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Oh, hi...

First thing we want to do is to give you the daily bulletin.

You'd be surprised. A little notice somewhere

that you might think doesn't concern you

might change your whole life

might decide on what college you'll go to

or might decide on what activity.

And then Joyce has a few things to say.

Right, Joyce?

Alright, the thought for the day.

Life is cause and effect.

One creates his tomorrow at every moment

by his motives, thoughts, and deeds of today.

And this question of cause and effect, you know

as I say, I might read something that might change your life.

Anoche conocimos a un filósofo existencialista.

Anoche conocimos...

- A un... - A un...

Existencialista.

Existencialista.

Quién puede pronunciar esta palabra?

Existencialista? Carla?

El nombre del hombre?

Frances?

No?

- Sí. - Sartre.

Sí, Sartre.

Y el nombre es su apellido, pero el nombre?

Jean Paul.

Muy bien.

Excellente, Roger.

Y ahora, hmm?

Jean Paul Sartre.

Existencialista.

Existencialista.

Este lado.

Existencialista.

Existencialista.

Este lado.

Existencialista.

A un filósofo.

A un filósofo.

A un filósofo existencialista.

Pa, pa, pa, pa...

One, two, three, four.

One, pa, pa, pa...

Two, three...

One, two, three...

What do you mean you can't take gym?

You get dressed in the morning?

- Yeah. - Do you get undressed?

- Yeah. - Well, you can get into a gym outfit.

I can't take... Yeah, I know.

Alright, well, you get into a gym outfit.

- I can't take gym, though. - We'll decide that.

I have a doctor's thing.

I'm sick and tired of you talking, you just...

My mother was in, though.

I spoke to your mother.

Now, look.

I'm going to the doctor today.

Now, look...

You'd better be in a gym outfit.

You'd better be in a gym outfit.

We'll determine whether you take exercise or not.

We'll determine that.

I'm not even allowed...

Why don't you just...

I'm not even supposed to come to school.

Hey, look.

I'm going to tell you something.

Don't you talk, and you just listen.

You come prepared in a gym outfit when you go to gym.

- Is that clear? - Yeah.

Alright.

Don't tell me you won't do anything.

Nobody's going to put you into an uncompromising position.

But you'll come dressed in a gym outfit.

I said I would.

You're suspended.

- Go on, wait outside. - I said I would.

Go outside.

Oh, man... I said I would.

You got a book out on the fifth of January.

Oui, oui, mais avant de manger

il est nécessaire de...

Préparer le dîner.

Préparer le dîner.

Ou préparer le déjeuner.

Ou préparer le petit...

Déjeuner.

Oui. Mais en France, c'est différent.

En Amérique, on mange généralement dans la cuisine.

Mais en France, oû est-ce qu'on mange le petit déjeuner?

Le déjeuner? Le dîner? Oû?

Généralement, naturellement il y a des exceptions...

mais en France, oû est-ce qu'on mange?

Dans la salle à manger.

Exactement, dans la salle à manger.

Chez nous, en Amérique, c'est différent.

On mange plutôt dans la cuisine.

II y a des exceptions, naturellement.

Mais généralement, dans la cuisine. Oui?

En France, non.

On prépare dans la cuisine

on mange dans la salle à manger.

No, no, no, no. A flunking student...

No, no, a flunking student

shouldn't receive such accolades as "fabulous".

Fabulous!

Now, that's all I'm saying.

Should a flunking...

I could see maybe a C student have a "fabulous" here.

But a flunking student, "fabulous"? Very interesting.

Why don't you put it in reverse?

Why don't you say...

why don't you say that a student who can write fabulous papers

shouldn't flunk?

Shouldn't do things which would cause her to flunk?

You see?

No... it depends on the language.

I've always found that a man who uses the word "sympathy"

is never sympathetic.

Have you ever found that, Doctor...?

Tell the truth.

And I have no redress, alright? Nothing.

- No redress? - No, no redress.

- What do you mean? - I mean, I can't...

No, all I want you to say

that at least...

I'm right about these few papers, that's all.

What do you want me to tell you, that you're right about these papers?

I want you to say that a girl who receives "fabulous"

and all these marks shouldn't flunk.

I can only say this.

That the teacher, in reading these papers

thought they were fabulous

but that the total mark involves more than just those papers.

That's all I can tell you.

But I think this is a rather unique situation.

Wouldn't you say so? Rather unique?

You would be happy if I say it's unique?

- I'd be happy. - Alright.

I would say it's somewhat unique.

Is it compassionate for a teacher to write "fabulous"?

Let me get back to this again.

And the girl figures she's doing well.

"Very good, Rhona."

And especially this "fabulous".

And then, finally, she gets her report card.

And the girl is stunned, it's another E.

- Well... - Is it also fair for a girl

and I think...

Mr Schuster will concur.

Does the girl cause any trouble, her deportment?

Is she wild? Talk a lot?

Well, she did get a satisfactory mark in cooperation.

Why did she get an E the first time?

- It's completely against her character. - In behaviour.

- In behaviour. - Completely...

- Why did she get an E the first time? - Completely against her character.

- An E? - Yes, an E.

- In behaviour. - In behaviour.

What did she get?

- An E. - E is a grade.

It's not a behaviour mark.

Did she tell... what did she say?

- Was it a three? - A four, three.

The lowest you can get, I imagine.

We cannot judge Rhona's mark

based purely on this teacher's remarks of these papers.

This is all I'm saying.

Rhona, limited in many ways

knew world events, and the world about her.

She knew the different forms of government

the different structures of types of government.

And here, Rhona failed.

Because she failed in all these tests.

We can only judge on the basis of performance.

You may have hidden talent in you, sir

but if you don't perform it, we don't know.

- It's true. - It is, like I say.

And the world will recognise you only by your performance.

That's true, that's true.

But if you want your daughter

to be basically a well-adjusted...

ultimately, I'll use the word "happiness" in a very broad sense

and I know that happiness is not the ultimate thing in life

but it's important

you cannot impose

preconceived values and dreams

on an individual, including a child.

