Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposal, that students be allowed to take one of their regular four courses pass-fail, was drafted by Martin Slate '67, HPC representative from Winthrop House, Bruce W. Chalmers, Master of Winthrop House, and Standish H. Meacham, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Winthrop House...
...think up a program to do so. The energies of that tiny group at the apex of government were now directed else-where. If a program was to be forth-coming, it would have to be the work of the civil-rights movement, with whatever assistance it could master in government departments and universities. There was no reason to assume that the movement would fail in this, but in fact it did so: totally. The civil-rights movement had no program for going beyond the traditional and relatively easy issues of segregation and discrimination, and could not organize itself...
...Force major general, he once recalled that his father took him on his first airplane ride when he "was barely old enough to strap on a parachute," let him take the controls as soon as they were airborne. White naturally gravitated to West Point, graduated in 1952, earned a master of science degree in aeronautical engineering at the University of Michigan, became a jet pilot. He married a petite blonde he met on a West Point football weekend; they had a son and a daughter...
...head." The warmth he learned while nurturing his "primitive roots" in Memphis. The cool came later when he studied composition at the University of Southern California, steeping himself in Bartok, Stravinsky and the impression- ists by day, slipping off to play jam sessions by night. After earning a master's degree in 1961, he joined the Chico Hamilton Quintet and switched from alto to tenor sax because "it seemed to be the voice I was hearing. It can be such a bitch, but with it you can draw a line of prancing dolphins...
...master spirit of this society is the convict Harcamone, in solitary confinement, awaiting the guillotine. The execution, described by an inmate as "making two of 'Pretty Boy,' " dominates the book. Harcamone is in everybody's mind, and he is the principal figure in the homosexual love fantasies of the narrator. Much of the force of Miracle of the Rose depends on the authenticity of the prison argot. As a ten-time loser who has spent a good part of his first 35 years in reformatories and jails, Genet doubtless knows the con's language like...