Word: masters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tutoring him themselves. They did. At 13, Paul won a New York City high school equivalency diploma. At 14, he entered Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music. By the time he was 17, he had played three major recitals in Carnegie Hall. At 20, he received his Master's degree from Juilliard. He is now working on his Ph.D. and writing a treatise on contemporary violin technique...
...euphemistically known as "leadership laboratory," has been officially halved to an hour a week by both the Army and Navy, and will probably be eliminated entirely. The brass is well aware that undergraduates can no longer be made to plod through four years of weekly close-order rituals to master what basic trainees learn in the first few days of boot camp. Admits a high-ranking Army ROTC officer in the Pentagon: "Leadership laboratory may well be the program's worst enemy. It's got to go if we are to survive...
...Concepts of Warfare and National Defense," for example, civilians teach the political, economic and geographical aspects while an Army officer expounds on the military side. In addition, the Army has raised the academic credentials of its professors of military science; it now demands that they hold at least a master's degree...
...tradition of artistic elegance passed on to succeeding generations of silversmiths, and continued even after the discovery of Peru's rich silver mines in 1533 made the metal available to Europe's relatively common people. A selective congeries of master craftsmen began to turn out standard household items: porringers, tankards, sherry beakers, stirrup cups, and such utilitarian items as knives and spoons. Their art was so prolific, in fact, that for years nobody paid much attention to the artistic quality of their products...
Buckley added that he was particularly interested in the Leverett House Opera Society. "I can't sing a note, though," he said. I'll probably spend the whole year running around like a wire-haired terrier looking for my Master's voice...