Word: prescotts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Allston Burr Lecture Hall, the modern, grey-brick edifice on Prescott Street, is suffering from the heat. The South face of the lecture hall has sustained two major expansion cracks caused by materials which contract during the winter and expand during the summer...
...Rector of Justin, Auchincloss' best novel, neutrality worked as a novelistic technique. There, numerous witnesses to the life of Headmaster Frank Prescott assembled a fascinating portrait of a man whose substance did not have to be judged to beguile. But it does not work in The Embezzler, partly because these are not very interesting people, mainly because Auchincloss' total detachment invites the same reaction from the reader. If the book makes any point, it is even more familiar than Auchincloss' gilt-edged landscapes are by now: that the only difference between rich people and poor people...
...TEXAS RANGERS, by Walter Prescott Webb. A century of legalized carnage is described with scholarly precision and boyish glee in this definitive history-re-published for the first time since 1935-of a rootin', tootin', shootin', lootin' and generally low-falutin' organization that enforced the law and other unpopular prejudices during the winning of the Southwest...
...TEXAS RANGERS, by Walter Prescott Webb. A century of legalized carnage is described with scholarly precision and boyish glee in this definitive history-republished for the first time since 1935-of a rootin', tootin', shootin', lootin' and generally low-falutin' organization that enforced the law and other unpopular prejudices during the wild and woolly winning of the Southwest...
...after facing arrows, guns, and knives for one complete century of incredible carnage, were abolished in 1935. But they survive in song and story, cinema and television as strong silent lawmen who all look like Gary Cooper or Lyndon B. Johnson. They are more factually commemorated by Historian Walter Prescott Webb (The Great Frontier) in this famous volume, republished now (with a foreword by President Johnson) for the first time since 1935. But the facts, though they strongly suggest that the Rangers did not always keep their honor high and clear, nevertheless indicate that the organization at worst...