Word: cate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general was discussing the problem with a political associate, whose three proud and beautiful cousins had been rejected by the emperor. All at once he found himself staring at a kitchen wench who was tending the fire. He seemed to detect under the soot a deli cate beauty. "But who is this girl?" he demanded excitedly of his host. "Why, nobody at all," the other replied. "She is only a little serving girl, fresh up from the country." The general seized the frightened child and wiped the soot off her face. "I have found a pearl!" he cried...
...will now become an Assistant to William G. Perry, Jr., Director of the Bureau of Study Counsel. Parkman also was connected with the University before his term as Assistant Dean. In 1951-52 he served on the Committee on Scholarships. He is leaving to become the headmaster of Cate School, Santa Barbara, California...
...considered judgment that every one of these basic requirements of scientific, ethical experimentation upon human beings has been violated in the launching of the current programs of curricular change in the public schools of the nation ... To build our defenses of freedom firm and deep, we need to eradi cate, before it is too late, the anti-intellectual tendencies that have crept into our public educational system...
...tragedy begins to break in on the Conboys a few weeks after Christmas, when Cate's twelve-year-old sister Em horrifies the family by taking off her clothes for the poor farm's Peeping Tom "to cure him." Then Cate's brother, who has eloped with one of the farm's wayward girls, learns the name of his wife's seducer and emasculates him. For a girl of curly-headed Cate's puritanical upbringing, all this is shocking enough, but when she finds out that daddy has been unfaithful to mother...
Author West seems as confused as Cate herself in trying to explain this erratic behavior, and as determined as a Hollywood screenwriter in making melodrama out of it. Cate winds up marrying a prissy neighbor boy whom she despises; jilted Lover Christie goes to his death in a blazing barn. Meanwhile, two crazy inmates (the witch diggers), convinced that "the truth" is buried somewhere in the earth, dig tirelessly away on the poor-farm grounds...