Word: masters
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...luminaries who belonged to Shinnecock Hills over the years learned the game under the strict tutelage of a single task-master. Born in County Angus, Scotland, Charlie Thom emigrated to America in 1898 and became the professional at Shinnecock in 1906. He retired in 1961, but at age 96 Charlie Thom is still a fixture of Shinnecock Hills. A truly great player who never felt the need to prove his talents by playing on the tour, Thom is a throwback to the early Scotch golfing missionaries who devoted their lives to spreading the gospel of the game...
Forty years earlier in his career, Matisse had demonstrated, with his big canvases of dancing figures, that he was a master of energetic motion. There is a clear difference, though, between the degree of energy that a pencil or brush can express and the kind of incisive force that the bite of his scissors gave to Matisse's later image of a figure in ecstatic movement, La Danseuse, 1949. The directness of such a cut-out could not be repeated in paint. No drawn profile could approach the strictness of a cut edge, and the paper...
...triumphant return to the entertainment world, however, in the 1958 Broadway production of Ulysses in Nighttown, playing Leopold Bloom. In his varied roles onstage and in film-from the hapless movie entrepreneur in The Producers to the man turned beast in Ionesco's The Rhinoceros-Mostel was the master of paradoxes: a graceful fat man and a wise buffoon...
...very real point of contact does exist between HIID and undergraduates: each year, the Edward S. Mason Program in Economic Development brings 20 to 25 public officials from foreign countries--ranging from Brunei to Swaziland--to Harvard, where they complete studies for a master's degree. Many of these representatives of the Third World elites--a potpourri of cabinet ministers, bank directors and corporate managers--enroll in undergraduate economics and government courses...
...college freshman in 1953, a self-described "kid from the boon-docks" of western New York. "This place has been very important in my life. Harvard has been very good to me," Keenan says and adds after a moment's reflection, "It still is." He served as master of North House for five years during the late '60s and early '70s and spearheaded a fundraising drive as director of the Russian Research Center...