Word: preps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lacrosse v. Naval Academy Prep School...
...authors dream of writing a perennial: a book that not only sells well for a season but continues to sprout on bedside tables and school reading lists for years afterward. John Knowles, 54, did just that with his first novel, A Separate Peace (1960). Its story of prep school rivalry and love, set in the early 1940s against a distant but beckoning war, seemed to many a near perfect distillation of adolescence, a nostalgic memoir about an end to innocence and an athlete dying young...
Dressed as one might expect to find her--in a prep-plaid shirt, green sweater, blue blazer, penny loafers, and Nantucket accessories--Lisa Birnbach, editor and coauthor of "The Official Preppy Handbook" came to the Coop yesterday to sign copies of her book...
...passages from Mary Mebane's book Mary [March 2] brought back memories of similar encounters in my own life. In 1938 the principal of my high school summoned my mother to his office, because I insisted on taking a college-prep curriculum instead of a general course, so that I could become an airline pilot. The principal said to her: "There is no reason for Henry to take such a course, because there will be no black pilots...
Fortunately, the Peddie School, where Mule prepped, did arrange for coaching three afternoons a week. In return, the school's lone diver dominated the prep school ranks with three New Jersey State Championships, two Eastern. Interscholastic titles and three All-America nominations...