Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time when Kenyans solved their political problems with the panga, a two-foot-long bush knife that the Man Mau terrorists wielded to bloody effect against British rule. Independence and parliamentary government demand more subtle solutions. Kenya's President Jomo Kenyatta, whom the British once jailed as the master of the Mau Mau, has been quick to adapt...
...that the worst enemy of art is boredom. "The child starts out with a dull teacher. Plunk, plunk. What should be a beautiful experience becomes drudgery. Terrible. We must keep them in flames." Piatigorsky keeps the fire aglow. Every week or so, about a dozen talented students in his master's class come to his big house in West Los Angeles and form a semicircle in his living room. Piatigorsky slumps his big frame (6 ft. 3½ in.) into an easy chair, and one by one the students play a solo. Now the old cellist closes his mournful...
...first of the Fall plays will be Gammer Gurton's Needle, a farcical Tudor comedy by the anonymous Mr. S. Master of Arts. Steven H. Kaplan '68 will direct this--and possibly The Friar and the Pardoner, a short interlude by Thomas Heywood--in mid-October...
Johnson brought back from Dallas with him on Nov. 22, 1963, soon won fame of sorts as the President's most ardent public drumbeater ("I sleep each night a little better because Lyndon Johnson is my President") and as a master of purple-hued prose. He is also, it seems, a tolerably knowledgeable history buff, gushed almost as effusively over Historian Thomas Macaulay in last week's Saturday Review as he ever did over Lyndon Johnson...
...Committee on Houses modifies the selection system along the lines now under discussion, it should not fail -- as it did this year -- to give students enough information on exactly how the final version will operate. The lack of communications this year resulted in monumental confusion. As Master Gill has pointed out, any modification should be accompanied by a clear, concise explanation. The Committee should improve the original system, not scrap it, and the compromise proposals seem well-designed to accomplish this refinement. Under no circumstances should the Committee kill or cripple choice in curing "raiding" and the "popularity contest...