Word: yearbooks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high school year book said that in 10 years he would be wandering around the Himalayas doing research and playing strange music. This apparently far-out prediction proved to be prophetic, but chronologically off the mark. Prone to unconventionality and adventure, Rothenberg had already done exactly what the yearbook had forecasted within only three years after graduating from Staples High School in Westport, Conn...
Rothenberg is not sure about the future, but since he has already done what his yearbook predicted, "I need to make up some new thing to do in 10 years--something that hasn't been done before." At times he feels he would like to get a more traditional music education, and yet he doesn't want to "do music in the academic way." Rothenberg is also in the Outing Club, and has long been involved in the environmental and ecological movements...
...convincing American Blacks that Israel plays an important role in maintaining the South African regime, Israel's trade relations with South Africa are miniscule compared to that of the United States, the EEC, the Arab states and even Black African nations economic relations with that regime (see the 1979 Yearbook of International Trade Statistics). Even more importantly, American Jews are not, and cannot be finally responsible for braeli government policy. For any Black person or organization to tie positive dialogue with Jews to the state of Israel's relations with South Africa is both antisemitic and shortsighted. Surely Blacks themselves...
Herman and Elizabeth Roth's youngest son skipped two grades, entering high school at twelve. His senior yearbook was premonitory: "A boy of real intelligence, combined with wit and common sense." Roth recalls that at Bucknell University, in Lewisburg, Pa., he asked his English instructor if he should participate in activities that would help him get along with people. "Why would you want to do a thing like that?" replied the prof. Says the reluctant joiner: "It was wonderful ... the first great line of my education...
...However, the denomination has no hard data, and the standard Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches still uses a 1958 estimate of 5.5 million...