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...Lasell, just a few doors down from Kaplan, Rosalind Meshekow, 84, diligently reviews her Spanish vocabulary. "I don't learn as fast as I used to," she says, "but since meals and housekeeping are taken care of for us here, I have more time to study." Flash cards in hand, Meshekow is struggling with a new list of words. She cares less about boosting her 2.9 gpa than about learning to communicate with the Spanish speakers around her. Unlike most of her fellow retirees who already have degrees, Meshekow, a former secretary, is working toward her first college diploma...
...Kaplan, 86, is one of 210 student...
...retirement community opened in may 2000 on the campus of Lasell College. After living in an 11-room mansion in nearby Brookline for 53 years, the couple was lured to Lasell by the desire to rejoin a scholarly community--reasonably priced health-care insurance was an added incentive. The Kaplans put down a $400,000 entrance fee (90% of which will be refunded when they leave) and pay a $4,000 monthly residence fee for an 1,100-sq.-ft., two-bedroom, two-bath apartment. The deal requires them to take 450 hours of college work a year. "We didn...
Just a few hundred yards from the tiny dorm rooms where his younger classmates reside, Kaplan reaches up to a handmade bookshelf and dusts off his 1940 Yale thesis on F.D.R. up until now the retired furniture maker has avoided Lasell writing courses. Kaplan skims his old thesis to remind himself how he used to Polish his prose. Having lived through 11 presidencies and the birth of three grandchildren since he penned that last paper, he reviews his work with a critical eye. Then he sets it aside, closes his laptop and puts pen to page the old-fashioned...
They didn't delve into biochemistry, though, and it turns out they probably didn't get the stages right either. In the 1970s psychiatrist Helen Singer Kaplan, who founded the Human Sexuality Program at New York Weill Cornell Medical Center, pointed out that before you get physically aroused, you have to feel sexual desire--a statement that seems pretty obvious. It's also pretty obvious to anyone who has been in a heterosexual relationship that men and women tend to experience sexuality somewhat differently. So where Masters and Johnson saw sexual arousal as a linear progression toward orgasm, researchers like...