Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...career had less exciting origins. At two, his parents smuggled him into a matinee of the San Francisco Symphony; at four, unappeased by a toy violin ("this travesty of my longings enraged me"), he acquired his first instrument; by the time he was twenty he was an established master on both sides of the Atlantic...
...surroundings and situations, Le Carr�'s worlds may not be precise, but they carry the air of verisimilitude?and that is enough. The author is, after all, not a master spy but a master spy novelist. His success at simulation comes as much from research as from instinct. For The Honourable Schoolboy, for example, Cornwell made five trips to Southeast Asia. Pinned down by automatic weapons fire in Cambodia, he dived under a car and coolly noted his impressions on file cards...
DIED. Kurt Adler, 70, chorus master and conductor at New York's Metropolitan Opera (1945-73); after a long illness; in Butler, N.J. A calm man in a frenetic job, Adler said of his chorus, "They are like any other group of people, as good as you make them be and as bad as you let them...
...created by Faculty legislation in response to student demands for direct participation on Faculty committees. Officially a standing committee of the Faculty, the student seizure of University Hall in 1969 triggered the formation of the combined CHUL, which is composed of a student representative from each House, every House master and eight administrators including the deans of the College and the Faculty. CHUL's sole official role is to recognize undergraduate organizations; beyond this, the Committee serves to review undergraduate regulations and advise the dean...
...CHUL's structure will be up for review this year. Members believe the body is too big and cumbersome, making spontaneous discussion difficult. "It's a big group atmosphere. You have the feeling that there isn't the interaction you could have with a smaller group," J. Woodland Hastings, Master of North House, says...