Word: mastering
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...story tells it, taking an occasional liberty with the facts, Moliére was born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin. His father was a master upholsterer and a minor functionary of the court, whose duty it was to prepare the king's bed three months of the year. He intended that his son would turn down the royal sheets after he had gone, but the young man decided to become a lawyer and went to Orléans for training. He eventually concluded that all lawyers are frauds and decided to become a legitimate fraud, which is to say an actor...
Look at the Harlequins! by Vladimir Nabokov: the master's valedictory novel, with his customary flourishes and optical allusions...
...Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever: elegies by a master of the short form...
Several missing letters written by Robert F. Kennedy '48 found last June in Winthrop House have been turned over to the University archives, House Master James A. Davis said yesterday...