Word: studious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Laskey Bell was studious, quiet; his father jeeringly called him a "clerk," and that's what he became--a clerk in the Osborne Lumber Company, jeered at there by his boss Eddie Osborne because he blushed at the racy calendars Osborne hung on the wall of the office they both shared. Thirty years later, when Osborne came to him for a loan that would enable him to move into the expanding natural gas industry of the Kanawha Valley, with the promise of a full partnership, Laskey Bell set a further condition--he wanted Osborne's daughter's hand in marriage...
Gray will remain at Yale until next June. As Chicago's tenth president, she will have to deal with a celebrated and reputedly contentious faculty-which has included 42 Nobel prizewinners-as well as with some 2,500 studious and competitive undergraduates. Like Yale, Chicago has been making staff cutbacks, and a fund drive has fallen far short of its $280 million goal. Gray seems unintimidated. As one Chicago professor explains, "She knows the faculty and administration and has a sense of the student body's peculiarities." Says Gray, with a fine disregard of gender: "A university president...
SOLICITING STRONG SCHOLAR to head top university. Boasts 42 Nobel prizewinners, including Faculty Members Saul Bellow and Milton Friedman; achievements range from development of nuclear fission to compiling a 21-volume Assyrian dictionary. The 2,500 undergraduates (2 to 1 male) are studious and competitive, as are the 5,500 graduate students in the professional schools and graduate courses. New president must be adroit manager. Under Incumbent John Wilson, retiring soon at 65, university balanced $255 million budget by trimming faculty slightly and raising tuition; but drive to increase $272 million endowment lags. Salary modest (low $40,000 range...
...quality and substance of the drama are contained in the interaction of these four characters with the girls next door. The women include Marcie Braddick (Diana Gamser) an innocent, honest and studious girl from the midwest who enjoyed bake sales in high school, Susan Ward (Victoria Allan), a high falutin' preppie from Milton; and Maggie Cochran (Lisa Beach), an aggressive, sexy wise-cracker. Maggie tells Stanley after he shrinks in tension from her sexual advances, "How do you whistle? Just put your lips together and blow...
David Kepesh, the hero of Roth's novel, is a scholar of literature and lust. "Studious by day, dissolute by night" is David's motto although his career as a sexual prodigy only begins after he has won a Fullbright to study in London. There he meets two Swedish girls; Elizabeth, loving and sweet, and Birgitta, daring and wildly lascivious. The choice is between the hearth or the furnace and, characteristically, David wants both. For a while Kepesh manages to have that but Elizabeth flees the menage a trois and David eventually breaks with Birgitta, recoiling from the destructiveness...