Word: masters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...woman married is like a pony bought -to be ridden or whipped at the master's pleasure...
...each other. Only in this ending does Author Sourian, himself of Armenian descent, make an overt slip in his knowledgeable treatment of GreekAmerican customs, for consanguineous marriages up to the third cousin are regarded by the Orthodox Church as incest. At 24, Boston-born Peter Sourian is master of a style that is fresh, natural and ebullient. His characters define themselves in the language of the heart, not the tortured cliches of amateur psychologizing. With love and 20-20 vision, Author Sourian has made the season's most appealing U.S. fiction debut...
...Hawley, a medium-posh Connecticut prep school, the thoughts of youth are wrong, wrong thoughts, and the masters are "worn and cynical far beyond their years." Pupils are not, as at nearby Hotchkiss, "under oath" to abstain from smoking; Hawley's "deadly droops" (a Hotchkiss epithet) are merely forbidden this pleasure. For characters like Baxter (an outcast because he arrived from the West Coast, of all places, in a brown suit and porkpie hat) and for McGough (who suffers the crippling handicap of being the headmaster's son), there is only one thing to do at Hawley-defeat...
...Master's Voice. In Paris, Prince Alexandra Douala-Manga-Bell, Deputy from the Cameroons, apologized to the National Assembly for the uneven reading of his speech, explained that his secretary, whose handwriting is poor, had written...
Single study-bedrooms convertible into doubles will predominate and a modified vertical entry will be used in Leverett House's new building, according to tentative plans released yesterday by Master Leigh Hoadley...