Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very first days of school. "With more and more guys graduating from college," says Columbia Senior Peter Earth, "you're no longer looked up to if you went to college. You're just looked down upon if you didn't get a degree." But a simple bachelor's degree is not really enough. At Harvard, where only one in 100 students now qualifies for the once accepted gentleman's average of C, seven out of ten intend to go on to graduate school-a process that a previous generation might have condemned as going from...
...represent all governments, all men. Nobody has clean hands. Ophelia is usually presented on the stage as a convent-type sweetie who has a nervous breakdown; in fact she is just "a disreputable young woman," a docile pawn in her father's plot to match her with Eligible Bachelor Hamlet. "No line in the play suggests that she felt either passion or affection for him." Even the ghost of Hamlet's father is tainted, as Author West sees it: he is the voice of the past, of tradition-and man's past is no cleaner than...
Radcliffe and the Massachusetts General Hospital have offered since 1946 a coordinated program of nursing and liberal arts which terminates in a bachelor of arts and a diploma in nursing after five years of study. After graduation from Radcliffe, the student receives special instruction for two years at the Massachusetts General School of Nursing...
...bachelor, Conway found London club life very pleasant, and almost indispensible. He enjoyed the warm atmosphere at meals, and made regular use of the club libraries. "England is a world of institution," he says, "and a bachelor always has his clubs...
...thinly disguised novel about Boston's raffish former Mayor Curley-intends Benjy as a "ferocious fairy tale." But readers can settle back unappre-hensively and enjoy this blithe-spirited, Thurberesque fable of a little boy who is too good for his own good. Along the way, longtime Bachelor O'Connor, 39, gets in some Wylie digs at Mummy. Though the fun sometimes wears thin, Benjy is a striking display of virtuosity, proving that its author can move with literary ease from Curley to curb/locks...