You cannot do that.

But again, I want you to understand

that part of your job is to deal with Rhona

as a sympathetic and understanding father

but recognising her limitations

and the fact that she's a person in her own right

and that if you impose too much your desires on her

even without pushing them or forcing her

she may react in a way which may be damaging to her, too.

Michael, this has to do with your cutting, what is it, physical science?

No, sir, I never cut it.

No, I mean, Mrs Ganin was yelling at me after class

and she starts going off.

You see, somehow I was making noise in the lunch line

and the truth is, Mr Allen

I was behaving in the back of the room.

I didn't open my mouth, cos the other kids were

and I didn't feel like goofing off

and she thought it was me.

And she calls me up and she starts yelling at me

and I say, "It wasn't me."

And she starts yelling, yelling. "Rah, rah!"

So I figured, Mr Allen

could you stand there and listen to a lady yell?

I figure I'd go out and talk to her later

when she's calmed down.

And she was pretty worked up.

And I went to walk out and she goes, "You don't leave."

I go, "I'll speak to you later at a better time."

And I walked out, because...

First of all, Michael, you showed poor judgement.

When you are being addressed by someone older than you are

or in a seat of authority

it's your job to respect and listen.

She didn't ask you to jump from the Empire State Building.

She's not asking you for your blood.

She's asking for a little bit of time to help you out.

Now, here's the thing.

What you should have done is showed some character

by saying, "OK, I will go to your detention

"but may I speak with you and get this matter corrected?"

She didn't assign me a detention.

- Well, according to this... - No, they said...

"Given choice of a detention at 7:30 or at 1:45"

and you refused to take either. Now, what is that?

They sent me down to Mr Walsh

and I tried to explain to him and he started yelling at me too.

Well, no one's going to yell at you.

Well, I don't feel I have to take anybody screaming at me for nothing.

No, well, there's a point to that

but in the meantime

it's time you showed a little character of your own, right?

- Yes, sir. - I would take the detention

and then you can come back and say

"Now, I took the detention, may I speak with you?"

I can't speak to that man...

Well, you can try.

Do you know...

now, another time in that class, this is another reason why...

Sit down.

This is another reason why I won't take it.

I was given a... these kids took a book

and they were going to throw it at me, right?

And the teacher caught the kid with the book in his hand

and he took it off the other kid's book.

The other kid stood up and says, "Give me my damn book back."

So Mrs Ganin says, "You two get out."

You know, "I don't want language around here

"and no use to get up for it."

Do you know they brought me into the detention room?

They brought me into Mr Walsh's room

and they got me dragged in for nothing.

And I tried to explain it to him, and he says

"Will you take the detention?"

Which was utterly ridiculous.

I see we're out to establish something, aren't we?

Yes.

We're out to establish that you can be a man

and you can take orders.

We want to prove to them that you can take orders.

But, Mr Allen, see, it's all against my principles.

You have to stand for something.

Yes, but I think your principles aren't involved here.

I think it's a question now of...

of proving yourself to be a man.

It's a question here of how...

how do we follow the rules and regulations?

If there's a mistake made, there's an approach to it.

I think you don't fight with a teacher.

I think you ask permission to talk.

And ask them to listen to you.

Now, this is what you didn't do.

Now, if you had taken your detention

and, after all, they didn't require much from you.

The teacher felt you were out of order

and, in her judgement, you deserved a detention.

I don't see anything wrong with assigning you a detention.

And I think you should prove yourself.

You should show that you can take the detention when given it.

I should prove that I am a man and that's what I intend to do

by doing what I feel

in my opinion, is what I am doing is right.

Are you going to take the detention or aren't you?

I feel that you should.

I'll take it, but under protest.

Alright, then, you take it under protest.

- That's good. - Today?

Yes, I'd like you to take it today.

- Today after school? - Yes.

- Alright, what room, 120? - 118.

Alright.

What are you doing here?

- On lunch. - Well, go to the lunchroom.

Goodbye.

Where are you going?

Hey, Nate.

- You got a pass? - Yeah.

You got a pass?

Got a pass?

How about you?

Hang up.

- Pardon me? - Let's go.

It's for emergencies, let's get on the ball.

Let's go.

I told you to get off of there. Let's go!

Excuse me, Mr Murdock.

You see, I'm at school and a man's yelling at me.

You get a pass.

Alright, alright. Bye.

I had to call my insurance company.

Well, you get a pass.

But I have lunch now, I have lunch.

- Don't make no difference. - I was coming from my lunch.

Lunch means lunch.

- It doesn't mean make phone calls. - Alright.

You got a pass?

OK.

And when the dust had lifted, the men saw what had occurred.

There was Jimmy safe at second and Flynn a-hugging third.

And from 5,000 throats and more, there rose a lusty yell.

It rumbled through the valley, it rattled in the dell.

It pounded on the mountain and recoiled upon the flat

for Casey, mighty Casey, was advancing to the bat.

There was ease in Casey's manner

as he stepped into his place.

There was pride in Casey's bearing

and a smile at Casey's face.

And when, responding to the cheers

he lightly doffed his hat

no stranger in the crowd could doubt

'twas Casey at the bat.

Ten thousand eyes were on him

as he rubbed his hands with dirt.

Five thousand tongues applauded

when he wiped them on his shirt.

Then while the writhing pitcher ground the ball into his hip

defiance flashed in Casey's eye

a sneer curled Casey's lip.

And now the leather-covered sphere

came hurtling through the air

and Casey stood a-watching it in haughty grandeur there.

Close by the sturdy batsman, the ball unheeded sped.

"That ain't my style," said Casey.

"Strike one," the umpire said.

From the benches black with people

there went up a muffled roar

like the beating of the storm waves

on a stern and distant shore.

"Kill him! Kill the umpire!" shouted someone on the stand.

And it's likely they'd have killed him

had not Casey raised his hand.

With a smile of Christian charity

great Casey's visage shone.

He stilled the rising tumult, he bade the game go on.

He signalled to the pitcher

and once more the dun sphere flew

but Casey still ignored it

and the umpire said, "Strike two."

