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"Industrial society has made of high school a social system of adolescents...set apart, in an institution of their own."
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"Cordellas are invisible symbols that surface. As they do, they show the universe in a new light by the very nature of their relationships. In a very limited fashion, alphabets do the same thing, for o…"
— Jane Roberts
Literature1929–1984
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