Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said that he was, he was handed a poll and asked to fill it out. Only about ten or fifteen seniors refused to take the poll--the other 529 filled it out regardless of political penchant. Once they had completed the poll, their name was checked off a master list in order to prevent repeats...
...exhibit truly worthy of that old master, Fidel Castro. For lovers of impressionism, there was a blurred U.S. combat film showing a Green Beret trooper slinging grenades into a peasant's hut in Viet Nam. For pop-art fans, there was a cartoon drawing of Donald Duck, Superman and Foxy Fox representing three American oil companies fighting for petroleum rights in an underdeveloped country. Lovers of camp art could watch a carefully edited Tarzan film that illustrated Johnny Weissmuller's "white supremacy" over African tribesmen. And for the surrealist school, there was a likeness of a Metro-Goldwyn...
...winced visibly at a beggar who had been blinded, deplored disease, illiteracy (80%), and the poached-out game lands that the natives suffer with "silent resignation." "Shooting for the pot" (living off the land) for part of the journey, as did the Stanley expedition, Glenn briefly tried to master hurling the knobkerrie, a throwing stick, and missed his target. But he used a Winchester 70 rifle to dispatch-in two shots-a massive rogue elephant that was ravaging the crops. "There was a cause for destruction," he told his viewers. "But I'm not proud of killing this great...
...Barenboim-and all the while taking a few hours out here and there to master a new score...
Under the present system seniors who wish to live off-campus must present reasons for leaving the Houses. Richard T. Gill '48, chairman of the subcommittee and Master of Leverett House, said the Mather planners had suggested that "ideally any senior should be able to leave the Houses and we hope it works out that...