Word: masterful
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...Liems replace former master and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Sally Falk Moore and co-master D. Cresap Moore...
Liem's appointment, which took effect July 1, makes him the only acting master of the 12 houses who is a member of a minority group. During the search for a new house master this spring, minority students were vocal in their support of Liem...
Biology professor and Leverett House Master John E. Dowling '57, who serves with Liem on the advisory committee of the Harvard Foundation, said that the new Dunster master is one of very few minority house masters in Harvard's history...
...most minorities at Harvard, the demands are very considerable, more so than for the majority of the faculty. For them to give up a good deal of their outside interests to be a house master is probably more of a sacrifice," said Dowling...
Critics generally agree that Naipaul's fortunes are on a permanent foundation. Irving Howe, no pushover, says, "There can hardly be a writer alive who surpasses him." Alfred Kazin calls Naipaul the "most compelling master of social truth that I know." The writer himself is not overly responsive to praise. He claims to dislike interviews and awards and describes himself simply as a "maker of books." Though England is his base and spiritual home, he prefers the convenience and anonymity of large hotels and jetliners where, 30,000 ft. above the chaos, he can clasp a pillow to his stomach...