Word: preps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sunny's Halo crossed the wire at Churchill Downs last week and won the Kentucky Derby, that was the finish line of the race, but the opening line of the story, the continuing line of a dream. In the weeks before the 109th Derby, when seemingly no two prep races could settle on one three-year-old standout, Sunny's Halo and the rest of his generation were belittled as mediocre. Now he and Desert Wine, who gamely finished second, and maybe even Marfa, who politely came in fifth, will have something to say about that...
When he visits Scaduto at home, Savage is fascinated by the revolting behavior of the Scaduto's sons, who attend a "really fine" English prep school and have picked up from their snobbish schoolmates' upper-class English accents, frantic status competition and bigoted attitudes. Savage listens to the conversation of the children...
Jones began running track almost as an afterthought. When he didn't make the varsity tennis squad his last spring at Northfield-Mount Hermon prep school, the Kansas City. Kansas native decided to follow in the footsteps of his brother Herman, a Mount Hermon track star, and give running a try. As was to be the case throughout his track career, he was an immediate success, winning the New England prep school association 100-and 200-meter championships...
...lacrosse vs. Naval Academy Prep School, Soldiers Field...
...avid player of charades and spinner of tales, young "Peter" (as he was called by everyone in the family for reasons even he has forgotten) turned instinctively to using home life as the basis for satire. At prep school, he won a prize for a story about his family, called Buffalo Meat. After graduating from Williams College and touring South America and Asia in "a stint as a wild man in the Navy," Gurney went to the Yale School of Drama. "My whole family came there in trepidation to see my play Love in Buffalo, and left in relief that...