Word: 50th
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Maturity, said Erik Erikson, the famous explorer of the human life cycle, is when you wake up on your 50th birthday and don't regret your life. My classmates and I in the Radcliffe class of '67 have reached that daunting milestone. So what's our answer...
Major League Baseball has just completed its season-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's arrival in the game. The number he wore during his 10 years with the Brooklyn Dodgers--42--was permanently retired from use by all teams. Tributes were offered, speeches made. And some of the ensuing applause sounded suspiciously like people, including those who run baseball these days, patting themselves on the back...
...lead, having already done so twice in the past 12 years to warm reviews. Yet, for reasons even Kline cannot quite explain, he chooses to keep Hamlet handy at all times. Ever the dutiful student, the star of the forthcoming movies In & Out and The Ice Storm approaches his 50th birthday on Oct. 24 with the tenacity of a young actor still in search of answers. "It changes every time you read it," he says. "Just when you think you have Hamlet figured out, he does something so unexpected, you have to reconsider him completely...
...Americans to live longer on average and enjoy greater health and prosperity. But even more significant, the traditional demarcation points between youth and age are starting to blur. Amid images of George Bush parachuting out of a plane at 72 and baby boomers blowing out the candles on their 50th-birthday cakes, a growing number of citizens (call them seniors at your own risk) are radically redefining what it means...
...Force, a happy 50th, and some condolences. Empathize civilian-style along with Jimmy Stewart in 1966's Flight of the Phoenix. It's Lifeboat in the desert, or maybe a grim, post-war Gilligan's Island, with Stewart as an old-dog Skipper forced to yield to the "push-button world" and the ice-cold young German (the Professor?) who embodies it. You'll wince, maybe proudly, when Stewart tells us that "the little men with the slide rules and the computers are going to inherit the Earth." And then consider that this week, the whole thing could have been...