"Fraud!" cried the maddened thousands.

An echo answered, "Fraud."

But one scornful look from Casey

and the audience was awed.

They saw his face grow stern and cold

they saw his muscles strain

and they knew that Casey wouldn't let that ball go by again.

The sneer has fled from Casey's lip

his teeth are clenched in hate.

He pounds with cruel violence his bat upon the plate.

Now the pitcher holds the ball

now he lets it go

and now the air is shattered by the force of Casey's blow.

Oh, somewhere in this land of ours

the sun is shining bright

the band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light

and somewhere men are laughing, and little children shout

but there's no joy in Mudville.

Great Casey has struck out.

What's the problem with the baking soda?

Did you use too much?

You've got a taste of soda in it, right?

An even more efficient way to use that knife is this.

See here?

If you pivot it from here, you're less...

This way, you may cut yourself.

One part granulated sugar and one part brown sugar.

Right?

Now, you need another measuring cup.

- You'll find one in the closet right here. - Yes, ma'am.

Right.

And Gary, what about this brown sugar?

How's he going to measure it?

- Packed. - Packed. Absolutely right.

OK.

What's your number, doll?

- Eleven. - Eleven?

Great!

She sure is, isn't she? And isn't she a beauty?

Just look at that. She is a vision for sure.

Let's have number fourteen.

Um...

you may... disappear.

Now, wait a minute, girls.

Um, wait a minute.

I think this is a good time... Hold it.

It's a good time to talk about clothes.

A girl came into my class today in a culotte costume.

And it looked just about, you know, uh...

it looked as sporty as this.

If it were on someone with slimmer legs

I think it might look good.

Could we get a model Friday? Could you find someone

to model it Friday with real thin legs, honey?

And girls, look, don't wear culottes to school

because you'll look just like that.

Your legs are all too heavy for the stuff.

Don't wear 'em too short, they look miserable.

I love you. Goodbye.

OK, next. Let's see.

Now, I think this young lady, she's got a leg problem, too.

If she did something about those stockings

she might well look better.

Could you get a matching pink

or flesh-coloured stocking for Friday?

Yeah, something that fits it.

A salmon colour, pink, or white.

- White. Yeah, white. - Or white, alright?

Would like to see you again on Friday.

What's your number, honey?

Number fourteen, and you will take care of that.

We aren't even asking you about it

cos I think she's got a pretty nice colour here, looks good.

And it's the leg thing that makes it difficult.

Alright, and let's see our last one

and I think this young lady has done a lovely job

of really putting some style into this particular garment.

Let's see how she looks.

She's done a nice job.

And this is a sample, girls, of what you can do.

This gal, she's got a weight problem, she knows it.

And she's done everything she can to cut it down.

I mean, she designed this garment herself

with the idea of making it gracious and graceful

and she handles it well.

She handles herself beautifully, you see this?

OK, and that's what you can do with fashion and design.

But these are the important things, girls.

To walk with your shoulders high and proud.

And this is all the time.

Around Northeast High School, this is the favourite walk.

And you've just got to do something to conquer it.

You really must handle yourself beautifully.

When you stop for applause, as here, for a turn

pull your foot back and pull your shoulders back.

In other words, "I'm not in a hurry.

"I'm not trying to hide in a corner. I'm beautiful.

"I have everything in control." Alright?

Mrs C, are you going to have music playing?

Yes, there's going to be music on Friday.

It's a very short time on Friday.

And when you turn, this is the favourite.

This is the favourite turn, kids, now, watch it.

Watch it. This is the way they go here.

You come along, see.

Now you're not here to show your derriere.

Therefore, if you're showing your backside on the stage at all

it's merely a quick turn in this fashion

and Miss Fisher did it, a kind of swing turn.

Alright? And watch these feet.

Don't ever end up with the feet like this.

If you want to test this, girls, if you want to test this

look down the long corridor.

Right across here sometimes, from one end to the other

and watch the kids come up the hall.

And this is the way they come, all you girls.

You see. Whereas if you get your feet, you get your weight

right straight over your feet

and walk, one almost in front of the other

you're doing something for yourself, OK?

Of course, I still look like a fat lady

but the point is that you look much more graceful

much more beautiful if you don't do this.

Are there any questions?

Any questions?

Everyone ready?

Anyone not ready?

Begin.

Stop typing, please.

Alright, as I read the paragraph from the book

let's follow with what we've typed.

"The two men went down with me

"down the long road," comma, space

"and in no time at all, we had reached the lake

"and found the path up to the spring"

period, double space.

Capital W.

"We had made the hike

"in less than two hours"

semicolon, space.

"The day was fine for it," comma, space

"mild and cool," comma, space

"and the three of us felt fine," period.

New paragraph, indent five.

Capital "we".

"We had a snack at the spring

"and then picked up our guns

"and went on down the path."

Period, double space, capital W.

"We looked high and low for signs of game,"

comma, space

"but the birds had seen us and screamed at us

"all the while," comma, space

"so that what game there might have been near the lake

"hid from us or took to its heels,"

period, double space.

"We called it a day and turned back home."

Period, double space, capital W.

"We had not fired one shot."

Now, there are various types of families.

We have a family, for instance

in which the dominant individual is the mother.

Now, this is a natural sort of thing.

You can see it in many of the natural, uh...

habits of, let's say, the lower animals.

The mother is designed

with an idea, first of all, of taking care of the youngster

before it's able to function on the outside.

And after the child or the offspring is born

she takes care of it.

Now, in some cases, birds

some of the animals mate for life.

But frequently, it's a sort of seasonal thing.

The father has finished his obligations

maybe after he protects the female

and they may never see each other.

They don't talk much about women in the Bible

in the Old Testament.

Moses was the big shot

and the various other people that I'm not too well acquainted with.

Once in a while, a woman gets in just by accident.

Now, that's not true in a modern Jewish family.

You know who runs your household pretty well.

Your mother collects the money, she takes care of the bills

pays them, she does the shopping

she handles all the economical sort of things.

