Word: schoolboys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Celestial Robes. Lowell came early to his vocation. He was a fifth-form schoolboy at St. Marks, the prestigious Episcopal prep school in Southborough, Mass., when he received his calling. Awkward, myopic, shy, dull in class except in history, he shambled about the sham Tudor buildings. His friends called him "Cal," after Caligula, because he was so uncouth; he liked that, and today is still known as Cal. His nature became clear to classmates after he started reading commentaries on the Iliad and Dante's Inferno. As his roommate, Artist Frank Parker, recalls: "The point was that you could...
Once again this weekend Harvard will have to do without spunky second base man Nelly Houston. The former Rhode Island Schoolboy star had his nose broken by a Tufts pitch: he will be replaced by Dick Manchester...
Perhaps the best example of the new "hungry" look on the Harvard team is senior second baseman Nelly Houston. The former Rhode Island schoolboy star has played regularly for two years, but last summer on Cape Cod broke his leg in six places on a blown double play...
...short novel described the torture methods of the secret police and another gave an insider's look at the bolshe vita of Communist fat cats in the early 1950s. There is also a Hungarian version of Catcher in the Rye, in which the author, a 17-year-old schoolboy, admits in disgust: "I can't stand it that the Americans announce the launching of a rocket a month before and the Russians only when it's in orbit...
Less Blood, Much Bumf. "Awfully chic to be killed," remarks one of them, Charles Stringham. In the first novel, Stringham was an elegant, clever schoolboy at Eton. Now, after walk-on parts in later books as a sophisticated, droll, despairing alcoholic, he appears as a wry, dry, still witty private working as a waiter in an officers' mess at a divisional headquarters in Northern Ireland. Here, as in other scenes, the denizens of Powell's world-upper-class intelligentsia with outposts in the City, the aristocracy and in the upper bohemia of the theater, journalism, painting and music...