is chief opponent was tom hurwitz. is equal in intellectual precocity and love of a good fight, the impromptu discussions often ended in shouting matches between the two. a hot topic was cuba and fidel castro who had come to power in 1959. most students are him as a romantic revolutionary bringing economic and social justice to his people. elliott saw him as another standard issue communist dictator. angela davis was in the class of 1961. that class included robert deniro for untimely. they lived in the village and kathy levine who later became involved in the 1981 -- took part in the brinks robbery in which a guard and two police men were killed and served many years in prison for that. angela davis lived in birmingham, alabama at the height of jim crow and escape from the wretched segregated school system, she entered e. i. in edging a scholarship from the service committee. i will read a short passage about her. when she entered the school although angela braced herself for outright hostility she had not foreseen he

so the parents of tom hurwitz who is one of my antagonist can his parents were among that group. eo hurwitz was a documentarian of sort of a radical strife, and his mother was a printable in market and dance troupe. so i will read you a little bit about him. >> as a young man, tom looked at his parents wild ride through the depression within the. with his down eyes and full lips and his brown hair brush into submission and parted on the side, tom, like his father, didn't dare concede a point. in some ways he was a typical child of 50s. dissuade letter jacket. he had the biggest collection of toy guns of every sort. i spoke to my analyst about it. he said let him have been. people wanted anymore than when he grows up. but the death of the rosenbergs was an ongoing and unspoken turn that pervaded tom's childhood. one day he summoned up the courage to broach the subject with his father. could they get you and mom, he asked? know, his father reassured him. we are artists. of the leo's response was not particularly on point, tom was somewhat comforted by this response. times fears were