Word: bachelor
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...Chayefsky heard people mimicking the play's dialogue ("What do you feel like doin' tonight?" "I don't know. What do you feel like doin' tonight?"). The film version won the Oscar for Best Picture of 1955, and Hollywood was soon combing Philco Playhouse for other scripts: The Bachelor Party, The Catered Affair, The Rainmaker and Gore Vidal's The Death of Billy the Kid (filmed as The Left-Handed Gun) and Visit to a Small Planet...
...city gals (Hepburn, Sullavan, Jean Arthur, Rosalind Russell, Dietrich, Ginger Rogers, nearly the whole fabulous constellation of '30s star actresses) would toy with this bumpkin, only to find he had magically restored their emotional virginity. In his private life--which he kept private--Stewart was a responsible grownup, a bachelor until 1949, when he married Gloria McLean. She had two sons from a previous marriage; they had twin daughters...
...Huntington Theatre Company's production of Stephen Sondheim's "Company" evokes emotion far beyond the squeals and sobs that touring companies of "Les Miserables" manufacture eight times a week. "Company," recently revamped from its 1970 original, explores the life of Robert (Davis Gaines), a New York bachelor who contemplates his 35th birthday. Robert is soon visited by his closest friends, five married couples, who show him that maturity represents an assumption of responsibility. The birthday becomes a symbol for the affirmation of Robert's willingness to look beyond himself, to make a commitment to the company that marriage offers...
...next nine years, Gray traveled everywhere with Maharishi, eventually becoming the guru's personal assistant. Along the way he picked up a bachelor's degree and an M.A.--in the Science of Creative Intelligence--at Maharishi International University; most of the credits came from such "projects" as helping Maharishi set up his teacher-training programs. (Wonder how he earned the right to call himself "Doctor"? He earned his Ph.D. in a correspondence course in psychology and counseling offered by Columbia Pacific University in San Rafael, Calif.) He was a meditator par excellence, he recalls, and would hear angels singing...
...Extension School will confer three associate in arts (A.A.), 82 bachelor of liberal arts (A.L.B.) of which 49 will be cum laude and 67 master of liberal arts (A.L.M.) degrees, according to the office of the dean. This ceremony will take place in the Loeb Drama Center...