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...America, old people did not have much trouble living up to that philosophy. Work and age had not been severed. In colonial times, elderly people were fewer, but they held the best jobs. Nor did they budge from their posts until death or ill health forced them out. In 17th century New England, 90% of the ministers and magistrates died in office. People showed their respect for age?and power ?by attempting to look older than they were. They powdered their hair and wore the severely cut clothing of the aged...
...Idleness is the death of a living man," said the 17th century British prelate Jeremy Taylor. Work is an anodyne for the inevitability of death, says contemporary Sociologist Daniel Bell. For Sigmund Freud, work was a means of binding an individual to reality and his community...
Five of the six paintings were on loan from Harvard's Fogg Art Museum, including two works by the 19th century French impressionist Eugene Boudin and one by the 17th century Dutch painter Gerrit Berckheyde, valued at $100,000 each...
Johnson started off his round by going five-over par after five holes but then buckled down to play the remaining 15 holes in one-over. Johnson started his round on the 14th hole, which he promptly bogeyed. His Waterloo came on the par three 17th. He plunked his tee shot into a greenside bunker, bellied his sand shot over the green, and took a triple bogey...
Nancy Shiffrin, 33, a California writer, always had trouble finishing books and articles. But unlike most authors bedeviled by blocks, she now knows where her troubles began: in the 17th century. During a session with Morris Netherton, a Los Angeles therapist, she had a vision of herself as a woman on trial in America in 1677 for heresy and trying to hide an incriminating diary from her inquisitors. Three hundred years later she was still "hiding the book." But no more. After Netherton's therapy, she says: "I seem to have very little problem finishing up things...