Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...predicts the swing to field work will continue and that the Bachelor of Divinity will be revised to include more of it. He expects that eventually Catholics studying for the priesthood will receive some instruction in a non-denominational divinity school like Harvard's. "I don't think we will be training priests here for a while," he says, "But I think that the Church is leaning in the direction of a broader education...
This boy -meets -girl -in -Manhattan romp proves conclusively that New York is a summer festival where the bluebird of happiness has solved such problems as air pollution. Sandra, clad in Jean Louis dresses, plays an actress and part-time cleaning woman who disinfects Bobby's bachelor flat every day, never dreaming that he is the same young man she bumps into all around town. Nor does he suspect the identity of his sweepheart. Bobby is a rakehell who keeps a card file of his conquests with horse-racy annotations ("Slow starter but good in the stretch"). His flat...
...works in what seems to be everyday London, its streets, its parks and warehouses, and he lives alone in a sloppy bachelor apartment. He shops with the masses in a supermarket, and he worries about the raise he's expecting. In this realistic setting, author Len Deighton places his fantastic jewel of a plot, and then polishes it with humor, blood, sex, and a little more bureaucratic realism...
...only thing that the trim, 155-lb. bachelor enjoys more than his job is his bayside home in East Hampton, L.I. There, decked out in an ankle-length apron, he putters happily around his professionally equipped kitchen. A precise and sparing eater himself, Claiborne hates and rarely uses marzipan, marshmallows or iceberg lettuce, serves rigidly small portions to a constant stream of guests who range from curious neighbors to the giants of the profession...
Paree & the Black Books. Thanks to his friends, Hornung's whole life has been one long weekend, and "every day is Derby Day." While he was still a junior at Notre Dame, a "bachelor millionaire" named Abe Samuels introduced Paul to the chorus line at Chicago's Chez Paree. After he turned pro, a pinball-machine operator named Barney Shapiro staked him to a Las Vegas trip and handled his weekly bets (up to $300) on pro football games. When Paul was suspended in 1963 for gambling, Governor Endicott Peabody of Massachusetts made a speech in his behalf...