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Word: mastered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hard as it is to believe, the new plan looks worse. Its only virtue is that it frees the Masters' time. Beyond that, it has substantially eliminated student choice, for very few freshmen are likely to be committed enough to one House to write Dean Monro a letter. Furthermore, as one Master commented last spring, the new plan may lead to a massive system of string-pulling. If a freshman happens to know the right people, he may be included on a Master's list of requests; if not, he is unlikely to have a good enough reason to convince...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen and the Houses | 10/16/1965 | See Source »

REPULSION. Poland's Writer-Director Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water) proves himself a master of menace in the case study of a fragile French psychopath (Catherine Deneuve) who works by day in a London beauty salon, spends her off-hours immersed in sexual fantasies and gruesome deeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Records, Cinema, Books: Oct. 15, 1965 | 10/15/1965 | See Source »

...Master of the Star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 15, 1965 | 10/15/1965 | See Source »

...garbled. What I said was that I would have the biggest funeral anybody ever had in Kansas City because, after all the political battles I had been through, folks would show up to be sure the old bastard was dead. Your story said "their old master." I have never been a master of anybody, including myself sometimes, I think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 15, 1965 | 10/15/1965 | See Source »

Summer Home. Today, long past the time when he was a humble aspirant to an old master's throne, Ormandy has all the moves of a maestro to the manner born. He receives visitors in his Bellevue-Stratford Hotel suite (where he has lived with his second wife for the past 15 years) attired in blue satin smoking jacket and matching polka-dot ascot. His still-accented English has taken on the authority of a Charles Boyer, his pronounced limp (an old hip injury aggravated by an automobile accident five years ago) appears less a handicap than a charming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conductors: Hungarian's Rhapsody | 10/15/1965 | See Source »

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