Once in a while, she's nice and asks your father

if he'd like to look at a new car they're going to buy.

Or if she's in difficulty with you

she'll have your father speak to you.

But ordinarily, it tends to be that way

in a great many of our families.

So that we go back to that matriarchal system.

She says, "Why, if a man and a woman live together

"does society then say you're married?"

I think that's great, because society does have a way

to take care of regular, responsible, stable unions.

I think promiscuity

is what any society cannot tolerate.

That's a good point.

Why do you have your menstruation period?

You know, there's not an awfully good reason for it.

One of the inventors of the birth control pill

up in Boston, a very eminent gynaecologist

has said that he doesn't...

he can't think of any good reason why women

have to continue to menstruate if they don't want to.

That with the use of the pill

which really regulates your cycle...

This is what the pill does.

You take it for, say, twenty days

and then you don't take it for a few days.

You take it, you see, according to doctor's orders.

You don't just pop these things in your mouth

an hour before a date.

It's a medicine.

It's a medicine that you take

according to a prescription.

You must obtain them from a doctor

and you take them just as you do any other medicine

regularly and continuously.

You have had practice

in controlling your feelings and impulses

ever since you've been a baby.

By the time you get to be a high-school senior

you don't eat all the chocolate cake you want to

because you don't want to get fat.

You do your homework whether you want to or not.

You take your college boards

even if you don't feel like it that day.

You don't walk into Strawbridge's and steal dresses off the rack.

There is no better answer.

You have learned by now, as part of being human

that you can't have what you want when you want it.

The girls who haven't learned that, and the boys

are impulsive, and they never connect

what they're doing today with what happens tomorrow.

Now, if this becomes style five years from now

that's something else.

But right now, for formal wear, it is not style.

It's style for a very small percentage of people.

And we're going to do, in this school, what the majority wants.

Until this kind of rule changes, this is what we're going to do.

The majority wants a formal affair

which means a long gown, or a cocktail-length gown.

- The majority of students? - That's right.

Excuse me, what's the cocktail length?

Knee length.

Here?

The knee is not above the knee.

- This is my knee. - No, it isn't.

If you fell on that part of your anatomy

you would not injure your upper thigh.

Wouldn't tear that dress, anyway.

No, I think that it's nice to be individualistic

but... there are certain places to be individualistic.

I know. I didn't mean to be individualistic.

No, I'm not criticising.

I say it's nice to be that way

but there are certain times to be that way.

And I think you can be individualistic in your dress

but it doesn't have to be...

I happen to enjoy a short gown.

I didn't know it wouldn't be accepted to the prom.

I didn't do it purposely. This is what I enjoy.

What does formal mean to you?

Well, formal means dressy. I didn't think of it as a gown.

Formal means more than dressy.

When you get an invitation to a formal affair

it says "white tie or black tie".

It doesn't say that girls or women wear any length they want.

It means a floor-length gown.

You get an invitation to a cocktail party

it doesn't mean a floor-length gown.

It means a knee-length gown or a floor-length.

But "formal" means a long gown for a young lady

a middle-aged lady, elderly lady.

This is what it means. And for a man, it means a tux.

And it's determined by the time of day

whether it's white tie or black tie.

But there's no question.

I don't know any other... Really, whole story,

I didn't know that they weren't permitted.

This is what I felt like wearing.

It's a matter of what you're going to do in a situation like this.

This is offensive to the whole class.

I didn't really mean it to be.

I know you probably didn't mean it to be this

but this is what it is.

We bought an atmosphere

by renting the Sheraton ballroom, which is very formal.

We could have had that in the gym

and then it would have been a little bit different.

We could have a couple of go-go girls up on the stage

with a fifty-dollar orchestra, and...

we'd have a nice dance

but this is not just a dance.

This is the senior prom.

This is formal.

It's the one time in your life

that your class looks so different, you don't recognise anybody.

It's the first chance you have to be young ladies and young gentlemen.

I had a boy ask, and I had a girl come up and say

"Can my boyfriend wear a dark suit

"because he cannot afford the money for the rental of a tux?"

I said, "No, he can't."

Because then my husband has a right to wear

the beautiful suit he just bought

but we have to pay, what is it, ten or fifteen dollars to rent a tux.

Now, my husband has nothing to do with this school

but he's honouring the youngsters by coming dressed properly.

And I wouldn't think of coming without wearing a tux.

I rent one every year.

I have to wear a long gown.

I'd love to... And I can't walk in it.

I can't get in a car comfortably.

Five, six, seven, eight, nine.

Forty.

Oh, boy, we're feminine. Let's go.

Four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.

Tarzan. One, two...

three, four, five...

six, seven, eight, nine.

Super Tarzan. One, two, three, four...

five, six, seven, eight...

The dark fellow here is Paul Simon

and the blonde is Art Garfunkel.

The poet

is Simon.

And if you doubt that he's a poet now

wait until you hear some of his poetry.

And you'll notice on the board, I have some things

that you're familiar with, images, setting

figurative language, thematic words.

And we'll be finding how he says what he does say.

What do they want to say about our lives and how?

And I think the best way to start

is by looking at one of the best of the poems

The Dangling Conversation.

That's the first one on your sheet.

And the process we'll use... first, we'll read the poem

then listen to it

then we'll talk about it

and see how all the various poetic devices

reinforce the theme, see what you think about it

and then we'll listen to it once again

and I'll bet it means something a little bit more to you.

"It's a still-life watercolour of the now-late afternoon

"as the sun shines through the curtain lace

"and shadows wash the room.

"And we sit and drink our coffee

"couched in our indifference

"like shells upon the shore.

"You can hear the ocean roar

"in the dangling conversation and the superficial sighs

"the borders of our lives.

"And you read your Emily Dickinson

"and I my Robert Frost

"and we note our place with bookmarkers

"and measure what we lost.

"Like a poem poorly written, we are verses out of rhythm

"couplets out of rhyme, in syncopated time.

"And the dangling conversation and the superficial sighs

"are the borders of our lives.

