Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vladimir Nabokov embraced a similar theme to some wondrous effects in his novel Ada. But the author is no Nabokov, though he shares the master's taste for drollery and erudition. Like Nabokov, he is also something of an outsider. Born in Massachusetts, Theroux has lived abroad most of his adult life. His present home is London. Picture Palace is his tenth novel; The Great Railway Bazaar, an account of the author's international train travels, was a bestseller in 1975, and his reviews and critieism appear with regularity in the U.S. and England...
...European balance of power, had been swept away in blood and destruction of the World War. The Dada movement was the new wave in art--but only of the moment. And Miro, though he remained somewhat aloof from its influence, would come to be acknowledged as the formal master of the surrealist movement which grew as Dada disintegrated...
After finishing his term as co-master, Hutchison will take a sabbatical. He says he will catch up on writing new courses and will catch up on writing new courses and will finish a book on which he is two years behind...
Citing the informal, friendly atmosphere, the "remarkable number of academic achievements" and the diverse student body of Winthrop House, Hutchison called his job as co-master "a supreme experience...
...spirit in Winthrop House has changed quite a bit" since the Hutchisons became co-masters, Davis Dyer, assistant to the Master, said, adding that they selected a "fine tutorial staff" and increased the number of activities...