Trotter, Harding, Anderton and Chase are the precocious, school-uniform-wearing, Oxbridge-material heroes at the independent "King William's School" in Birmingham.
"She was precocious at school, and very inquisitive.
Following the exploits of Frank Layke Andersonn), a precocious high school runaway who finds haven in a low-rent burlesque house in Amsterdam, the story fully embraces its 1984 setting.
"I also suspect," he said, "in this country and throughout the world, a lot of really bright, precocious high school students will find this a great playground".
Georgia O'Keeffe and Oscar Wilde put in appearances, but they are just the kind of popular figures a precocious high school student would admire.
Holed up on location immediately after wrapping the "Potter" series, and playing Sam, a feisty, precocious high school senior on the cusp of a new life, was, she said, unexpectedly cathartic.
Like Hit-Girl, she was terrifyingly precocious – leaving school at 16 with eight O-Levels before being hired as a showbusiness reporter on a casual basis by the Daily Star.
Rather, it will offer course materials as ingredients of learning that can then be combined with teacher-student interaction somewhere else -- or simply explored by, say, professors in Chile or precocious high school students in Bangladesh.
Sophie B. Altman, who in 1961 started a television quiz show for precocious high school students, later added pep bands and cheerleaders and was as surprised as anybody when "It's Academic" became the world's longest-running quiz show, died on Saturday in Washington.
PAGE C11 SOPHIE B. ALTMAN, 95 In 1961 she started a television quiz show for precocious high school students, later added pep bands and cheerleaders and was as surprised as anybody when the show, "It's Academic," became the world's longest-running quiz show.
