Word: grades
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...article in the Oct. 30 issue of The New York Times Magazineexamining a prototypical suburban high school in Brownwood, TX revealed some rather alarming information. Corporal punishment is regularly used on players who misbehave or demonstrate conduct unbecoming a team member. Some parents hold their sons back a grade so that "they will be bigger when they try out for the high school team." And on one occasion, after a season of repeated losses, a coach received so many threatening phone calls before an upcoming game that he was forced to wear a bulletproof vest to the stadium...
...saying hello to a widely regarded jazz pianist, Ellis Marsalis, who was playing behind Al Hirt. Marsalis had a little boy of six named Wynton at home, and Wynton had an older brother named Branford, who was playing both clarinet and piano by the time he reached second grade. Feeling a few faint nudges of paternal concern that Wynton not fall behind in the musical Futurity Stakes, Ellis hit Hirt for an advance to finance the purchase of a trumpet. "Don't get that boy no trumpet," Davis interrupted. "It's too hard. Let him play something else...
...rambling and sleep-inducing narrative imply certain important questions and he shows one of many ways not to answer them. He solemnly quotes Adams saying "Better that Many Guilty Shall Go Free Than One Innocent Should Suffer" which sounds fine the first twenty times one hears it in third grade American History, but rapidly declines in enchantment value from then on. Inevitably the problems with justice in the streets will be debated nationally and will hopefully receive the full scrutiny that simplistic pseudo-experts like Kunen cannot offer...
Fiftess prominent scientist from Harvard and MIT gathered at a luncheon meeting of the Joint Sciences Electronics Program to honor the program's retiring director, 1981 Nobel lameate Nicholts Bioembergen, Grade University professor of Physics...
...time Dupree reached the fourth grade, the town was already aware of a 60-lb. "flag" football player who scored touchdowns whenever he pleased. In the South, promising athletes, particularly football players, are natural resources. Dupree also played basketball, ran track and pitched for several baseball teams, though he was banned from Little League for being "too good." But his specialty was running with a football. The first time Dupree touched a football in a high school game, he returned a kick 75 yds. for a touchdown...