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Watched over by a smiling representative of the world outside, Collins Doughtie quietly prepares one more homework assignment.
Like so many students - as discoveries in science and technology seem to double every three weeks - Marshall Wright finds it challenging to keep abreast of the times.
Even In Isolation, No One Escaped
'The Message'
Isolated geographically from the nation's political and cultural centers, even from the heart of Lynchburg, the school community is limited to 160 acres of Virginia soil, U.S.A., and its inhabitants seldom move beyond its botmdaries for their diurnal tasks. But because the media is the message is the massage, students are never far outside the mainstream of contemporary thought and action. Ever-present electrons project the raw vicissitudes of an Asian war just after ' another hilarious episode" of "George of the Jungle." Juxtaposition. Fragmentation. Color and soun . Flip the switch and
it's bappening. Periodicals to which students subscribe ranged from The Village Voice to The Wall Street Journal to The Shotgun News. Diversification was the byword: "The FUGS," "The Doors," "The Temptations," "Smokey Robinson and the Miracles." Records bring out the subliminated, the soulful, and the ideological to those who care to cultivate . . . All these things and more are as much a part of this generation of students as are English classes, pep rallies, and Sunday
inspection.
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