Word: bachelorhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...person, up 54% since 1970. But it warned that the data "do not necessarily portend a sharp rise in lifelong singleness." Most of the increase is accounted for by widows and young people postponing marriage. Other studies show that living together is largely a way station en route from bachelorhood to matrimony...
First, fun-loving Financier Bernie Cornfeld lost his mutual fund empire. Now, at 48, he's said goodbye to another cherished asset−his swinging bachelorhood. In a candlelit ceremony at his Beverly Hills mansion, Bernie appeared in dazzling white−it was, after all, his first marriage−to wed Lorraine Dillon Armbruster, 28, a sometime fashion model whom he met in Paris a year ago. After the Jewish ceremony, the happy couple accepted congratulations from a crowd of well-wishers that included Best Man Tony Curtis, Warren Beatty, Michelle Phillips and Bernie's Russian-born...
...John Adams from failure as a rustic lawyer to the center of revolutionary agitation in colonial Boston, is a fair example of how the series works. For Adams' rise to large status in our political history is paralleled by a shrewd depiction of his personal progress from a bachelorhood feverish with suppressed sexuality to a courtship of Abigail (appealingly played by Kathryn Walker) that is near-comic in its ardor...
When he was an impoverished law student and she a radiant Portia in a touring Shakespeare company, they spent three delirious days together. It was, Laurence Olivier says, the love of his life, exerting such a powerful hold that he had no choice thereafter but bachelorhood. Katharine Hepburn claims she can't remember a thing about it, but since he is now London's leading barrister, perhaps he will stop his nostalgic mooning and get on with the business of defending the excellent name and fortune she married. Can anyone, after all, seriously believe that she promised...
...focusing on men and larger societal needs, Gilder ignores the rising cry of women for self-fulfillment outside the home. He pads the book with trivial anecdotes, like his chapter on the unfeeling treatment of two lonely Harvard professors at a Los Angeles massage parlor. In his insistence that bachelorhood causes trouble and lower earnings, he considers but rejects an equally persuasive explanation of his statistics: that poor and troubled men may be fated to remain single. He tends to see every social ill as a sexual ill in disguise, suggesting, for example, that "one way to explain black poverty...