutional culture that empowers community members to not only raise their voices but to expect to be heard.
Just a few months before the Frisch incident, some 20 parents had raised questions about the scheduled speaking engagement of a visiting scholar, Dave Zirin, a sportswriter for the Nation magazine and a Friends alumnus who had been critical of Israel in his writings.
That no one has accused Frisch of being an anti-Semite was beside the point: His invocation of the Nazi salute in a classroom full of high school students, regardless of his intentions, was enough to end his career. On Aug. Now the school presented two witnesses, both former Friends students, to describe them.
Frisch, who first learned about the claims after his termination, denied ever having told a student to kill himself and said that he had no memory of the inappropriate touching that had been described. The hearing, which was closed to the public — I had to rely on secondhand accounts — lasted a little more than five hours.
The arbitrator will decide in the coming weeks to uphold the termination or to order the school to reinstate Frisch. A few days after the hearing, Frisch opened the door of his home in Brooklyn in a short-sleeved shirt, khaki shorts and bare feet.
He told me about his family background. Frisch grew up Quaker on the edge of a farm in upstate New York and attended a Quaker college, Haverford. He told me that he never intended to become a teacher. When he came to Friends in , he was planning to stay only a year before returning to Caltech to complete his Ph.
He eventually became a Friends parent, too; he and his wife sent both of their children, who are now out of college, to the school. Frisch enjoyed an exalted status at Friends that flowed from his years of service to the school and, above all, his Quaker faith. Every year, he helped lead a three-day retreat for graduating seniors at Powell House, a Quaker conference center in upstate New York, where he would tell outgoing students that even though they were leaving the school, the doors of the meetinghouse would always be open to them.
The dynamics of the classroom are changing. These changes are partly specific to the hothouse environment of the campus in But they also connect to something much bigger. It's hardly surprising that Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator was banned in Germany, and in every country occupied by Germany, in A film that mocked Adolf Hitler was never going to be the Nazi High Command's first choice of Friday night entertainment.
The more surprising thing, from today's perspective, is that Chaplin was warned that it might not be shown in Britain or the US, either. Britain's appeasement policy kept going until March , and the US didn't enter World War Two until December , a year after The Great Dictator was released, so when Chaplin was scripting and shooting the film — his first proper talkie — colleagues at the studio he co-owned were afraid that no government would let it be seen.
Also the English office was very concerned about an anti-Hitler picture and doubted whether it could be shown in Britain. More worrying letters came from the New York office imploring me not to make the film, declaring it would never be shown in England or America.
But Chaplin wouldn't be dissuaded. He knew that The Great Dictator was worth making, and, sure enough, it was a box office smash: 's second biggest hit in the US. On the 80th anniversary of the film's release, Chaplin's prescience is even more startling. The Great Dictator is a masterpiece that isn't just a delightful comedy and a grim agitprop drama, but a spookily accurate insight into Hitler's psychology. What's even more remarkable is that Chaplin didn't just capture Hitler, but every dictator who has followed in his goose steps.
If you want to see a crystalline reflection of the 21st Century's despots, you'll find it in a film that came out 80 years ago. A German propaganda film denounced him as one of "the foreign Jews who come to Germany" — never mind that he wasn't Jewish — while the US press nicknamed him "The 20th-Century Moses" because he funded the escape of thousands of Jewish refugees.
When he started work on the film initially titled "The Dictator", he was "a man on a mission", says Louvish. But Chaplin was very serious about what he wanted to say. The Great Dictator wasn't just a film. It really was something that was required. And I remember that because I was always crazy about horses and riding, so riding boots I knew.
And, he would make us, my sister and I, he would make us help him; he would sit down and we would have to help him pull off those boots. There were photos of her dogs and paintings of other dogs. There was a plastic brown horse head hung against a turquoise wall.
There was one of those pictures that changes when you tilt your head from one direction to another — that was also of horses. There were stuffed animals and figurines of monkeys kissing and her California State Parks Foundation card was presented on her mantle, with her married name — Ursula Matthews. Would that be okay?
So, the three of us drank coffee and ate cake as we silently and seriously watched. With every joke that made me want to laugh out loud, I looked over at Ursula who sat petting her dog.
I was trying to watch the movie through her lens, as a child of the Nazi party. It was a nice fitting uniform… the blouse was white. And I think the buttons were gold-ish.
And then you had a jacket over it that was kind of short… and it was kind of velvety. You got away from your parents. But perhaps the greatest connection I found between her and JoJo was the awakening -- the idea that what one so deeply believed in can prove to be so wrong. This is the core and the urgency of so many perpetrator stories, that a person has the ability to change their perspective and that prejudice is not a fixed emotion.
When the movie ended, I looked over to Ursula. Ursula looked towards Xenia.
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