Word: cob
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...less successfully attempts the Bildungsroman of a trumpeter swan with a speech defect. As a cygnet, young Louis has to be furnished with a store-bought trumpet, and soon tootles his way into many hearts and places. White's main achievement, though, is Louis' father, a cultivated cob who talks a brand of rhetoric such as might come of an alliance between Leda and the Late George Apley...
Eric C. Cotter of Saginaw, Mich., and Eliot House (Biology); Stephen Hartz, of Belmont and Leverett House (Social Studies); Barton S. Herskovitz, of BalaCynwyd. Penn., and Kirkland House (Social Studies): Edward R. Houston, of Cos Cob. Conn., and Dunster House (Visual Studies); Kenneth W. Jost, of Nashville. Tenn., and Leverett House (History): Jon A Lanham, of Trenton, N. J., and Dudley House (English): Charles A, Linker, of Scarsdale, N. Y., and Dudley House (Biochemical Sciences); Ronald T. Luke, of Dallas, Tex., and Kirkland House (Social Studies); Barry A. Margolin, of Queens Village and Kirkland House (Social Studies); Kenny R. Marotta...