"Yes, we speak the things that matter

"with words that must be said.

"Can analysis be worthwhile?

"Is the theatre really dead?

"And how the room is softly faded

"as I only kiss your shadow.

"I cannot feel your hand.

"You're a stranger now unto me, lost

"in the dangling conversation and the superficial sighs

"the borders of our lives."

Let's listen to it.

And notice how not only the devices reinforce the theme

but also the very rhythms, the melodies

and how they use their timing.

Now, when I taped these

they were from monaural and stereo records.

The tape is a little fast...

it's the drama club tape recorder

so you'll have to be a little patient at the very beginning.

Hey, you! Turn around, pal.

Sir.

Don't "sir" me.

Don't feed me that "sir" business.

You punched this guy in the mouth.

On what basis?

Sir, he started mouthing off, and then he started laughing.

Yeah, well, that doesn't give you a right to hit him.

If it was a six-foot-two, 215-pound fullback

you wouldn't be so quick to punch him in the mouth.

P-E-R-G.

O-L-I-N-O.

Where do you come in to hit this guy?

He has a right to erase the board.

That's not what it was over.

Just as much as you have a right to write on it.

You didn't ask permission to write those names on the board, did you?

Pardon me, sir, but that wasn't what it was over.

What was it over?

Sir, it was a ways before class started

you know, we had an argument

and I didn't do nothing. I kept on walking away.

Well, you're not supposed to do anything.

You don't strike or hit anybody.

Levine wears glasses on top of it

yet you still hit him.

Sir, I wear glasses too.

That's why you're gonna be suspended

- for throwing the first punch. - Yes, sir.

MAN Don't give me that "yes, sir" business.

I don't like the "sir" business. You know why?

Because there's no sincereness behind it.

And how about the poor, poor teacher

whoever it was?

- I don't... - I don't know.

I don't even know what she said that we did, but...

It's a matter of being inhuman to another human being.

That's what it amounts to.

But all I know is that she got Sue in a lot of trouble, and...

Sue who?

The other girl.

And Sue didn't... I don't think Sue had any...

She told... she said that we locked her in the closet.

"We" means Sue and you?

I mean the class.

Nobody locked her in the closet as far as I know.

Look, if she would've been locked in the closet

I sure would have heard that and turned around and looked.

She may have had a little more control

than to make that much noise, cos it's a little embarrassing to her.

She wasn't gonna call everybody's attention to it.

It wasn't fair, like...

Sue was just messing around, just as much as us.

The rest of the class...

and now Sue's in so much trouble just because of that one teacher.

And because Sue got in trouble, I blame it a lot on the teacher, cos...

Well, let's keep looking at that

because, again, this is my concern, Eileen

with teaching you.

Sue got in trouble because of the teacher.

Sue did nothing to help?

Whoever Sue is, I don't know.

I'm glad you didn't answer when I asked her name

because it's easier to talk.

She just messed around like everybody else.

Well, can you tell me what "messing around" means?

This is what I've been trying to find out for months.

Every time you would say "messing around".

What does it actually consist of?

I don't know, we were talking, laughing...

Well, just plain talking and laughing isn't offensive.

Well, we had catching a book or something.

Oh, you threw a book around?

Not just me!

But whoever was involved.

I know I did a lot. Like, I did a lot. I...

talk back a lot.

Did you talk back to the teacher?

Yeah.

And this is what you call "messing around"?

- No, well... - Isn't that more disrespect?

What I did was disrespect, what the rest...

what everybody else did was messing around.

But I don't... I don't know.

See, what Mother is saying...

at least what I'm saying, I think what Mother is saying

is that we hope, Eileen

that you don't set your standards

by the so-called "everybody else".

That you set your standards on what you know

is the thing to do.

I repeat, there's no doubt

that the teacher was not holding the class

was not doing the job you think she should have done

from what you say, I'll accept that.

But who breaks the circle

when things go around and around and around?

Someone has to be mature enough

to move out of the circle and into the straight, right?

Somebody's got to break away from it.

You're intelligent, you're mature

you have the background.

You can be the one that can do it.

Why don't you offer the positive kind of leadership

that you can.

That you know you have, and that I know you have

that Mother knows you have.

You can be a real force in any group, Eileen.

Can't you?

The kids rally around you a bit.

Well, not really.

I've seen you in the lunchroom.

We've got us a potential leader.

Eileen can...

It shows, wherever she is.

I've seen her once in a while in a group, and...

you can see who the leader is in a group, and she has it.

Eileen has a very set mind

and if she decides that something should be done

this is what she pursues, this I know about her.

I think that's good.

I think it's excellent in many ways, but I've often said to her

"Eileen, use your determination for right.

"And as long as you do, you'll be alright."

And one thing, this is the one thing that bothers me so much...

the main thing in our home

has always been respect for an adult.

I was brought up that way, my husband was.

And we've been trying to teach our children the same thing.

To me, I think, one of the worst offences

is being disrespectful to an older person.

Irregardless of what the condition may be.

You can say the same thing in a pleasant manner

that you can in an offensive way.

And this is one thing

that's disturbed me recently about Eileen.

That even at home, now she...

I don't say the language that she uses is wrong

but it's the manner that the same...

that a sentence is brought forth.

And I told her, "Eventually, Eileen

"this is going to hurt you outside."

And finally it has.

And I think you would kind of have to decide, Arleen

how you would feel about where you stood in your college class

whether you would rather be in an easier school

and toward the top of the class

or in a harder school

and toward the bottom of the class.

I think I would gain more by being, like

in the middle or the top than being at the very bottom

not being able to keep up with everybody else.

Do you want a college course, then, dear

where, at the end of four years

you would be finished with your education

and able to go out and make a living

or do you want the kind of course where

at the end of four years, it is likely that you would be

going on with your education?

I'm not sure right now.

I think I want to go... four years of college

and, maybe, if I become a teacher

stop, and then I can always take courses again

go higher, get a higher degree.

Or, I think, um, a social worker

or psychologist has to go five years.

Or six years or seven years.

It would depend on what you chose after that.

