Is There Life After High School?

June, 1976

The Voice of the High School Graduate"High School," Frank Zappa once said, "isn't a time and a place. It's a state of mind."Especially in recent years, as we've lined up for American Graffiti, watched Happy Days on television and made Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen into a best seller, America has become sort of an ongoing high school assembly.As the most tribal experience many of us will ever undergo, high school must be memorable. Never again are we ranked so precisely by those...

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