Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...list of Cambridge University graduates, sandwiched between Vaux, J.E.G., and Walker, J.N.G.: Wales, H.R.H. Prince of -the first heir to the British crown ever to earn a university degree. No one seemed one whit prouder than Lord Butler, master of Trinity College, where the royal scholar won a bachelor's degree with honors in history. "We think it was rather remarkable that he could get a good degree," said Lord Butler, "considering all his other duties...
...some hospital footage as brutal as any in MASH, he is again deliberately trying to stir his audience. In one vignette, a curmudgeonly lady remarks that upon her death, she wants her 35 dogs "quietly put to sleep." Unfortunately, one of the film's strongest scenes, depicting two bachelor roommates breakfasting with their pet monkey, has been edited...
...more uptight since he became his party's leader. He doesn't want to get indebted to anyone." One ranking Tory notes that he has never been invited to dine privately with Heath or even to have a drink with him. When friends have pointed out that being a bachelor could impede his political career, Heath has re plied: "A man who got married in order to be a better Prime Minister would be neither a good Prime Minister nor a good husband...
Things are especially hard for many in the humanities, trained solely for teaching. Scientists, who could once fall back on industrial jobs, now face fewer prospects. Tight money has forced companies that once hired Ph.D.s to make do with lesser-but less expensive-master's and bachelor's degrees. And women, who earn 12% of the nation's doctorates but land far fewer of its best teaching jobs, may find the going even tougher...
...Ph.D.s in physics each year. To some extent, overproduction is inevitable. The postwar "baby boom" that helped send college enrollments soaring in the middle '60s is now working its way through the graduate schools. Much of the glut can also be blamed on the academic pecking order. As bachelor's and master's degrees became more common, academics insisted that doctorates were essential for college teaching, and as degree inflation mounted, dozens of small colleges yearned to become "universities" by taking on expensive graduate programs. The war in Viet Nam also sustained weak graduate schools, since graduate...