The year he graduated marked the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, and ballroom dancing was banned.
He describes a generation of bored young graduates, marking time and detached from the world.
There are often graduated marks on the inside of a rice cooker, indicating how much rice and water should be added, or instructions on the package of rice.
If nothing else, the Prologue is perhaps the most soberly named concept car in recent memory, as its chief purpose is to announce the brand's new design direction, now under the full influence of Audi design chief and Volkswagen design graduate Mark Lichte.
For many Americans, high school graduation marks the end of formal education, and for others it is the foundation for higher education at the college and graduate levels.
"It was a wonderful ceremony," said Barbara Golda, the beaming mother of a new graduate, who marked the occasion by wearing the university's school color -- violet -- in her hat, her nail polish (fingers and toes), her shawl and the flowers on her dress.
Patrizia Mondello, MD, graduated with mark 110/110 cum laude in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Messina (Italy) in 2009 defending an experimental thesis entitled "Primary Lymphoma of the central nervous system" and is currently attending the fifth year of the residency in Oncology.
