The highly educated daughter of a classics master, she entered the Berlin Hochschule für Musik in 1934, studying at first with Lula Mysz-Gmeiner, a celebrated lieder interpreter.
And at secondary school (Bryanston in Dorset), he had a play written especially for him by a classics master, A Risky Business in which he played, at 17, a headmaster.
The difference is that Rattigan sees them from the vantage-point of a classics master, Andrew Crocker-Harris, who on the eve of his retirement learns that he was secretly known as the Himmler of the Lower Fifth and that he faces a pensionless future with his vindictive but equally lonely wife.
The Michigan-born Mayweather, full of bling and braggadocio, is the ring's classic master craftsman, stylishly elusive and defensive, unconquered in 47 bouts through four weight classes stretching back to 1996.
As for those revelatory photographers, the first, August Kotzsch, was a 19th-century German landscapist written out of most standard history books because his views of overgrown cellars, shrubs, trees and rocky patches of parkland — places out of time and hard to pinpoint — didn't serve the classic master narrative of art history.
Even though he's the '90s-era veteran, he swears Casanova is the classic master.
At Ealing School he came under the influence of a Calvinist classics master, but his spiritual awakening seems to have been driven more by the financial collapse of his father's bank in 1816.
Everybody knows Benjamin Franklin was a total G. Dude was a classic polymath, mastering tons of shit from languages and writing to diplomacy, chess, music, and even oceanography.
(In it she regales readers with what she calls a "deranged assignment" to make every recipe in Julia Child's classic "Mastering the Art of French Cooking". ) Some sites where women are raising their voices do reflect traditional roles.
But in a miraculous transformation, Julia Child would, over the next 15 years, become an authority on French cuisine, the principal author of the classic "Mastering the Art of French Cooking," and, on returning to the United States, the much loved star of the long-running cooking show "The French Chef".
