Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million immigrants" who came to master English through the "oldfashioned assimilation policy," I can say that cultural shock is an inevitable reality for any individual entering a foreign country. Bilingual education soothes this shock by enabling the newly arrived immigrant to welcome the new by remembering and appreciating...
...Suga, the tiny Japanese master hairdresser, approaches, and Tiegs bends her knees, lowering her head so that he can give it a last swipe with his brush. A small, wren-colored woman, a stylist, darts up, makes an odd little ducking gesture that may be obeisance, and slips a bracelet on the racing sloop's left arm. Photographer Seltzer, a big, bald, hard-looking man, lies on his belly, chest soothed by a pillow, and begins to talk in the style parodied in Blow-Up: "Good, good, wonderful, great...
WHILE CERTAIN RISKS attend any attempt to read into a single sequence the essence of a feature-length film, one particular scene in Padre, Padrone (Italian for My Father, My Master) goes a long way towards capturing the purpose and theme of this film that dazzled the critics at last year's Cannes Film Festival. A portrait-type shot encompasses the entire family of a Sardinian peasant, Efisio Ledda (Omero Antonutti), seated in the waiting room of a local bank. Compelled to sell his recently inherited farmland in the face of low olive prices and a disastrous winter, the paterfamilias...
When Vorenberg announced his intention to resign as master of Dunster House, he cited a "need to return to a more private life." He nevertheless decided to accept the associate deanship because "I was impressed with the need and opportunity to be useful at the Law School...
James Vorenberg '49, master of Dunster House, said yesterday the alarm went off in Dunster twice early Saturday morning...