Word: begley
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...hiding in Nazi-occupied Poland, Begley did not attend school until he was twelve. He says he read constantly and learned Romance languages under the tutelage of his mother and a local university professor...
Nonetheless, Begley said that he didn’t have much trouble academically once he arrived in the United States...
...Begley moved from Europe to Brooklyn, where he attended Erasmus Hall High School. Despite his relative inexperience with English, he won a borough-wide short-story competition. He was admitted to Harvard at age 16, and without having visited the campus, accepted the offer...
America had surprised Begley with its comparatively limitless freedom, he says, and Harvard even more...
...wonderful, absolutely mind-boggling,” Begley says of first moving to Brooklyn. “Where shall I begin? It was the scenes of extraordinary plenty. Poland was a desert state, even France was a pretty grim place to be in 1947—dark shortages of everything, an immense kind of fatigue...