I don't think I want to go more than maybe five or six years.

Or more than five.

Well, I think you've given me kind of a...

pretty comprehensive idea of what you're looking for.

And then I would have to ask you, sir

the hard, hard question of how much

could you contribute to your daughter's education?

Well, uh, that's a hard question to say

because, if she lives away from home

then it's a different story altogether.

If she's at home, it's another story.

But the way she's talking, she doesn't want to stay home.

So I would say maybe about a thousand

or fifteen-hundred dollars is about the best I could give her

a year, to go away to college.

Mm-hmm. Then it would seem to me, Arleen

that the most realistic way to plan it would be

to think about where you could go

if your father could give you a thousand dollars to fifteen-hundred dollars

and then to try for scholarship in some other places

that might be somewhat more expensive.

But I think you kind of have to plan

for where you would go

if you didn't get any financial aid from someone.

I mean, you always have to... you can look at the brighter side

about where you would like to go

you can have all your dream schools

but at the bottom, you ought to have some college of last resort

where you could be sure that you would go

uh, if none of your dreams came true.

Rhona is the recipient of a ten-thousand-dollar hero scholarship

for any college anywhere in the country she wants to go.

I guess, I'm not saying she's college material

but at least she can have some type of education, following...

She can go to any college and do whatever she wanted.

Tell me again.

Do you think you want to go to college?

- Yes. - And you think, what course...

Please, darling, you're lying to the man now.

You don't want to go to college.

Well, I do, but not the kind of college you want me to.

What kind of college do you want to go to?

I want to be a cosmetician.

Cosmetician? Well, that's not a college, is it?

Well, it's a beauty culture school.

It's a beauty culture school, it's not a college.

Right, but, it's...

The requirements for that are different than from college.

- Yes. - You don't have any foreign language?

- No. - You don't have any algebra?

- No. - You don't have geometry.

So that actually, as far as going to college

you're not even prepared for a college.

Uh...

Do you feel that you are disappointing your parents

by not going to college?

- Now, tell me the truth. - Yes.

You feel your parents are disappointed?

- My father. - Your father is?

Tell me, would you feel better if you knew your father

really accepted the fact that you didn't go to college?

You feel a bit guilty for not going to college?

Yes, everything you say.

Well...

That you're disappointing your parents?

I'm disappointing my father

but, um, I don't think I'd feel guilty about not going.

You don't feel guilty at all?

- Not guilty. - I see.

- It's my life. - It's your life.

I feel that what I want to be is more important than

what he desires me to be.

I see.

But you know your parents are disappointed?

- Your father in particular? - Yes.

You can't undo the past.

Even if somebody has made a mistake

and been wrong and unfair, you can't undo the past.

The only thing you can do is

try to do better in the present so that the future will be better.

So what I'm suggesting to you, work as hard as you can

do the best you can

and confer with Mr Schuster about this

and let's see what happens at the end of the semester, OK?

You go back to class now, or are you through?

No, I'm through.

- Thanks again, Dr Boodish. - You're welcome.

- Thank you very much. - You're welcome. Goodbye.

Oh, incidentally, how about gym?

This is the strongest child in the school.

What are you gonna do to pass gym?

Well, I have to do my make-ups.

Yes. And that's necessary for graduation, you know.

- It is? - It is.

She has to pass.

I wish, Dr Boodish, she was as smart as she is strong.

- Thank you, Doctor. - Very strong girl.

I'm going to ask your daughter a question.

How did you feel about that remark that your father just made?

- I liked it. - You liked it?

- Yes. - Good, OK.

There is a car in the students' driveway

blocking the exit of two other cars.

But I don't believe in giving...

Let's give them jobs.

I don't believe in giving.

- Earn it. - Earn it a little bit.

Yeah, I think people have gotten...

There's too much relief going on, that's all.

Too much to a point where they're giving all the time.

You're all hung up...

You're all hung up on the Protestant ethic.

There are so many facets to this.

I don't believe in what Bill says.

I don't believe 100%

in what Bill says about giving things away.

I never think that anybody appreciates anything.

Look at your own children.

When you give them, do they really appreciate it?

Sometimes if they work for it a little bit, Bill

they appreciate these things more.

Take this money we're giving away to the world, foreign aid.

They're laughing at us.

They're cramming it right down your throat.

Actually, that foreign aid business...

We put them on their...

It's really giving money to the guys

who are buying from the rich people

and from the manufacturers over here.

That's where the money's going.

It's not just being given to them, any other way.

But the thing is, there's so much money being wasted.

William Sylvis.

Yes, W.H. Sylvis.

Now, what was he trying to do?

What was his purpose? Yes, Aidele?

He was trying to establish an eight-hour working day for labourers

and mechanics and...

Yeah, well, he wanted higher wages.

He wanted an eight-hour workday.

But he tried to unite...

This is the important thing about this union.

He tried to unite all labour unions of the country

into a federation membership.

What on the horizon, or what existed

that forced labour to turn to collective bargaining?

What was there a lack of?

Communications.

Yes, communication, lack of security.

Concern for the job.

The important thing is this.

Let's get to the beginnings.

First of all, there was a lack of security.

Second of all, there was a lack of communication.

The attitude of the employees, or of the employers

towards the employees

with regard to working conditions

with regard to living conditions

with regard to wages...

very little communication.

Alright, we have evidently

a great imbalance in American society.

We have, on the one hand, we have an affluent society...

and that's one America, and on the other hand

we have another America

and by the way, that's the name of a good book by Michael Harrington

called The Other America.

And what is this other America?

Another America that's not...

America of poverty, America that is not sharing

in the affluence of American society.

And King was there to try to uplift this other America.

Do you know what the Department of Labor says

should be the comfort level of a family of four?

A man, a wife, and two children?

What they should earn to be comfortable?

Not... Moderately comfortable, not affluent

but just moderately comfortable in our society.

Know what the figure is, any idea what it is?

Christine? How much?

- Nine thousand? - Yes, a little over nine thousand dollars.

So you can imagine...

you know what percent of the American population

earns over nine thousand dollars?

