Word: nolen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Through the 1930s, founder William W. Nolen (Harvard, class of 1884) offered four-and eight-hour review sessions before every major midterm and final exam...
...years the two [Nolen and his partner Hollis Webster] taught those in difficulties how to solve their problems, helping students through Harvard, saving them time and the discomfiture of failure," read a brochure from about...
...Nolen soon expanded the services to secondary school students who failed one or more Harvard entrance exams. After intense tutoring, these students could retake the exams for entrance for the following fall...
...shop as an unlicensed dentist in San Francisco, falls in love with his best friend Marcus Schouler's girl, Trina (soprano Catherine Malfitano, in a marvelously sensual performance). After Trina wins $5,000 in a lottery -- and McTeague's practice is ruined when the jealous Marcus (baritone Timothy Nolen) reports him to the authorities -- the relationship sinks slowly into a morass of miserliness and sexual dysfunction. Driven nearly mad, McTeague kills his wife, steals her money and sets out for Death Valley, grimly pursued by Marcus: Wozzeck meets The Ballad of Baby...