Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Belgium, to see Ensor as a man of the people. But Ensor's waterfront lumpenproletariat look just as subhuman as his judges and police officers. As a political artist, he was both strident and unfocused. The Good Judges, 1891, is a curdled parody of Daumier, without the master's swift economy of feeling. It is impossible to tell what Ensor thought about politics, except that he was in favor of free education and universal suffrage, and against the riot squad - not the most developed of ideologies. He disliked the Belgian monarchy and went so far as to make...
...MIND of the playwright is not unlike that of the master criminal. Before acting, each must construct a well-conceived, meticulous plan, tightly bound together, without any loose ends. In the case of Softly Stealing, the new Kirkland House musical, the mastermind is that of Tom Fuller '74 of Harvard's Gilbert and Sullivan fame, and the plot rocks with enough surprising twists and turns to be worthy of the reputation of Edward Sable, its notorious but good-hearted Victorian robber hero...
Construction of a veterinary school is a top priority for Jean Mayer, president of Tufts. Mayer was a professor of Nutrition and master of Dudley House until he left Harvard last spring...
...Detroit because she feared she lacked the self-discipline to handle credit. Now, as co-owner of a recently founded catering business, she needs credit; the business cannot borrow unless Miss Brooks and her partner, another single woman, prove their personal creditworthiness. Says Janet: "I've tried Master Charge, Carte Blanche, Diners Club, local stores, you name it. I walk into a store and apply for a charge account; I get back a notice that my credit has been refused because I have no credit history...
Rock beats are thrustingly phallic, and lyrics are often tauntingly and cruelly masculine. So are the crotch-wrenching, guitar-pumping stage moves of such founding fathers as Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley. Rock seems so hostile that relatively few women master the guitar, its basic instrument...