Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What is this Master of Light we call Brautigan...
Moving to Marion, Ohio, young Harding dabbled in teaching, browsed briefly over law books, sold insurance, played his cornet at the roller-skating rink, and rode the bench as substitute first baseman on the town's ball club. He also began to master perhaps his most highly developed skill: draw poker...
...announcing that the Festival would host speakers who might later attend meetings for blacks only--possibly including meetings sponsored by Harvard Afro--Master Bruce Chalmers said, "We can't expect to control what these people do in private after they have done what they were invited to do here...
...Their wit not withstanding, his comments on the effect of air conditioning on New York family life do fall into this class, as they become contrived expositions of trivia. He is safer--and much more entertaining--when he sticks to the looser descriptive style of which he is a master...
Papers. This was old P. Bender Bartlett's specialty, and the Bartiett Boom remains standard. Although many variations are permitted, it was the master's own strategy to assign one two-page and one thirty-page paper each term. He criticized the two-pager in great detail, and marked it stiffly; thus students were driven to invest a good deal of time into the thirty-pager--only to get it back ungraded, with the comment, "I don't think one can measure an effort of this sort by a number or letter...