Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moderate in Natchez," Negro Comedian Dick Gregory once said, "is a white man who hangs a nigger from a low tree." Though Gregory is a master of bitter hyperbole, there was no exaggeration in his description as far as one Wharlest Jackson, 36, was concerned last week. Jackson had the sort of background designed to infuriate Natchez-style moderates, not to mention extremists. He had been treasurer of the Natchez branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He had actively participated in a boycott of white stores that followed the bombing of another Natchez N.A.A.C.P. official...
...dissatisfaction, I think, was with the startling incompleteness of the picture. Who would have guessed from the profile, for example, that John Finley had written a standard major study of Thucydides before he became Master of Eliot House? Or that during the years in which he has poured his time, his energy and his very life into the Mastership he has produced two further important works on Greek literature? Or that to him was recently dedicated Sir Maurice Bowra's monumental work on Pindar...
...turbulent Harvard community of the last quarter-century he attempted something of more than ordinary difficulty. The plain truth, I think, is that some people are too varied in their energy, their interests, their influence to be caught in a single profile. One cannot cage an eagle. Zeph Stewart Master of Lowell House
...Flatbush gonif, the king of the muzuzahed one-liners. In Flea he acts. Eyes, face, tummy--everything is part of the comic arsenal. Kaplan's timing and moves are astonishing. He never walks but rather changes from shuffle to trudge to leap to glide. And like the true master of high comedy he never bruises a line or gesture by offering it up before the audience is ready...
...chain of islands that once were the Dutch East Indies sullenly transferred his administrative powers to Army General Suharto, 49, the anti-Communist leader of the "New Order" force of generals that has brought Indonesia back into the real world. Yet Sukarno, like most Indonesians, is a master of the intricate, interminable puppet play called wayang, which can go on for hours without reaching a climax. Last week it was wayang...