Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the whales were trying to tell us something. To those who have read the remarkable novel The Day of the Dolphin, the event had a haunting ring. In that book, Novelist Robert Merle fantasizes an unsettling interview between a reporter and Bi, one of the first dolphins to master English...
...handsome white colonial house surrounded by magnolia trees. The living room is decorated with African masks and figures, Haitian paintings and other souvenirs of family travels to Africa, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and even Sweden. Laura Holland is a good match for a college president. She has a master's in psychology from Radcliffe and two years toward a Ph.D. at Harvard and Boston University. The Hollands have two children-Lucy, 14, and Joseph...
...disaster, but it's a mess," said Alan Heimert '49, Master of Eliot House. "First this cold weather brings women into breakfast at the dining hall, now it blows up steam pipes...
...master has made such points in films from Foreign Correspondent to Torn Curtain. But at 70, Hitchcock seems suddenly to have forgotten his own recipe. Topaz contains no chills, no fever-and most disappointing, no entertainment. By the finale, the predictability of every turn and the grossness of the heroes and villains recall the old gag about the espionage agent who whispered a code message to a locked door. "Wrong apartment," came the reply. "I'm Ginsberg the tailor. You want Ginsberg the spy, upstairs...
...Pritchett, one of the best of British critics, is also the master of a less fashionable art, the short story. His tales are old-fashioned in the way that a box-Brownie snapshot of a posed family group seems to belong to some other time; they have much the same kind of truth and absurd dignity. Samples: ∙BLIND LOVE. A short novel, really. Blind London banker has secretary-companion with birth mark that spreads a liver stain from below a high blouse-collar over one breast. Her husband left her after one night. Banker has house with swimming pool...