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Signs of local insistence on excellence???or at least adequacy ?in public education are encouraging, and a necessary correction to the excesses and the pandering of the past decade or two. One facet of the American experiment, of which education has long been a vital part, has been its capacity for correction and renewal. "The tendency of democracies is, in all things to mediocrity," James Fenimore Cooper once pessimistically observed. It is time for the schools to prove him wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Schools Under Fire | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

...return. Now, as The Band?an intentionally unpretentious title?they have come into their own. In the shifting, echoing cacophony of sound and sometimes fury that is the modern rock scene, The Band has now emerged as the one group whose sheer fascination and musical skill may match the excellence???though not the international impact?of the Beatles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Down to Old Dixie and Back | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

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