Word: dropout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was no elaboration on Sinatra's pedagogical plans. Pressagent Jim Mahoney said: "I don't know of any professorship, but he may be open for one." It is questionable how long a mercurial and sleepless man like Sinatra can be happy as a professional dropout, ruminating and writing. The penultimate paragraph of his statement refers to a "breather" rather than complete retirement. As Bob Regehr, an executive of Sinatra's recording company, said last week: "I have yet to recall an entertainer who stayed in retirement. A great artist is a great artist. How many times...
...prison routine is not brutal, merely demeaning. Its intent is simply to ensure that the ablest Americans will be cooperative members of a smoothly functioning society. Vandenberg, who was a truculent dropout from the old society, likes the new one even less. There are moments when the interrogation scenes are better than pop and appear to be building toward a chilling foreview of post-modern society. So much that Vandenberg's therapist-interrogator says is plainly reasonable; the Soviets, by his plausible account, really are providing the greatest good for the greatest number. Very briefly, the reader is reminded...
Albert, an Amherst graduate and Yale Drama dropout, has directed "The Proposition," Cambridge's long-running improvisational review, since June 1969. He plans to operate the Charles on a year-round basis in an effort to resurrect the theatre from its current moribundity...
EDGAR SMITH. No American has endured death row longer (13 years, 7 months) than Edgar Smith-and few inmates have achieved greater self-rehabilitation. In 1957 he was a high school dropout of 23, an ex-Marine and jobless drifter. That summer he was charged with killing an acquaintance, a Ramsey, N.J., schoolgirl whose body was found in a deserted sand pit, her skull crushed by a 14-lb. boulder. Though Smith vehemently denied guilt, he was convicted on circumstantial evidence and sentenced to die in the electric chair at Trenton State Penitentiary. Instead of vegetating in his cell, Smith...
...proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone," said Henry David Thoreau, the most conspicuous nonconsumer in American letters. At $7.50 this slim, handsome gathering of maps, sketches and photos, which serve as a guide to Thoreau's travels as a naturalist, surveyor, dropout and poet, should please-but not greatly compromise-admirers of H.D.T.'s writings and principles...