Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Former Deputy Premier Stephan Stephanopoulos, a 66-year-old bachelor, had turned the trick when he swore in as members of his new "coalition" Cabinet loannis Glavanis and Isador Mavri-doglou, two of the latest defectors from Papandreou's onetime majority party, the Center Union. They brought Stephanopoulos' total support in the 300-man Parliament to a slender majority ,pl 152. Before and during the noisy debate that led up to the final vote, Papandreou's men in Parliament were reduced to chanting insults and spreading the rumor that one of the defectors had died...
...plot is an updated modification of My Fair Lady. For a flower girl Lerner substitutes a girl who grows flowers. While Doolittle went to a bachelor linguist to have her accent repaired, Daisy Gamble goes to a bachelor psychiatrist to cure her "hallucinations." Daisy suffers from extrasensory perception (ESP), which means that she answers telephones before they have a chance to ring. An imaginative situation for a musical to be sure, but so far we are still in New York City, and everyone knows an Alan Lerner show must somehow trudge back to historical England...
...Lordship, Mr. Justice Lane, is also entitled by ancient judicial tradition to a bachelor knighthood. For women, the corresponding title that goes with the honor is Dame, but if diehards have their way, the new justice may be deprived even of that feminine distinction and wind up as Sir Elizabeth Lane...
Bond & Bonnard. By far the most spectacular space within the building is the penthouse where the bachelor baron, as head of the house of Lambert, lives alone. Broad reception halls and dining rooms convert from business luncheons at noon to formal dinners at night. Strolling through suites studded with Giacometti's lean bronzes, through rooms where Picassos and Mirós alter nate with Bonnards and Rouaults into his big library, the baron likes to wink roguishly as he touches a hidden button that causes the book-lined wall to swing back, revealing a glass-sheathed bedroom with...
Illinois-born Bill Tabler learned his architecture at Harvard. He telescoped nine years of study into seven by taking extra classes, earned a bachelor's degree in engineering at Harvard College ('36), then added a master's in architecture at Harvard's Graduate School of Design ('39). Squeezing the most out of his time, he sleeps about one night a week on planes while traveling 300,000 miles a year. Even office parties do double duty: before the annual banquet for his 50-man staff and their wives-at a Tabler-designed hotel-there...