Word: mastering
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Unlike Larry McMurtry, the other contemporary master of the artful oater, McCarthy is concerned more with the what-was of storytelling than with the what-next. In McMurtry's Old West, cowboys ride off in clouds of eventful folklore. McCarthy's brooding buckaroos fade slowly, like denim, into a meticulously authenticated past. The novels are both stoic laments for the vanishing wrangler and lively repositories of regional landscape, foods, clothes, gear and idioms--enough of them in Spanish to suggest the coming of the bilingual novel...
...reduced by taking cash out of the mix. Stealing will just become more sophisticated. We are already dependent on the mighty god of technology and electricity in ways that make me uncomfortable. We are putting all our eggs in one electronic basket. The servant is becoming the master. DYLENE CYMRAES Jessup...
...Hindu Myth, Image and Pilgrimage" this semester. She also teaches courses on world religions and pluralism in multicultural America, and currently chairs the Committee on the Study of Religion. Next month, she will step down from this post in order to move into her new role as the co-master of Lowell house with her partner and co-master, Dorothy A. Austin...
...Moreover, because of the twice-Oscared Kopple's towering reputation, Wild Man Blues bears the brand of a "vacation film"; as with Scorsese's Cape Fear or Coppola and Altman's recent Grisham adaptations, the idea of Kopple filming a celebrity bio sounds on paper like a hard-working master taking a crowd-pleasing breather...
After graduating from Harvard summa cum laude with a degree in history and science in 1984, Blair obtained a master's in history and philosophy of science from Cambridge University and master's and doctorate degrees in history from Princeton...