Word: singlehood
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Dates: during 1967-1967
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...business careers, singlehood has its liabilities. As Vance Packard reports in The Pyramid Climbers: "In general the bachelor is viewed with circumspection, especially if he is not well known to the people appraising him." If he is still in his 20s, the personnel manager worries whether he is too busy with his love life to devote full attention to his job. "The worst status of all is that of a bachelor beyond the age of 36. The investigators wonder why he isn't married. Is it because he isn't virile? Is he old-maidish...