It's not the majority.

Let's determine some of the attitudes in this class

and see how we handle...

Alright, how many of you would be a member of a club

where a minority of members of the club were negro?

How many would accept that situation?

You would be a member of a club

if a minority of the members were negro?

Alright.

OK, fine, put your hands down.

How many would not be a member of the club?

Alright, how many would be a member of a club

where half the members

were negro members and the other half were white?

Alright. Put your hands down.

How many would not be a member of that club?

Alright.

Remember, there's no right or wrong answer.

It's just, we're just trying to determine what attitudes are.

You forgot so soon? Three, go!

Because Northeast is such a cloistered, secluded place

the problem is...

It is.

The policy of Northeast

is to avoid controversy completely.

...totally miserable attitude.

There are good points, Mark.

Can't you find anything good about this school?

It's got lots of room

except not for as many kids as are in it.

It's very nice, well-ventilated.

I can't say anything about the people

who go to it, though, really.

With very few exceptions.

And most of the people I could make those exceptions about

are right in this room

with maybe five or six exceptions.

And the rest of the school stinks, in my estimation.

You know, I'm not qualified to make, you know...

gigantic judgements about the school

but I think in its attitude towards education

and in its relations with the world today

this school is miserable.

It's cloistered, it's secluded

it's completely sheltered

from everything that's going on in the world.

And I think it's wrong, it has to be changed

and I think that's our purpose here.

And not to talk about films.

You're so negative

that I can see someday, somebody coming out and saying

"You know, you kids just don't belong.

"You spoil Northeast.

"Northeast High would be a nice..."

It's already been said!

Mr Simon pulled me to his office and said

"You don't look like a Northeaster, son.

"You don't look like a Northeaster."

I think one thing that has to be changed around

is the fact that you have these...

See, like, you have these variables existing

within the school system in Northeast.

And the thing about it that makes it so alien

or... feels towards us...

is the fact that, um...

you have to like, conform to these ideas

which people like Mr Simon

- Dr Allen... - Why are you picking on him?

Alright, he's got problems maybe.

No, but I would also like to say that the school...

I must admit, he's in the position where

maybe you'll find some others of the same opinion.

The only difference is, he has the job of vice principal

that is in contact with the students.

- He handles the student activities. - Right, but...

Now, I'm not saying that Mr Simon's the only one

who says these things.

The rule is fairly... I think you'll agree

consistent among many members of the faculty.

And don't just pinpoint poor Mr Simon.

He may be right, he may be wrong

but he's the one voicing it all the time

but he's voicing a quite common feeling.

Well, I'll say something good about the school.

I'll say that scientifically and technologically

Northeast is an advanced school

apart from other high schools in the country.

A compliment, I'm gonna faint.

Apart from other high schools in the country

- and possibly... - Shh!

Possibly in the world also.

This school...

in those, in that particular field

is a leader. Um...

As Mark has said...

morally, socially

this school is a garbage can, let's face the facts.

Morally? Completely?

Yes.

Well, I venture to say that the moral problems

you have here, in general

are in existence in most schools.

See, the trouble is...

I don't think it's that bad.

Now, boys and girls, uh...

we have a very new...

plaque out in the hall, if you've noticed

outside the main office

framed, which has a special thought for the day

written to attract your attention

and I think it's very fine.

But, as always, we have on our bulletin

another thought for the day

and this one, especially in my field, is very important

but in any kind of research

to have the right word for what you have to say

in these days to express things

so that people do not misunderstand you.

"The dictionary is the only place

"where success comes before work."

Um...

For the tenth and eleventh-grade boys

who signed up for Foods Experiences for Boys

you must go to room 130 this week

to verify your registration.

The Spectator Club will discuss

Martin Luther King's assassination today

at 3:15 in room 228.

And in general, the more a fellow gets into bed

with more different girls, the more insecure he is.

And this shows up, actually, later

in all the divorce statistics and in the marital statistics.

The more intercourse either a boy or a girl

has had prior to marriage

the less likely they are to make successful marriage partners

husbands, wives, and the greater...

in other words, you can graph it right on a graph.

The more girls a fellow has gotten into bed with

or vice versa, the higher the divorce rate

the greater the sexual inadequacy

and the failure of compatibility.

As with anything else, the real pros in the field

keep it to themselves and aren't profligate with it.

"Is it possible to impregnate the girl

"by rubbing the surface of the vagina?"

With what, your nose?

I might add...

this brings up one other good point now.

This brings up another darn good point.

Virginity is a state of mind.

By that, I have seen several girls

who have been physiologically

or by physical examination, virgins.

The hymen, the mucous membrane

covering the...

the so-called cherry...

uh, it's called the cherry

because it produces red fluid when it's busted...

...is intact.

I have seen girls whose hymens were so small

that I couldn't pass a finger through them.

In fact, I once saw a girl...

I happen to be a gynaecologist and get paid to do it.

I once saw a girl

who had rickets when she was a baby

whose bony structure was so deformed

that I could get my finger in this way, but not broad-ways

her bony structure down there...

who has succeeded in becoming pregnant.

Sperm happen to be very actively motile.

They have a good ability to move on their own.

And many a girl has become pregnant through spray.

If you are not prepared

to handle the responsibility

of that girl's becoming pregnant, and having a baby

you've got two choices.

One, make sure there is adequate protection

to prevent having a baby.

Two, if there isn't

don't.

Because you are just as much responsible

if not a little bit more, than the girl

if a pregnancy ensues.

Nature sets us up

that the male is the aggressor

and the female is the passive in this set of circumstances.

It takes a girl longer to get sexually aroused

than it does a boy.

This is the nature of the beast.

We can get a better idea of the relationship

of the fallopian tubes and ovaries

if we view them from the front.

Under normal conditions, an ovum matures in the ovary

then passes down the fallopian tube

on its way to the uterus.

When gonorrhoea spreads upward, the infection can cause damage

which blocks the fallopian tubes

sometimes causing severe complications.

As in a boy

untreated gonorrhoea can make a girl sterile

unable to become a mother.

