Word: master
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Truman is a very busy man; we don't start telling him what to do," Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, remarked Thursday. Truman had planned to reside at Lowell during his visit. Perkins called it "something of an imposition" to invite "a man who is so busy," but he said there would be room for Truman in Lowell House whenever he could manage to come...
...Masters of the House will apply the corporation's funds as credits on the rents of financially less able students, much the same as under the previous system. "The new plan may provide slightly less flexibility, but it maintains the main objectives as the former rent adjustment system," Charles H. Taylor, Master of Kirkland House, commented last night...
John J. Conway, Master of Leverett House, indicated, that the "increase in general costs" brought about the new system, while Gordon V. Fair, Master of Dunster House, deemed the new plan "within the normal rules and regulations of the College--something which the rent adjustment system...
Benevolent Tyrant. By 1932, when DeMille began to make talkies, he had already produced a series of Biblical epics (King of Kings, The Ten Commandments). He strolled his sets, a demanding and benevolent tyrant, a chair boy always behind him with a chair so that the master could sit down without looking, a mike boy always beside him so that the master could issue orders. A secretary trailed him, pencil at the ready. At home, a handy pad awaited his jotted-down inspirations in every room -even the bathroom...
...seem to say much; its fragile content defies explanation; its meaning must be found, not only in the haiku's simple imagery, but in the trains of reverie evoked in the reader. Even to the Japanese, this is not always an easy task. A haiku composed by the master, Matsuo Basho (1644-94), has puzzled his disciples for 273 years...