Word: manors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...home in a laboratory than the Bunsen burners.) More than that, though, it was Carlo's attitude: he couldn't stand the unsophisticated people like Larry who were supposed to be "his people," but he could never penetrate the curtain of nobles se oblige that the born-to-the-manor types put up. Even the crudest preppies--the hockey players who had gone post-graduate at Andover for a year, the ones who wore the old school but still used "very" and "fuckin" interchangeable--they never accepted him, either...
...sign on the Union's notice board attracted his eye. It had all the key words: "party," "free beer," "firecracker punch," and "Pine Manor." Walter made a note of the day and time. He had heard of Pine Manor, and he had heard it called Pine Mattress. The name aroused his baser instincts...
...Pine Manor--a women's school tucked away in surburban Brookline next to a country club--that held promise. Rumor had it that Harvard men were special there. The alleged magic of the school name might work. As Walter put it to himself in more rational terms, the probable benefits in companionship, when weighed against the necessary exertion to try for them, seemed to make the trip worth the gamble. He planned to make an expedition...
...Cambridge University in England. With Alika, Scott studied animal psychology at the University of Strasbourg, and began turning his attention to a growing brood of rare monkeys that the two were collecting from friends who had tired of them as pets. In 1973 they bought a ramshackle 17th century manor house at Verlhiac, 100 miles northeast of Bordeaux, and turned it into a simian paradise...
...monkeys - including some woolies, sakis, titis, cotton-head tamarins and marmosets, as well as the howlers - live in somewhat better style than the Lindberghs, who keep only two of the manor's ten drafty rooms heated. By contrast, their primate wards have roomy indoor cages painted pink (the monkeys' favorite color) that are equipped with real tree branches to perch on, ultraviolet lights to ward off infection, radiators, circulating water, and hammocks for naps. Their diet is lavish. Scott calls it "saturation feeding"; Alika, though promoting it, calls it gas-pillage - "sheer waste." The animals are served such...