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Word: mastering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Heimert has already read the morning CRIMSON ("always save the ones with my pictures in them"), and is explaining James Q. Wilson to a clutch of cautiously admiring clubbies. The clubbies like to keep abreast of developments as long as it doesn't involve reading. They keep the Master primed (if priming be needed) with frequently inserted "aouh yes's" and "I know's" of about twelve syllables each. The clubbies like to eat toast for breakfast because it's such fun to pronounce...

Author: By Mike Kinsley, | Title: Moving Day Goodbye, Eliot House | 2/4/1970 | See Source »

Like all decent/indecent Restoration comedies, the play cuts to the chase, the chaste and the unchaste. The masquerading Master Aimwell (Ronald Pickup) pursues Dorinda (Sheila Reid) with lofty ardor. They are a fluttery pair, brimming with sentiment and much given to pledges of undying affection and confessional honesty. The masquerading servant, Archer (Robert Stephens), has the cool, calculating charm of an accomplished womanizer. The woman he now wants, Mrs. Sullen (Maggie Smith), has had but one melancholy tutor: her husband. He is an alcoholic brute who keeps her in the country when her only heaven is London. As the chase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Were Man but Wise | 2/2/1970 | See Source »

William Liller, Master of Adams House, also announced that Adams willhave interhouse for Radcliffe students (of both sexes) on Mondays and Thursdays - making it the first - house interhouse for lunch...

Author: By Deborah B. Johnson, | Title: Cliffies Move to Houses | 2/2/1970 | See Source »

Students living in Mather House face irksome problems and genuine indignities as they continue to pile into what Alwin M. Pappenheimer, Master of Dunster House, once called "that apartment house next door...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mather Opens | 2/2/1970 | See Source »

William Liller, Master of Adams House, also announced that Adams willhave interhouse for Radcliffe students (of both sexes) on Mondays and Thursdays - making it the first - house interhouse for lunch...

Author: By Deborah B. Johnson, | Title: The Times They Are A Changing' Cliffies Move to Houses | 2/2/1970 | See Source »

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