Word: preps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HEINZ Kissinger was born in the small village of Fuerth, in Franconia, on May 27, 1923. His father was a professor at the gymnasium, or prep school, in Fuerth; his Jewish upbringing was marked by an early respect for scholarship. But by 1930, the Nazis had seized power in Franconia, and after eight years of social torture and humiliation, the Kissinger family was forced to abandon its home and migrate to America...
...Princeton you've got to swallow everything the first year. It's like a damned prep school. " Amory agreed. " Lot of pep, though, " he insisted. " I wouldn't have gone to Yale for a million. " -"This Side of Paradise...
Columbia feels that Princeton is entirely filled with prep-school snobs. Princeton thinks that Harvard is a haven for latent homosexuals. Brown believes that Harvard is entirely too close to Providence for any good relations to exist...
...item entitled "Goheen Goes" [April 5] said that Princeton has cut the number of prep school graduates to 70% of the freshman class. For the record, the public school graduates made up about 50% when Mr. Goheen became president nearly 14 years ago, and this year were 70% of the freshman class...
Novelist Buechner (A Long Day's Dying) was ordained a Presbyterian minister and served for a time as chaplain of a boys' prep school. It may be that this professionalism allows him his easy way with the rigors of belief. Without satire or solemnity, he describes Bebb's religion-a life force as sleazy as its peddler. Bebb is, among other things, a sexual exhibitionist, and there is a memorable scene at the altar of his cinderblock church in which he restores potency to an oil-rich old Indian by raising up his own loins in thanksgiving...