Word: preps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mean I recognized the goddam kid right away. He's my Jewish-Indian literary cousin Joe Hosea, the one who got thrown out of prep school in Bombay because the phonies thought he was trying to burn down the school. A very big deal. I mean all he did was drop a match in a pile of wood shavings in the carpentry shed. Then my literary aunt and uncle packed him off to military school. Way off in the Himalayas, for Chrissake...
...consultation with undergraduates. Mrs. Bunting has committed herself to a mammoth $7.5 million fund-raising drive to complement a gift from the Ford Foundation for undergraduate dormitory housing. Her plans fail to deal with the vital question of whether girls should be forced to live in the clearly restrictive, prep-school atmosphere of a dormitory, however lavish, rather than in the free environment of an apartment of off-campus house...
...JOURNAL (shown on Mondays). "Eton." A tour of England's prestigious prep school allows the visitor to mingle with the collared-and-gowned boys, visit rowing and cricket practice, attend a debate on North Viet Nam, assess the old customs and the new look in curriculum...
With his literary criticism and political essays, Mailer hit his stride as a phrase-maker; even his erstwhile debating opponent, William F. Buckley, calls him the most quotable writer of our time. Mailer dismissed Salinger as "the greatest mind ever to stay in prep school," said that Scranton's wheeler-dealers at the Republican convention "stood by idle wheels," and labelled Lyndon Johnson "the bully with an Air Force...
...Baseball 10, New Prep...