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...basic idea, maladapted from Schnitzler's The Affairs of Anatol, was far from flat. The Gay Life hints at what it might have been, a reverse My Fair Lady. Where Henry Higgins is a confirmed bachelor, Anatol von Huber (Walter Chiari) is a confirmed boulevardier. It is hard to get either hero to the altar, but for opposing reasons: Higgins rejects women, Anatol collects them. My Fair Lady turns a guttersnippet into a duchess; The Gay Life turns a wealthy, well-bred girl (Barbara Cook) into a beddable wench who will fight like a fishwife for her male. Unfortunately...
...genius for letter writing aside, the son was a familiar type of cultivated societies-the fussy, dilettantish, delicately feline bachelor, a connoisseur of wit and, even more, of social oddities and human blemishes. Horace carefully examined every ointment, hoping to discover a fly in it, minutely tested every piece of armor, hoping to encounter a crack; yet in all this there was less malice than sense of metier. As Beau Brummell dressed for future ages, or Lucullus dined, Walpole peered into corners. But he had, too, his more special, often laborious pursuits: Strawberry Hill, the house he built...
...York, Chicago & St. Louis (Nickel Plate) Railroad. And since the Pennsylvania owns 32.6% of the Norfolk & Western's voting stock, Perlman began to fear that the girl he had rejected might join the N. & W.-Nickel Plate combine, leaving the Central to lead an impoverished bachelor existence...
...Reinhold Niebuhr, Bennett is a liberal with a somewhat acid view of the goodness of man. The son of a Presbyterian pastor in Morristown, N.J., he pointed for the ministry as an undergraduate at Williams, went on to Oxford for an A.B. in theology and to Union for his bachelor of divinity degree. He has spent his whole career teaching in seminaries, and has made "idolatrous" Communism his major study. In 1948 he published (and last year updated) the book for which he is best known: Christianity and Communism. He co-edits the liberal religious biweekly Christianity and Crisis, supports...
...their brains. Of the top-rank high school seniors who skip college, two-thirds are girls. The proportion of girls in college has slipped from 47% in 1920 (a vintage feminist year) to 37% now. Only a little more than half of all college girls get a bachelor's degree. For every 300 women capable of earning a doctorate degree, only one does. In utilizing women's brains, Russia outdoes the U.S.: 30% of Soviet engineers and 75% of doctors are women. In the U.S., only 6% of the doctors and 1% of engineers are women...