Word: 70s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most remarkable of the 1,200 or so Super-Seniors-players who are at least 55 years old and still compete in tournament tennis. In the five years since the Super-Senior organization was founded, divisions have been formed first for free-swinging 60s, then for 65s, 70s and 75s. This year Super-Senior President C. Alphonso ("Smithy") Smith, who as a mere stripling of 68 has already won some 30 national championships, has organized the 80s, surely the sport's most exclusive fraternity. To mark the inaugural. Smithy, as nonplaying captain, is taking a team consisting of Henry...
...scourge of the 70s group, Buddy Goeltz, 71, wears a hearing aid. It faltered during the finals of the U.S. Clay Court Championships last fall, preventing him from hearing any of the linesmen's calls. He still won, 6-0, 6-0, beating Sam Shore, 71. Bitsy Grant, 66, a member of the U.S. Davis Cup team in the mid-1930s, has had cataract operations on both eyes, and wears sunglasses and a sun visor on the court. But none of the ailments of the Super-Seniors is as celebrated as that of L. Roe Campbell, 77, secretary-treasurer...
Just as she and her classmates found themselves incapable of fighting their socialization, she argues, so will most modern Radcliffe undergraduates wind up without careers; and like the graduates of the '20s, the graduates of the '70s will leave college "to quote Shelley and Keats at the kitchen sink...
...course, when Trilling met her undergraduates of the '70s Harvard had not yet adopted equal access admissions, nor had Radcliffe changed the scholarship policies that for so long have kept the income brackets of Radcliffe students higher than those of Harvard's. Both those changes may have the effects Trilling seeks in her suggestion that only the Colleges admit students "solely on the strength of a students's intention to be a wage-earner." Trilling's suggestion seems somewhat ill-considered, as it would--and she admits this--inevitably reduce the number of women at Harvard, even though it would...
...there is one more difference between the graduates of the '20s and those of the '70s that Trilling has forgotten to consider. While women could go on to careers in the '20s and '30s, that step meant they had little hope of having families at all. And many fields were closed to them entirely, so that even if they ventured beyond the home, they had little prospect of success...