Word: prepped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Free & Equal. If the setting is like a boys' prep school mess hall, the talk is still music. And even when participants joke about the master ("There is a man called Roody,/Who never seems too moody"), the remarkable gentleness and modesty of Rudolf Serkin inspires utmost respect and admiration. Said Israeli Cellist Raphael Sommer, who came from Paris just for Marlboro: "It is a great lesson in humility for me to study under such great men as Serkin and Casals. It is an incredible spiritual uplift-like a ray of sunshine from those above us. And to actually...
...system of four "tracks"-basic, general, college-prep and honors-finds for every student a place that matches his ability, although it differs from "ability grouping" as practiced experimentally elsewhere in that it fixes curricula firmly beginning with the fourth grade and allows little choice of courses. Kids are permitted to jump up a track or so, if capable. Keeping classwork commensurate with abilities seems to decrease the incentive to quit school: Washington's dropout rate has declined to 36%, from 52% when Hansen took over seven years...
...with this trilogy of short novels about the last days of British rule in Malaya; Britain has no place to send another Kipling, Maugham, Forster, Greene or Waugh. Author Burgess' witness to the waning of the imperial day is Victor Crabbe, a teacher in a multiracial prep school solemnly modeled by its British founders after Eton and Harrow (Burgess himself served for three years as an education officer in Malaya). Bemusedly, Crabbe sees that the system is crumbling, but the snobbery is not. Malays hate Indians, who hate Chinese. Every Asian hates the British, and secretly despises himself...
...last. Susan's death from cancer last year, Wagner said, had reinforced his determination to spend more time with his two sons, one "on the very threshold of manhood, the other soon approaching that state." Beside him on the City Hall dais stood Duncan, 18, a prep-school senior, in a sports coat and chinos, and Robert Jr., 21, who will graduate from Harvard this week, in a dark suit. "They have a claim upon me for companionship and counsel which I must now grant," Wagner said...
...they hadn't seen their parents since Sunday, but presumed they were having a good time. "My father said he wanted to see all the famous people in his class." Susan Bradley, a student at Concord Academy, said. "My father knows lots of people up here," Jerry Downs, another prep school student, said, "after he's looked at their name tags...