Word: dropout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Enter Cameron, a college dropout but a graduate of Roger Corman's famous schlock shop, where directors as divergent as Francis Coppola and Martin Scorsese had done their early professional work. There he also met his future wife, who was Corman's executive assistant. Cameron left in 1982 to direct his first feature, Piranha II. By 1983 Cameron and Hurd had written an original script called The Terminator, and Alien's proprietors were impressed with it. They called Cameron in to discuss another project, about which they could not reach agreement. Before he left, however, Producer David Giler threw...
...former Secretary of Transportation Drew Lewis doffed his academic hood and rejected an honorary degree after 28 faculty members protested his handling of the air controllers' strike five years ago. At the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, by contrast, Julius ("Dr. J") Erving, 36, pro basketball star and onetime college dropout, proudly accepted both an honorary degree and a hard- earned baccalaureate. Said Dr. J of the latter: "I needed that to fulfill a promise I made to my mother." And at Georgetown University in Washington, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor reminded law school graduates that there are other...
...Joseph Olander became president, seemingly an odd choice to continue building a college that had been under fire. A high school dropout and former street brawler, Olander taught himself to read from repair manuals and science fiction at a U.S. Air Force station on Canada's Baffin Island. Suddenly enchanted with education, he says, "I simply left the world of being a hoodlum" and worked his way through a number of degrees to a vice presidency at the University of Texas, El Paso; there he earned a dual reputation as an innovative manager and cheerful nut who liked to dress...
...studio. In 1955, at Humbard's urging, Oral Roberts began telecasting weekly films of himself placing healing hands upon lines of supplicants in sweat-drenched tent revivals. The nation was thrilled, or aghast, to watch hard-core Pentecostalism in the living room. Roberts, a Bible college dropout, was able to fold the tent and open his university off the proceeds...
Ricardo Pagusara, 24, a college dropout in the southern Philippine port , city of Cebu, puts the country's immediate dilemma more simply. Says he: "Respect for the present government is fast disappearing. People have become so desperate that they are willing to gamble with a new, untried person." Says Enrique Zobel, a prominent pro-Marcos businessman: "The people simply want a change...