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...exams. Preparing for them and taking them is such a traumatic ordeal that thousands of suicides and nervous breakdowns occur every year. Next spring some 510,000 high school graduates will compete not only against one another for 370,000 openings, but also against 200,000 rōnin†-students who failed the tests and have been cramming for months to try again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mass Production in Tokyo | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

...What's happ'nin', Knight...

Author: By Peter Delissovoy, | Title: The Failure in Albany, Georgia | 10/22/1963 | See Source »

...supposed to say, 'The Movements happ'nin',' aint...

Author: By Peter Delissovoy, | Title: The Failure in Albany, Georgia | 10/22/1963 | See Source »

...Only the Movement ain't happ'nin' no more...

Author: By Peter Delissovoy, | Title: The Failure in Albany, Georgia | 10/22/1963 | See Source »

...course, sings Spanish music more beautifully than de los Angeles, and it seems hardly fair to complain that Nin's El pano murciano is not an especially interesting song when she is warbling her way through it. The encores included the inevitable Clavelitos, but some members of the audience were clearly disappointed that de los Angeles chose to omit Adios Granada, a flamenco which she sings to her own guitar accompaniment. They need not have been; it is not every exam period after all, that brings with it a concert by the soprano with the world's loveliest voice...

Author: By Kenneth A. Bleeth, | Title: Victoria de los Angeles | 1/28/1963 | See Source »

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