Los cuarenta alumnos de tan singular escuela de primaria dispensaron una entusiasta acogida a la Directora General e interpretaron en su honor una breve obertura musical.
Part of the reason the M-R system has never caught on with the general public is that it liberally uses two diacritic marks: the apostrophe and the breve.
This makes spelling inconvenient, not least because the breve (a symbol that resembles a C on its back and is placed above a vowel) cannot be reproduced on most computers.
Too often they seem to be getting only cursory instruction. (One test: They all should know what "breve"--a term Starbucks uses for half-and-half--means.) Add new pastries and sandwiches and ever more varieties of coffees and teas.