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...mean to pick a fight, to get you to listen close and to give a sense of rock history. There is even a glossary. Maybe you're worried because the kids have started talking about doo-wops, and you think its something they're buying off the homeroom pusher. You could look it up. And relax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: You Could Look It Up | 1/7/1980 | See Source »

...third grade at P.S. 166, that august institute of lower education on West 89th St. where I majored in messing up my desk, I learned several things. The first thing I learned was that love is cruel. This insight came when Miss Witzman, homeroom teacher and object of my lust, announced her intention to marry at year's end. Marry someone other than me, that is. I learned the second thing when fractions wormed their incomprehensible way into my arithmetic textbook. Math...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Boxing at Harvard: An Idea Whose Time Has Come? | 1/17/1979 | See Source »

Taking the muted approach, Stewart and his staff convened all 107 high school teachers at 7:15 a.m. and urged them to break the news to small groups of students during homeroom periods. "We decided not to interrupt school routine in any way," he said. During the day, the school's seven guidance counselors, joined by 15 Ridgewood clergymen, set up desks around the high school, offering counseling to any students who wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Trouble in an Affluent Suburb | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...student type government that it helped topple in 1968. But perhaps this type of student government patterned after a high school student council has appeal for this undergraduate body. As everyone knows, 75 per cent of the undergraduates at one time were high school student council presidents, representatives, or homeroom cloakroom monitors. I am quite confident that these former high school pols who fought for liberal dress codes and long hair for guys would be most attracted to this campus organization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE QUALITY OF LIFE | 10/21/1972 | See Source »

...crazy; I was wrong. "The Ballad of the Green Berets" sold something over two million copies, and brought fame and fortune to a 26-year-old high school drop-out named Barry Sadler, who has a son called Thor and a smart-aleck grin like that kid in your homeroom who used to shoot craps during morning announcements...

Author: By Linda J. Greenhouse, | Title: Ghost of the Green Beret | 3/4/1967 | See Source »

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