Word: preps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...handle followed Punch through four expensive prep schools and into the Marines, which he joined at age 17 to his parents' distress. But the corps gave Sulzberger a hard edge of purpose, and after World War II service in the Philippines, he enrolled at Columbia College, made the dean's list his first semester and graduated in 1951. After uninspired tours as a reporter for the Milwaukee Journal and the Times, Sulzberger took the first in his succession of management jobs at the family paper. He also took a Times secretary as his wife, had a son, Arthur...
...Naval Academy Prep...
David is their youngest son, a curly-haired Adonis who dreams like a Don Quixote. David's tragedy is that he confuses morality, dignity romance and passion. He fights Hitler at Dunkirk, still haunted by the memory of prep school bigotry and the hollow echo of his father's words, offered as a feeble solace: "Some of my best friends are anti-Semites...
...first he didn't like the people he met. The rich kid's friends weren't like the rich kid except that they were rich and had gone to prep school. But they had all gone to Audover and Deerfield and Exeter, while the rich kid had at least gone to a Catholic prep school where you had to take religion and the priests frowned on playing squash. So Paco and the rich kid had at least one bond between them, which was that neither of them knew how to play squash but could recite a mean Hail Mary...
Besides, by the time he went back to California for the holidays, Paco had learned something else. He learned that there were an awful lot of pretty young ladies who had gone to prep schools along with all the squash players, and that the young ladies found fiery Chicano revolutionaries interesting. Interesting as long as they weren't really revolutionaries, of course, but only looked fiery enough to be. Interesting enough to take skiing during reading period and into Boston for the theater and drinks on the weekend. Interesting enough to argue over with their friends who had gone...