Word: endicott
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RECTOR OF JUSTIN, by Louis Auchincloss. A better chronicler of Massachusetts' elite Groton School and its wise, eccentric founder, Endicott Peabody, could hardly be hoped for. In this intricate, fascinating chronicle of "Dr. Prescott" of "Justin," Author Auchincloss finally fulfills his longtime promise of major distinction as a novelist...
...RECTOR OF JUSTIN, by Louis Auchincloss. No better chronicler of Massachusetts' elite Groton School and its wise, eccentric founder, Endicott Peabody, could be hoped for. This intricate, fascinating novel about "Dr. Prescott" of "Justin" finally fulfills Author Auchincloss's long promise as a major novelist...
...RECTOR OF JUSTIN, by Louis Auchincloss. No better chronicler of Massachusetts' elite Groton School and its wise, eccentric founder, Endicott Peabody, could be hoped for. This intricate, fascinating novel about "Dr. Prescott" of "Justin" finally fulfills Author Auchincloss' long promise as a major novelist...
...student believes, or a place of "little shrill idealism," as another thinks? The reader can take his choice though Auchincloss, who apparently enjoyed his own tutelage at Groton, emphasizes the shrillness. Auchincloss is careful to disassociate his hero-headmaster from any real-life counterpart like Groton's Endicott Peabody, but Old Boys everywhere will nevertheless recognize the rector as a familiar enough type. Auchincloss may seem to have expended too much sound and fury over something so small in the universe as a prep school; a crazed old man like Lear (upon whom Prescott was obviously modeled...
When One's Enough. How about returning to Massachusetts to make the first run of his life for elective office? Well, there are problems there too. Democratic Governor Endicott Peabody is up this fall for a second two-year term, but it would hardly seem sporting for Bobby to shove him aside. He could, of course, wait until 1966 and run for Republican Lev Saltonstall's Senate seat, but Brother Teddy is already in the Senate, and even Massachusetts might feel that one Senator Kennedy at a time is enough...