Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with an undeviating honesty that some playgoers will find acrid. The five couples involved in Company are in their 30s and 40s, too young for resignation and too old to swing, except self-consciously. All the couples play show-and-tell before their favorite friend Robert (Dean Jones), a bachelor of 35. Some of the dilemmas they act out for Robert are common: a drink problem, smoking too much, trying to lose weight-except that New Yorkers have an uncanny flair for self-dramatizing such issues. Some are symbolic: the wife who can karate-chop hell out of her husband...
...JOHN L. SWIGERT JR., 38, command-module pilot, has very little in common with the man he replaced beyond the fact that both are bachelors. Ken Mattingly is serious and studious. Swigert is a not-so-secret swinger with the reputation of having a girl in every (air) port. Swigert's favorite ploy, his friends say, is to invite girls to his apartment to see what he claims are his moon rocks. For all his bachelor antics, however, Swigert is a highly skilled former Air Force flyer and civilian test pilot with degrees in mechanical engineering, aerospace science...
When Pierre Trudeau succeeded Lester Pearson as Prime Minister of Canada nearly two years ago, he seemed just the man to lead his divided nation into a new age. He was a brilliant teacher of law, a respected liberal reformer, a trendy bachelor. Even in the U.S., which usually pays little more attention to Canadian politics than to the Albanian economy, Trudeau's Gallic glamour had its effect, possibly because Americans had such lackluster candidates of their...
Five years ago, the FBI fired a bachelor clerk named Thomas Carter for admittedly sharing his bed with a girl he had known and dated for years. (He denied having had intercourse with her) The bureau's interest was triggered by an anonymous letter reporting that the 25-year-old Carter was "sleeping with young girls and carrying on." The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia later ruled that Carter was entitled to a trial to determine whether his conduct was cause for discharge Chiding the Government for invoking the standard of the lady from Dubuque...
...quite as bad as that, except when Pluche, a 45-year-old Parisian bachelor, is in a period of creative sterility. For a man of Gibraltic self-confidence, however, even sterility has its uses. If Pluche must lie fallow for a few weeks, he can at least write a journal about it. Nothing goes to waste: stinginess is not only close to his Gallic heart; it is a law of nature. Besides, writing gives him the chance to expound on his dearest personal fancies...