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...Kent School began its first term in a run-down farmhouse on the banks of the Housatonic. On the first night, the cook fell ill and the houseboy sprained his ankle. The 18 students and three-man faculty had to pitch in to clean away what was left of the debris of generations of indifferent housekeeping. Pater managed the kitchen. Thus began the self-help system that continued even as the school prospered...
...chats, Forster roams freely from Beethoven's Symphony No. g and Eliot's Cocktail Party to a laughing description of how a South African houseboy once dumped a juicy platter of chicken in his lap. While demonstrating the range of his mind, he also files a minority report on the direction in which he thinks civilization is moving. Skeptical, urbane, relativistic, Two Cheers for Democracy is the report of a man who prefers to stand in the cool draft of a perpetually open mind. In an age of anxiety, he implies, more & more men are nibbling...
...Walking Colonial Institute." The. road to greatness has been a steep one for the greying, 46-year-old man whose grandmother was born in slavery. Orphaned at 14, he worked during his high-school years first as a houseboy, then as a "pig boy," moving type metal in the composing rooms of the Los Angeles Times. When his grandmother, with whom he lived, became worried by ominous tales of "printer's consumption," Bunche left the Times for a job laying carpets...
When the Turners were near the breaking point, a new houseboy, Moses, came on the scene. He was a Zulu. Across the rigidly drawn race barrier, Mary Turner could see that he was everything her husband wasn't. Moses had integrity, stubborn endurance and physical magnificence. In self-defense, she took to nagging him for minor mistakes. Mary was trying to build up a sense of his inferiority in her own mind and his. It didn't work out that way. The story reaches its logical and violent conclusion with Dick Turner gone mad, Mary Turner lying murdered...
...Magnus Uju '53 came all the way from Nigeria to Harvard to study drama, left before a term was out and is now appearing as Ali, a houseboy, in the Rodgers and Hammerstein production, "Heart of the Matter," at the Wilbur Theatre...