Word: quite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that, Schuyler has proved to be an educational magnet for what Principal Becker calls "drop-ins." One recent graduate was a married and divorced mother of two who returned to finish high school after a 13-year lapse. Still another was a 17-year-old Negro boy who had quit a New York City high school and entered Schuyler four years later after he had been sent to Albany by his parents to live with an aunt. He graduated in two years, now has a steady job with a local medical center. "Schuyler is a nice school," he says...
...Angeles' unauthorized Insight is edited by Barry Tavlin, 17, who quit his regular school paper because he felt it was too often censored. Inviting contributions from students throughout the city, Insight objects to adult complaints about teen-age tendencies toward freer sex, claims that grown-ups are the ones "who patronize topless restaurants" and "publish and read the sadistic sex magazines." When adults contend that sexy movies might "corrupt the minds of our youth," they imply "either that the adults have corrupt minds already or that it's O.K. to corrupt them...
...could wrap around his little finger. His home town of Salzburg was the obvious setting, with its magnificent Festspielhaus. But Karajan was unwilling to ask the Austrian government for a single groschen of the customary state financial support; his official relations have been strained since 1964, when he quit as director of the Vienna State Opera because of "bureaucratic interference...
...Negro neighborhood leaders ordered a boycott, kept it closed for five days, demanded that the board provide an all-Negro teaching staff. Since then, unruly students have reflected their parents' pique by disrupting classes, committing wanton acts of vandalism. This month, the embattled white principal, Stanley R. Lisser, quit to take a better-paying job in educational research...
...reporter was Mary Ellen Gale '62, a slim brunette who quit her job on the Philiadelphia Bulletin 18 months ago to work for the Southern Courier. As with the Courier's other seven reporters (all of them in their late teens to mid-twenties), her job is to look in on events that no other newspaper in Alabama would deign to cover -- demonstrations by civil rights organizations, plans of anti-poverty agencies, racial killings, piecemeal gains in integration, and the oddities of Alabama life that are galling to Negroes but to which whites are generally oblivious...