Word: putney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Addiss and Crofut, former classmates at Vermont's Putney prep school, teamed up in 1960 and spent one entire year on a State Department tour of Africa and the Far East "getting to the little villages where the big orchestras and ballet companies can't go." Surviving "the unspeakable pangs of dysentery," they traveled by Jeep, elephant, water buffalo, dugout canoe and bamboo raft, performed before a collective audience of half a million persons and collected hundreds of native songs and instruments...
...rule, boys from large, traditional preparatory schools, of the Exeter-Andover variety are rarely subject to this malaise. (Nor often, for that matter, to other unsettling yearning of the heart.) The complex finds its most severe expression in what may be termed The Putney Syndrome. The P.S. occurs in boys from relatively progressive, coeducational boarding schools with pastoral settings. These settings are rapidly fancified into veritable idylls...
...Putney-type graduate may often surround himself with high school friends (ideally, with a high school girl-friend), go back frequently, and with the slighest excuse, to his old school, and return to Harvard despondent, recalling his pleasant visit, the warmth of his welcome (he forgets the role his present Harvard status plays here) and looking forward to his next trip. He dresses quite as he did for the hayride back then...
...opposing attitudes illustrate two different conceptions of the senior year's function, Mrs. Stimpson noted. The Putney School told Mrs. Stimpson that it is "pleased to stop the program." Putney, and several other private schools, have found that "early notification of acceptance makes the senior year less meaningful to students," she said...
...Aiken was talking about all modest business proprietors, had no particular Mrs. Murphy in mind. Indeed, near his own home town of Putney, the rooming-house operator most closely meeting his definition is a Mrs. Carl Underwood, 78, whose $5-a-night place can lodge 18 at a time. * Last August, however, cloture was invoked against a handful of liberal Democratic Senators filibustering against an Administration bill to establish a communications satellite corporation owned partly by private interests...