Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other Administrative members who will participate in the discussion are Dean Watson, John J. Conway, Master of Leverett House, and Charles H. Taylor, Master of Kirkland House. Barnett Frank '61, who will moderate, plans to open the floor to general questions after opening remarks by panel members...
...occasion was not without its lighter moments. After the President had remarked there exist no symbols of a Master's office, newly-inaugurated John M. Bullitt '43 turned to the mural behind him and said: "We are surrounded by symbolisms." He quoted another Master as calling the painting "the death and transfiguration of a Chevrolet...
Nothing happened. He reeled in quickly, the plug streaking like a toy torpedo. For an hour he worked over a 100-yd. stretch of water like a master artilleryman laying down a barrage pattern. Nothing happened. But Oscar Flanders, finest surf caster on Martha's Vineyard, knew better than to expect an easy strike from a striped bass-a silver-green fighter with a flippant challenge that turns men into lifelong, zealous pursuers...
...these were brilliant people, and occasionally they flash free of the author's clutch, as when "Monk" Lewis, master of the supernatural, jolts Shelley by ruling him out of a ghost-story session because Shelley is an atheist; or when Shelley's friend, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, hopes to seduce Mary while Shelley is away from home; or when Shelley gets a swimming lesson and plunges straight to the bottom, tempted by death and an answer to the Great Mystery. Despite such antics, Mary's father, husband and friends were schooled-and schooled her-to put intellect above...
North by Northwest. The master's Hitchcockiest yarn in years gives a picture of the CIA that would make any real-life operative laugh his head off; nevertheless, suspense guaranteed. With Gary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason...