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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...families, friends and alumni fill the Tercentenary Theatre today under mostly sunny skies predicted by the National Weather Service, 1432 seniors will attend Commencement exercises and later receive their diplomas at House luncheon ceremonies...
Southern answers that allegation by saying that Rivera and other students involved in setting up the February meeting did not inform her that non-concentrators would be attending the discussion, nor had they prepared an agenda in advance detailing the issues that would be covered or the students who would discuss them. Rivera says that the concentrators told the chairman that "students" would attend the meeting--he did not specify "concentrators"--and that Afro students have submitted agendas to Southern prior to meetings in the past, only to meet with treatment similar to that met with in the February meeting...
...fruits on TV. A devout Baptist, Bryant claims she was "born again" at the age of eight. As an entertainer, says Bryant, she sees and tolerates homosexuals. But she opposes this ordinance because it prevents private and parochial schools from discriminating against homosexuals in hiring teachers. Her four children attend a Baptist school. Says she: "When the law requires you to let an admitted homosexual teach your children and serve as a model for them, it's time to stop being so tolerant." Her main argument: "The Bible clearly says homosexuality is an abomination...
...opportunities." Some, who live near by, are ferried by their parents to special two-hour Saturday tutorial classes at Johns Hopkins. Tutored by other prodigies just a few years older than they, these gifted students now race through advanced algebra and geometry. Others leapfrog over grades, and some will attend a special summer session at Johns Hopkins...
...movie is at its best exploring the confusions that attend the preadolescent years. At that stage, kids have a way of being half-right about how the world works and a sunny, misplaced confidence that they have the whole thing taped. Naturally, they get tripped up a lot, but they get used to it and go bouncing off to school (as Ana does) without moral qualms or regrets. It is this ability to be both right and wrong about even such matters as death that Saura has caught in this deft and strangely touching film...