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PROFESSOR
All right, gentlemen. Independently,
please -- a reaction to what you
have just done.
CLINTON
Satisfaction.
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PROFESSOR
And you, Mr. Barnes?
BARNES
Satisfaction.
PROFESSOR
All right, gentlemen...take your
seats.
The two men return to their desks and sit down quietly. The
Professor looks down at his roster, looks up again.
PROFESSOR
Miss Peterson.
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who rises.
PROFESSOR
In the area of stimuli to subconscious
hostility, look around the room, if
you will, please. Pick a subject
whom you instinctively respond to
in a primarily negative way.
Peterson looks around the room. Camera follows her gaze,
settling on another girl, Farber - an absolutely stunning,
mini-skirted blonde - very chic.
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PETERSON
Joanne Farber.
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PROFESSOR
Stand, if you will, Miss Farber.
Face Miss Peterson.
The blonde rises, turns toward Peterson.
PROFESSOR
Association, Miss Peterson.
CONTINUED
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PETERSON
Well-dressed...obviously wealthy
family...social register...that kind
of thing. Debutante type. Tends
toward snobbery.
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PROFESSOR
The source of hostility. Relate,
if you can.
PETERSON
My...my family. Southern Pennsylvania.
Father dead. Mother uneducated.
Many brothers and sisters. Very
poor. No...no social distinction
at all.
PROFESSOR
(nods)
Proceed then.
Peterson sidesteps her way down and in front of the row of
seats across the aisle to Farber. She looks at a large gold
pendant hanging around the girl's neck, reaches out and rips
it off, looks down at it clutched in her fist, then suddenly
flings it across the room where it lands on the floor near
the Professor. He looks at it briefly, then up and across at
Farber.
PROFESSOR
Miss Farber -- a reaction, please.
(as Farber turns
toward Peterson)
Hostility source first.
FARBER
White trash. Ignorant. No...no
graces. Envious. Money conscious.
Social climber.
PROFESSOR
Proceed then.
Farber deliberately walks past Peterson, goes down the steps,
picks up the pendant, carries it back up the steps over to
Peterson, lifts up one of Peterson's hands, shoves the pendant
into it, then spits in her face. The class stares at this
entire episode emotionlessly. The Professor, his voice flat
and bland, murmurs:
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PROFESSOR
Take your seats, please.
(consults roster;
eyes narrow)
Mr. Goldman.
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21 FAVORING GOLDMAN 21
a spare, dark-haired kid who rises near the front row.
PROFESSOR
The hypothesis as follows. A society
made up of your kind...and an enemy.
Pick out a potential enemy, please.
Goldman turns very slowly to survey the room behind him.
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An oriental student named Chang sits in the aisle seat.
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GOLDMAN
William Chang.
PROFESSOR
Stand up, Mr. Chang.
Chang rises. Goldman is in the f.g. The Professor's voice
now takes on a softer tone, almost suggestive:
PROFESSOR
How do you view a possible relation-
ship here, Mr. Goldman?
GOLDMAN
No possibility of a relationship.
A question only of survival.
PROFESSOR
Mr. Chang or you?
GOLDMAN
(nods)
One or the other.
PROFESSOR
(almost a whisper)
And how would you translate this
into a form of action?
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who turns and looks toward Chang.
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