Word: school
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prison term that began in 1895, later became a director of the Soviet Union's first Five-Year Plan, was eulogized in 1957 by the Current Digest of the Soviet Press as "one of the founders of the State Commission for Electrification of Russia . . . founder of the scientific school of Soviet power engineering, a dreamer and poet...
...years that Unterberg, Towbin has won star billing. Manhattan-born Dutch Unterberg, 57, studied banking in Europe, started a one-man, over-the-counter firm in 1932, after the brokerage firm he was with dissolved. Brooklyn-born Partner Towbin, 48, went to Johns Hopkins University and the Harvard Business School, got a job with Unterberg at $11 a week...
Taste of Sorrow. Author Simon's harsh, hard-blowing prose suggests, in the oblique way of poetry, the wind he writes of. A member of France's school of New Realists (TIME. Aug. 4; Oct. 13), he sprawls 1,000-word sentences, nested with concentric sets of parenthetical statements and restatements, across four-page expanses of type. The flow of words, like the wind, halts for a moment, then rushes on, engulfing a stabbing or a casual conversation with the same intensity. Simon rewrites without editing (a mouth is "closed again immediately afterwards, or rather pursed again...
This gloomy Victorian coastal mansion is run by a bland sharper who calls himself Dr. Chesterfield. An educational quack, Chesterfield prates of clean minds and bodies but has sold four of the school's five bathtubs. Boating and riding are advertised in the school brochure. But the boat is a suicidally leaky scow, and riding is discontinued when the resident donkey drops dead and is carved to vary the diet of congealed herring and paste porridge...
...Sunnylands Grange Select Summer School for Boys" is a moth-Eton travesty of an English public school. Its playing fields of welfare-state spivs supply most of the antic humor to be found in this uneven first novel. Oliver Ventnor, the book's mock-hero, is sent down from Oxford for forging his uncle's name to a check. Stony-broke and stonily rebuked by his pastor father, Oliver signs on as a teaching "captain" at Sunnylands Grange...