Word: prepped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clarity, balance, style and, sometimes, with humor as well. Lewis - a layman who never took orders or a seminary course - had all these qualities in full measure. Born in Belfast and baptized into Anglicanism's Church of Ireland, Lewis tossed off the remnants of his childhood faith at prep school, professed no belief at all through World War I and Oxford. No sudden illumination brought him back to the church; it was, he claimed, sheer logic that drove him step by step from atheism to taking Anglican communion again in 1930. "I'm not in the least...
...contemporary Manhattan and ancillary Fairfield County. Smith has a great marble mausoleum under construction, air-conditioned, flood-and earthquake-proof. Smith moodily lurks there from time to time. The ghosts are of the contemporary autobiographical kind-Smith's own spectral guilty memories acquired in a posh Jesuit prep school. The furies are represented by the Press. Evil is represented by the abandoned power-bitch wife whose cold heart can never be touched by the grace of love, but there are others to offer it in all its forms...
...same concert, they produced two entirely different programs. The first rested on names like Mozart, Beethoven Carter, and Des Pres. The second also returned to an age that is past, but not the one of Beethoven and Des Pres; it recreated the Harvard and Princeton that were small, select prep schools for the ministry and the law, where the boys went out on the field Saturday afternoon to have a good tussle, and the night before they sang songs after supper. As Princeton's and Harvard's football songs thrilled Sanders last night, if you had shut your eyes...
...freshman soccer squad emerged with a 5-0 victory over the University of Connecticut, and the freshman "B" football team suffered an 13-7 setback at the hands of Cheshire Academy, a Connecticut prep school...
Andover dominated the second period play, when the wind was favorable to the prep-school booters. They scored their only goal of the game five minutes into the quarter...