Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jerry Brown hardly resembles his bluff, amiable father. The son is a bachelor, cool and withdrawn, who was once a Jesuit seminarian. In one of his rare flashes of humor, Brown cracked that his Jesuit schooling had given him unique qualifications for office: "Who else in the race has had eight years of Latin and four of Greek...
...born in Liu Ho, China, and studied at the Central University of Nanking, receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in 1936. The same year, she came to the United States to do graduate work at the University of California under Ernest O. Laurence, who won the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of the cyclotron...
...present there are a number of mechanisms by which older people with unorthodox academic preparation can study here. Through the Special Students program, a limited number of people, most of whom already have a bachelor's degree, are admitted. Such students are accepted because of some extraordinary type of preparation, or of some circumstances in their personal life. For instance, a former Air Force pilot who was held prisoner in a North Vietnameses POW camp in Hanoi was granted permission to study sociology in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. But the Special Students program is small...
Reality, for Bachelor Hamlisch, is hardly a flamboyant lifestyle. He attends a Conservative synagogue every Friday night, neither smokes nor drinks, and watches his diet carefully-the result of a bleeding ulcer a few years ago. His biggest indulgence is a video tape recorder attached to his television set, on which he replays cassettes of his appearances on talk shows. He even had some dental work done after deciding that one of his front teeth was not photogenic...
...result is an incoming class whose average age is 26. Many people come to Northeastern only after becoming discouraged with the work a bachelor's degree makes available to them. The experience of a 1972 Haverford graduate is typical. After leaving college he went to California to live for a year. "I'd studied German in college, and I went to look for a job as a translator, but there was nothing," he says. "I tried selling encyclopedias, but that lasted only a week. Meanwhile, my expectations sank lower and lower. Then I got involved in two types of contradictory...