Word: master
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dresses like a careless football coach and lives in a palace of oiled woods and lush fabrics; his mostly Hungarian sheep dog refuses to ride in the 1961 Studebaker he drives and Heimert refuses to trade the car in for anything but a Mercedes 300SL. He is Professor Heimert, Master of Eliot House Heimert, the Undergraduates' Advocate Heimert -- a creature of the university, but not wholly or solely professor, administrator or student...
...sixties. A pilgrimage to Berkeley two summers ago to give a course convinced him that the present is one of those yeasty moments in the national life which "historians writs about but never quite believe in." This year he ratified his commitment to this moment, and became Master of Eliot House...
...switchboard of the nearby Hotel Formentor. The basic writing of the Travel Guide to Europe is done by Fielding and Joe Raff, who mimics his master's prose, which has been described as Rotarian baroque. Judy Raff and Robert Bone are mainly responsible for the Super-Economy Guide, and Nancy Fielding is doyenne of the Shopping Guide...
...this century, Vladimir Nabokov, master of fiction and of chess (TIME cover, May 23), operates in somewhat the same manner. The film of one of his early works, Laughter in the Dark, eerily reproduces the commonplaces of experience but gives them an irrational tilt. The viewer who accepts the Nabokovian construction can experience an acute problem of reorientation when he steps from the theater into the world...
...control of his story. In his Irish bones, he knows something that many writing contemporaries do not understand: that failure is, in fact, the natural state of man. Converting chronic self-pity into the beginnings of self-awareness, Power proves himself, if not quite a tragedian, at least a master alchemist at producing final honor from final defeat...