Word: preps
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This was still the time of the gentleman's C at Harvard among certain of the prep school graduates and the "clubbies," who treated "greasy grinds" who got A's with contempt and looked upon Radcliffe women as "bluestockings" to be avoided at all costs. Some of us, too, were rather hierarchical and snobbish in our judgment of our classmates. Concentrators in the sciences were thought to be rather "wet," and taking a laboratory course was something to be avoided, because it meant long hours of work in the late afternoon and a freezing walk back home...
...Baseball v. Naval Academy Prep, 3 p.m., Soldiers Field...
Huck Finn and Holden Caulfield turned a perceptive innocence against a world that was out to steal their childhoods. But it has long been assumed that they used up the territories of the rural backwater and the prep school. Padgett Powell's twelve-year-old Simons Manigault is proof that they did not. He is in fact one of the most engaging fictional small fry ever to cry thief: sly, pungent, lyric, funny, and unlikely to be forgotten when literary-prize committees gather later in the year. Edisto (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 183 pages; $11.95) is an impressive first novel...
...with Berry, his wife Mary (played competently but blandly by Lisa Banes) and their five children. The family lives in a rambling old New England house in the middle of nowhere with their grandfather Iowa Bob (Wilford Brimley). Berry and his father Iowa Bob both work at the nearby prep school. The Dairy School, where the three older children. Frank (Paul McCrane), Franny (Jodie Foster) and John (Rob Lowe), the narrator of the story, receive their dubious education...
...Vienna where he and the children and his old friend confusingly named Freud start the second Hotel New Hampshire Permanent guests in this home lodge include terrorists, one of whom, Miss Carriage, played by Amanda Plummer, has a very peculiar accent, another who bears a suspicious resemblance to the prep school youth who raped Fanny, Susie the bear--Kinski dressed in a potbelly bear suit (why the sultry Kinski hides in such a suit is never satisfactorily explained), and a pack of German whores...