Word: final
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cliff Ruderman won two foil matches, and lost the third, 5-4. He almost dropped a second, when he lost his concentration after running up a 4-0 lead. The CCNY fencer tied the score, but Ruderman snapped back to gain the final point...
...Weismann, the number two foil, won his first match, but lost his touch and failed to win again. Phil Rappaport could not overcome his nervousness, as he failed to get the final point, and lost his three bouts...
...Hermann Hesse's Demian, first published in 1919. Hesse happens to be one of the titans of modern literature, and his fiction earned him the Nobel Prize in 1946. Demian is the deeply probing tale of an adolescent's passage through various stages of spiritual turmoil to a final self-realization under the influence of a slightly older and rather mysterious friend and guide. There is an overlay of symbolism and surrealism, and a Jungian concern with the workings of the subconscious...
...World War II, tells of a 17-year-old. Everylad who feels himself a failure and is at odds with his father and siblings. The work possesses authenticity and humor; the writing is literate and well above average. The weaker portions are overshadowed by the tremendous impact of the final pages, where the boy finds a meaning for his life as he works to help victims of a German bombing-raid...
...final meeting, the Review Committee agreed unanimously to recommend to the full Board of Directors of SAD 44 that the reading not be removed from the English curriculum. At the same time, it called attention to a policy, already adopted by the Board long before the current controversy according to which a parent's request to remove a specific book assignment for his child will be honored...