Word: preps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...form consisted of a series of columns, each representing a different prep school. At the left side of the form were Exeter and Andover. The column on the far right side of the sheet was an "x," which signified whetheror not the prospective was Jewish, Galbraith said...
...second and featured play, refers to San Salvador's "Pink Zone," an enclave of cafes and boutiques. Ansara dramatizes the chance meeting of three schoolmates at one of these cafes. Bobby, Yolanda, and Rey are the only surviving members of the Class of '79 at a city prep school. Not a bad premise, but so many secrets and contradictions are breathlessly revealed that the audience can only turn numb...
...finally landed a job as a prep-school English instructor at Hampden, Me. At night Tabitha put on her hot-pink uniform and went to work at Dunkin' Donuts. When she exited, King turned to the typewriter which was perched on a child's desk. As an adolescent, he had read Richard Matheson's The Shrinking Man and other works that were adapted for The Twilight Zone. "The same year," he recalls, "I read Peyton Place and Kings Row. I understood instinctively that both authors were talking about the small-town caste society that I grew up in, the veil...
During that week, Harvard offers orientations to various minorites it thinks will have difficulty adapting to the environment. But the University forgets about the one that could really use that service--the shy kid from the sheltered glades of suburbia who lacks the family or prep school connections for a showing of the ropes. Without it, Freshman Week is a blizzard of stammered conversations and embarrassed silences, a cocktail party scripted by Samuel Beckett...
...Come to Harvard and meet students from foreign countries, Northeastern prep schools and Midwest public schools" say the admissions officers. "Meet students who never attended school at all, but learned in their own homes...