Word: 80th
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Last Tuesday Strout almost missed his weekly transformation. The day marked his 35th anniversary as TRB and his 80th as Richard Strout. He was toasted at breakfast by 30 capital colleagues, before lunch by his friends at the New Republic and after lunch at the Monitor, where Reader Jimmy Carter telephoned his congratulations. Strout got a late start on his column, but one would never know; as usual, TRB this week is a sprawling symphony of erudition, indignation, historical allusion and harmonic prose. His overture to a diatribe against the two-thirds Senate majority requirement for treaty approval...
...subject tried to be gracious. It is "a remarkable example of modern art," pronounced Sir Winston Churchill at the unveiling in Westminster Hall in 1954 of his 80th birthday present, a portrait commissioned by Parliament and painted by the famed English neoromanticist Graham Sutherland. But his remark was tongue in cheek, and the audience roared. Winnie thought the portrait, which had a gloomy, resigned-to-age air about it, made him look "half-witted, which I ain't." His dutiful wife Clementine put it out of sight in the basement and promised her husband that it would never...
Paul is the fourth Pope in a row to pass his 80th birthday and the seventh out of eight in the past century. Indeed, late last week he tried to end the resignation talk when he told the Synod of Bishops assembled in Rome: "From this event in our lives, for all the time that God may wish to allow us, we have the firm resolution to dedicate all of our strength for the good of the church...
Harvard hires an average percentage of women at the associate and assistant professor levels. At those levels, the University pays salaries that fall between the 60th and 80th percentile of the nation, according to the study...
Paul is not known to possess any sickness unto death, but rumors persist that he might resign, possibly on his 80th birthday. No Pope has resigned for centuries, however, and Paul has never indicated that he is considering it. Moreover, he would be highly unlikely to quit on his birthday since that would disrupt the Synod of Bishops that opens Sept. 30, which has been in preparation over the past three years. Paul's moves last week have brought the voting membership of the College of Cardinals up to 119 out of the full 120 permitted. He also named...