Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bachelor Paul, 25 (his favorite "bird" is 21-year-old Actress Jane Asher), is a movie addict, loves "the look of London," tools around town in a spiffy blue Aston Martin DB 5. He lives in a high-walled house in the city's prosperous St. John's Wood neighborhood -oddly furnished, for a Beatle, in a tastefully quaint style, including an old-fashioned lace tablecloth on the dining-room table-and has daily bouts of "bashing" at the piano, which he has never quite learned to play...
...appealed to by makers of Great Books and good booze (which he may never read or drink), praised by haberdashers and hairdressers for his swinging singularity (which he earnestly aspires to), and pursued by indefatigably seductive girls. Once a docile follower of the style of his elders, the new bachelor finds himself the mold of fashion, with his mating plumage studied and envied by beaten-down husbands who, in comparison, begin to feel as tired and scruffy as a suburban lawn in a dry summer. The late John F. Kennedy, himself a swinging bachelor until 36, neatly framed both...
...business careers, singlehood has its liabilities. As Vance Packard reports in The Pyramid Climbers: "In general the bachelor is viewed with circumspection, especially if he is not well known to the people appraising him." If he is still in his 20s, the personnel manager worries whether he is too busy with his love life to devote full attention to his job. "The worst status of all is that of a bachelor beyond the age of 36. The investigators wonder why he isn't married. Is it because he isn't virile? Is he old-maidish...
...bourgeois manager never did swing with the zesty, remarkably creative Beatles. A slightly dandified bachelor, he kept pretty much to himself; he said recently that he had made five LSD trips in one 14-month period. Asked once what he feared most in life, he replied: "Loneliness. I hope I'll never be lonely, although actually, one inflicts loneliness on oneself...
...major interest. At 3 a.m., he says, "I tell everybody to go home and then I start unwinding, singing personal things for maybe 50 or 60 friends. When the sun comes up, I go home." Not always, of course, to his wife and six kids; he also keeps a bachelor's pad for further unwinding...