Word: bachelors
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Born in Lincoln Ridge, Ky., where his father had become the first black president of Lincoln Institute, a white-run high school for blacks, Young held a bachelor's degree from Kentucky State College and an M.A. in social work from the University of Minnesota. When he enlisted in the Army in World War 11, he was assigned first to electrical engineering studies at M.I.T., but later wound up building roads in Europe in a black company commanded by Southern whites. As a first sergeant he became an effective negotiator between officers and men. "I insisted on the officers...
Recent alumni who are eligible are those who received bachelor degrees this year or advanced degrees within the past three years. The five "young" trustees on the screening committee include last year's president of the M.I.T. graduate student council, a director of the World Bank, the head mistress of a Midwestern girls' school, a businessman and an attorney. Their ages range from...
Buechner's characters do not easily lend themselves to humor. The narrator is a bachelor approaching middle age, who lives with his cat on the Upper East Side, and goes to the hospital every day, to visit his twin sister, who is dying of a bone disease, and has just been divorced by her husband. The narrator's subject is the middle-aged founder of a Southern fundamentalist religion, which ordains anybody to the ministry by request (and the payment of a love offering), a former Bible salesman who did five years in jail for exhibitionism. The other characters...
Playboy plans to use the firm to sell subscriptions and products and run market surveys. Vittert remains president, sometimes working 60 hours at a stretch. He is a bachelor who does not drink, smoke or cuss and seldom dates. He drives a battered, four-year-old convertible, lives in a spartan one-room apartment and dislikes business entertaining to the point that he serves visitors sandwiches for lunch in his office. He professes little interest in making more money. "What can I do with it?" he asks, echoing the concern of the confused generation. "Eat four meals a day?" Instead...
...Boom. Colombo came to the job with a reputation of being an "uomo preparata" (competent man), a graceful but serious no-nonsense bachelor of 50. His first achievement was to settle, at least temporarily, the bickering over patronage among the four center-left coalition partners-Socialists, Social Democrats, Christian Democrats and Republicans. Next, he kept parliamentary peace by allowing a free vote on Italy's controversial divorce bill. Colombo throttled filibusters by his own right-wingers; in return, Communist Leader Enrico Berlinguer shut off anti-Vatican outbursts from the far left...