Word: lads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...modern Cambridge freshman does not often resemble the "young buck" Byron, who kept a bear in his rooms at Trinity (dogs were barred). He is generally a public school product on scholarship; traditionalists find him distressingly "professional," the sort of lad who runs an ad agency or nightclub on the side. But today's Cantab still savors yesterday's delights, even to the services of a "gyp," who wakes him in the morning, makes his bed and calls...
...Moise was sent off to nearby Kanene to win his degree at the Methodist teachers college. He even took a correspondence course in bookkeeping. A gregarious, gay fellow, Moise seemed less interested in commerce than in good times and cars-one big Ford particularly impressed the local girls. The lad first had a go at running the family firm in Elisabethville, the big city itself, then branched out with a group of village stores of his own. But his ventures collapsed...
...educational book or library advisory service. One such-The Man Who Walked Around the World, by Benjamin Elkin (Childrens Press; $2.50)-bears the menacing label, "A Reading Laboratory Book," and offers "skill-builder words beyond the first thousand words for children's reading." Among the skill-builders are lad, lit, below, flew and top, which provoke wonder as to what the first thousand words could be and who counted them...
...Family Man. Sparkplug of this international campaign is a Jesuit theologian, Francis Lad Filas, 46, chairman of the theology department at Chicago's Loyola University. One day in 1937, Filas stumbled on an ancient German treatise on St. Joseph, and was attracted to the Virgin's husband as "an obscure underdog who didn't deserve the treatment he had received in history." In 1944 he published his first book on Joseph, The Man Nearest to Christ, and books, pamphlets, lectures and magazine articles on the saint have been pouring out of his typewriter ever since. Jesuit Filas...
Morse (age: 30) plays J. Pierpont Finch, a lad who is eager to score on the inside, instead of scouring the outside, of the Mies van der Rohe palace that houses the World Wide Wickets Co. Finch enters the mail room armed with apple-cheeked guile and a handbook to success that makes him the greatest ploy-boy in the history of officemanship...