However, a girl with gonorrhoea can become a mother

but this creates another problem.

When the baby is ready to be born

there is danger that she may transmit the disease to the child

when it passes out of her body.

You didn't get hit, huh?

Good, glad to see you.

- You have to go back? - Never.

When do you get out?

I get out September '69.

That's terrific. September?

Oh! September '60...

'69, I get out with Halsie and...

Is Halsie back?

Yeah, he came back, he was wounded.

I heard that. I didn't see him.

I heard Joe was wounded also.

So are a lot of guys. Peppy got hurt. He was wounded.

Peppy was shot up pretty bad.

Peppy... was about, I guess about five yards

from one of them hidin' in one of them little holes they dig

and they popped up with an automatic rifle on him

opened up...

really got him in the foot pretty bad.

And...

he turned around and he killed the guy.

But he's done for soccer or anything like that forever.

He can never play that again.

Yeah, he was a good soccer player.

But he's through with that.

At first, they thought they might have to amputate.

But he was down the naval hospital for quite a long time

and then he came up wearing... with a cast and crutches

and then he came up with a cane the next time I saw him.

This last time I saw him, he was walking pretty well

but he'll never be able to hit with that foot or anything

cos they're rebuilding it all. I mean...

Yeah.

He was pretty... the first day back

he was pretty melancholy-like, you know.

And... naturally so.

But I think he's got himself adjusted now.

He seems to be alright

I'm glad to say.

I'm glad you didn't get hit.

I got it!

Where?

I got it!

You're almost there, Jan, you have nineteen seconds, Jan.

Eighteen, seventeen, sixteen, fifteen

fourteen, thirteen, twelve, eleven

- ten, nine, eight, seven... - Oh my god.

six, five, four, three

two, one.

That's it.

Jerry, disconnect audio.

Is the hatch clear?

The hatch is clear, yeah.

Alright, pull.

- How you doing? - Yay!

Hey, I recognise you.

I got something for you, man.

Oh, thanks.

- Good one, Ruth. - Holly.

- It's good to be out here again. - How do you feel?

- Great. - Do you? Oh!

- Terrific. - You made it.

We're so proud of you.

OK...

Mr Gordon! Good seeing you again, boss.

How you doing?

Jan! Oh, you look really good.

Real grizzly, Jan, real grizzly.

And... and, Mr Montgomery, just hug all three of them now.

I'm going to help get...

I'm going to just start getting this thing off him, OK?

Hey, kid, I want to see that beard, man!

- The beard. - Here we go.

Ready? Wait a minute.

Here comes his head.

Hey, the beard.

Hey!

Yeah, but I'll talk to you later.

Good job, Jan, real good.

Thanks a lot.

Jan.

Hold on, hold on.

Scott, good job.

Thank you.

Dick Casey's here.

Hey, Scott, man. Scott, how you doing?

Scott.

Scott.

We received a telegram this morning.

I want to read it at this time.

"Students and faculty of Northeast High School.

"Attention, Robert Montgomery.

"I should like to take this opportunity to extend

"my best wishes to each of you

"for your continued success with Project SPARC.

"Specifically, my heartiest congratulations

"to astronauts Jan Gabin, Harvey Rubin, and Scott Cherry

"upon completion of 193 hours in simulated flight."

The telegram comes from L. Gordon Cooper

NASA astronaut.

Help me out! I'm going to cry.

It's all misty, man.

Getting all misty.

This is man number one

number two, number three, OK?

Let's get a little closer.

- OK, go right behind. - Hey, how are you?

- Hey, Scott! - Good morning, how are you?

Rubin, hey.

Scott.

Drums!

Roll off!

Now, let me read you this one...

if I'm able to get through it.

This is written from... and I might say

that the letter I'm about to read is from Bob Walters.

Bob Walters, as Fran could tell you

she could write his biography...

was a boy without parents

who might have been a nobody.

He certainly was not a high academic student.

He was most average or sub-average in many ways.

But a few teachers who cared...

made a great difference in this boy's life.

His letter comes on... stationery

marked "USS Okinawa".

I hope I can get through it.

If I don't, Hy, you'll have to go on.

"Dear Dr Haller.

"I have only a few hours before I go.

"Today, I will take a plane trip from this ship.

"I pray that I'll make it back

"but it is all in God's hands now.

"You see, I am going with three other men.

"We're going to be dropped behind the DMZ

"the demilitarised zone.

"The reason for telling you this is

"that all my insurance money

"will be given for that scholarship

"I once started but never finished

"if I don't make it back.

"I am only insured for ten thousand dollars.

"Maybe it could help someone.

"I have been trying to become a big brother in Vietnam

"but it is very hard to do.

"I have to write back and forth to San Diego, California

"and that takes time.

"I only hope that I am good enough to become one.

"God only knows.

"I really pray that the young men in your cooking classes

"will use this change of learning very well.

"Thank you, Dr Haller

"for helping these men become good, very fine cooks."

He should have said, "Thank you, Mrs C."

"My personal family usually doesn't understand me.

"They don't understand why I have to do what I do do.

"They say that I'm a real nut to do such work

"but...

"thus they say

'"Don't you value life? Are you crazy?'

"My answer is, 'Yes'.

"But I value all the lives of South Vietnam

"and the free world

"so that they and all of us can live in peace.

"Am I wrong, Dr Haller?

"If I do my best all the time and believe in what I do

"and believe that what I do is right

"that is all I can do.

"Dr Haller, if anything happens to me

"James C. Heckwicker," I think it is...

"will send you a telegram

"and in time, he will send you the money.

"Please don't say anything to Mrs C."

But I did.

"She would only worry over me.

"I am not worth it.

"I am only a body doing a job.

"In closing, I thank everyone

"for what they all have done for me.

"Yours truly, Bob Walters.

"Thank you all again very much.

"Please forgive my handwriting.

"I am a little jumpy.

"Please understand."

Now, when you get a letter like this

to me, it means

that we are very successful

at Northeast High School.

I think you will agree with me.