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lavishing, in leaking roses, borders of bachelor's buttons, blue at the buttonhole, and the scent of solitary sentry lilies: sentences burgeoning like blood from a slit artery...
Gothard, a bachelor, gets a salary of only $600 a month, drives a 1970 Chevy and still lives with his parents in La Grange, Ill. No one, he believes, should leave home until he marries. As for the fact that he is an unmarried man dispensing dogma on husband-wife problems and child rearing, Gothard is unworried. Says he: "We have some pretty good precedents for that: Jesus Christ and the Apostle Paul...
...literature endeared him to generations of students, including Ohio Governor John Gilligan and the late novelist Edwin O'Connor. Students flocked to his courses in such numbers that O'Malley had to screen them for admission. Renowned for producing a prodigious crop of fellowship winners, the quiet bachelor once described his favorite pastime as "writing letters of recommendation...
...Greeks outside the army, there was not much to celebrate, and few civilians would want to admit any responsibility for the creations of the past seven years. General Phaedon Gizikis, 56, is the current President, but the real power is Brigadier Dimitrios loannidis, 52, an austere bachelor who heads the military police. loannidis is widely suspected of plotting the coup against Papadopoulos, mainly because the general believed that the country was drifting away from tight central control...
Clive dutifully livens his exposition by suggesting the obligatory sinister Victorian flaw. Macaulay, a lifelong bachelor, loved his younger sisters Margaret and Hannah more than a brother should. Working from this clue of psychological incest, Clive submits that Macaulay was a suppressed romantic, smoldering behind a mask of rationality. He even labors to make him a man of our time: asserting the intellectual capabilities and working performance of the black race, and defending the rights of Roman Catholics and Jews...