Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reporter Karafin watched out for the interests of the small guy as well as the big. Once, when a lonely, 51-year-old bachelor crippled with arthritis sued a dance studio for inveigling him into paying for 1,000 hours of lessons, Karafin wrote an incisive story about the case. Then Karafin called on the head of the company that owned the studio. Thereafter, Karafin wrote no more dance studio stories. A lawyer friend of Karafin's worked out a settlement by which the company repaid the bachelor a fraction of the money he had been charged. Karafin...
Since he joined the faculty of the City University of New York last year, Schlesinger, 49, has led the hectic life of a much-sought-after bachelor-he is separated, at least geographically, from his wife Marian, who still lives in Washington. His jaunty bow tie has been seen at Arthur-a discothèque that might well have been named for him -and his every date and dictum seem to end up in the gossip columns...
What Students Want. The goal of the New School, says President John Everett, is to "educate adults." The university did not set up undergraduate credit courses until 1944, still has no plans to admit freshmen and sophomores. Currently, its only bachelor-degree candidates are enrolled in the experimental New School College, which offers a two-year program in the humanities and social sciences. The students get no grades, pursue no major, but receive plenty of individual attention, and pass or fail on the basis of interdisciplinary final exams. New School Dean Allen Austill selected the college's seven...
Ingenuous Fountain. Having failed at the law, Flaubert immersed himself in an anchorite's life. He remained a resolute bachelor. Except for his novels-Novembre, L'Education Sentimentale, Madame Bovary, Salammbo-he scarcely existed at all. His books became his life, and he built them almost entirely from the impressions so passionately and imperfectly recorded in his diary...
...course, the bachelor unexpectedly shows up during the blackout, and one of the flit-and-run sight gags of the evening is Crawford's desperately adroit and maladroit effort to sneak the antiques back to the rightful owner's flat. By the time that Crawford's mistress (Geraldine Page) makes her unseen appearance, it is clear that British Playwright Shaffer has skimmed the most risibility from invisibility since the old Topper films...