Word: preps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chic radicals enrolling in a five-day seminar catchily titled, Black Rage, from Little Rock to Black Panthers. Today only a handful of devotees remain, like Jeremiah Sheehy who believes that "black fiction is more relevant to my life than China." For many, then, A.C. may represent a sophisticated 'prep school' for cocktail circuits. That many adopt a faddist topic was underscored by an appalling inarticulateness among the participants of the Cinga session in expressing their interest for the subject. The vast majority of those I spoke to explained that China was important because it contained about one-third...
...smocks to wear with jeans, trySerendipity (Mt. Auburn St. near Plympton St.), Bowl and Board (1063 Mass Ave.), George's Folly (30 Brattle St.), and The Lodge. Serendipity has the largest selection. J. August and Co. (1320 Mass. Ave.) has expensive good quality wear for men, and The Prep Shop (31 Church St.) will outfit anybody who can squeeze into boys' sizes, which means just about everybody...
...story is a sort of streamlined Pilgrim's Progress shot through with vigorous satire. McDowell, a peerless young actor of apparently unlimited range, appears as Mick Travis, who when last seen was shooting up his prep school common in Anderson's //. Here again, Travis is afloat in a society that is both recognizable and out-of-joint, where business meetings can turn into blase conferences on genocide. Mick's struggle to make a success in such an unbalanced world forms the classic curriculum for his picaresque education...
...that are not particularly well-founded. The Philadelphia public school strike -- cited by some as a partial reason for the decline -- no doubt contributed to the weaker recruiting program; yet its contribution was clearly overshadowed by the 64-per-cent drop in black applications from two prestigious New England prep schools. Another factor, a large decline in the number of prospective black freshmen directed to Harvard by currently enrolled black students, is probably the most important cause of the drop in the number of blacks applying to Harvard...
...four prisoners were in their early 20s−tough, streetsmart, prison-wise. They compared jails the way Yalies compare prep schools. They shied away from pointing to specific causes for the fight. "All the tensions just came out," said Earl Moore, Pontiac head of the Disciples. Gang rivalries had been going on for some time. According to the leaders, each organization had preserved some form of identification−either a private greeting that members gave each other or special berets or insignia they were permitted to wear. Fights that normally would have remained disputes between two individuals exploded into confrontations...