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Great goaltending is the reason that Harvard has averaged just two goals a game against the Elis in the last three years. Schwalb has an added incentive to be great tonight. He graduated from Belmont Hill, the Boston-area prep school that spawned Bill Cleary Jr. '56, senior defenseman Bill Cleary III and Fusco...
...stubborn pursuit of Frankie is supposed to be his bad relationship with his mother and his jealousy of his brother. But the reasons for these feelings are never fully explored; Morgan just gives vague intimations at various times of his "alienation" from his previous rich boy, New England prep school self. The premise of the family's move is odd as well; Morgan's father is supposed to have lost his business, but why move all the way across the country? Again, we are not told...
Tuff Turf tries to reconcile two essentially irreconcilable methods of artistically treating youth in America--either powerfully, viscerally, and almost animalistically, like West Side Story, or neurotically and confusedly like any one of a number of Robby Benson movies. If Morgan Hiller is really a perceptive, intelligent New England prep school teenager, why does he fall so quickly in love with a rather stupid Los Angeles gang girl, thereby subjecting himself to violent beatings and possible death? And if he is a hopeless romantic, why does he have such neurotic, pseudo-intellectual conversations and relationships with the people around...
Currently the top team in the nation (as ranked by USA Today). DeMatha has won more national championships than any prep team in history...
...narrator is a boy in prep school, a classmate of Justine's son's, when he hears that story. Over the next half-century he uncovers the others, until, around 1980, he interviews one of the last survivors, Maud Erskine, who is 93. "I suppose it's appropriate that the Book Class should end in a book," she says...