Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem is all too real right now for thousands of high-school students. In their panic to get into college-and in their wild search for the best scholarship deals-today's youngsters have acquired the habit of applying to as many schools as possible. One Connecticut boy, for instance, was able to choose between Amherst, which offered him no scholarship. Bates, which offered $600, Wesleyan with a $500 offer, Holy Cross with $700, and Yale with $1,250. Another boy sent Princeton an irate letter after he was rejected, pointed out that of the 23 colleges he applied...
...Washington, D.C., the wife of a State Department official is even planning to move to France so that her two sons can learn French and German and thus have an advantage when the time for college comes. One Princeton alumnus hounded his alma mater to take in his boy, even though he knew the boy would probably flunk. The father's argument: unless his son got in, he wouldn't be eligible for the Princeton Club of New York...
...almost every subject in school; and when he turned 13 his body all at once caught up with his mind. "It was wonderful," he says. "One day I was a scrawny little thing that everybody could beat up, and the next time I looked around I was the biggest boy in the class. I could run faster, jump higher, dive better than almost any body, and all the girls wanted to feel my muscles." His sense of relief was so terrific that it became a kind of constitutional euphoria, a lifelong fizz of high spirits...
Everybody told Sam Bernstein that his boy was a born musician?which was exactly what Sam was afraid of. He thought of the musicians he had known as a boy in Russia as klezmer, the ghetto pagliacci, living from one free meal to the next, and he shuddered for his son's future...
...student in conducting. But it was in the late Serge Koussevitzky. the Boston Symphony Orchestra's matchless showman, that Bernstein found his musical father. Koussevitzky invited him to join the conducting class at Tanglewood's summer music school. The old man called him Lenyush ka, and told friends: "The boy is a new Koussevitzky, a reincarnation...