Word: bachelors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whose 300th birthday was last month, was the son of a Halle barber- surgeon who wanted his boy to study law. A well-traveled cosmopolitan, he settled in London, anglicized his name from Handel, and became the dominant operatic and oratorio composer of his day. When he died, a bachelor at 74, he was buried with great ceremony in Poet's Corner at Westminster Abbey. By contrast, Bach, whose birthday falls this week, came from a long line of musicians and spent almost his entire life in what is now East Germany in the often contentious service of pompous princelings...
...DeVry Institutes, a Bell & Howell subsidiary, are at the trade-school end of the spectrum. A profit-making enterprise, DeVry sells "education for the real world." It is a tough-minded, no-frills outfit with about 30,000 students, enrolled in eleven institutes across the continent, studying for bachelor's, associate's and technician's diplomas in various electronics fields. The school operates twelve months a year in three shifts, morning, afternoon and night. Along with their technical courses, degree students must satisfy some requirements in psychology, English, history and literature. But DeVry makes no bones about the fact that...
...Albert," became an almost monthly White House visitor. When her aides suggested she invite Opera Star Frederica von Stade to perform at a state dinner in 1982, the unsure First Lady ordered them first to "check it out with Frank." Nancy also saw quite a lot of her rich bachelor friend Jerry Zipkin, a full-time Manhattan partygoer whom she has called "a modern-day Oscar Wilde." Says one of her former aides: "There is a little element here of Louis XIV's French court and les precieuses --the affected ladies. She had a certain liking for witty, amusing, well...
...confirmed bachelor who looks a bit like Bert Lahr's Cowardly Lion, McGowan lived in rented apartments for most of his life, but four years ago he bought a house in Georgetown and converted it into a revealing kind of private playland. Pushbuttons control all manner of gadgets: lighting panels on every floor, a laser-disk stereo system that can be turned on by infrared signals from any room. And in the back patio, a Jacuzzi whirlpool bath stands surrounded by fake boulders. McGowan admired the props in the polar bear cage at the National Zoo and ordered some...
...Englishwoman, Sarah Layton (Geraldrne James), and an Indian, Ahmed Kasim (Derrick Branche). Around them all and around every corner hovers Count Bro-nowsky (Eric Porter). In a world where British cliques and clans are mixed with Hindu castes and classes, Bronowsky-a Russian emigre, an aristocrat and a confirmed bachelor-does not fit on any score. But neither does Merrick or the Muslim Kasim. Indeed, Jewel presents a teeming society of outcasts-spinsters, exiles, maiden aunts and homosexuals for whom the Empire was a kind of straitjacket. As the end of an era approaches and the series wends...