Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Improving with Age...
...saccharine in films like Tiger Bay and Pollyanna. For the past two years, she has been living with Producer Roy Boulting, 55. "I could never fall in love with anyone unless first I had enormous admiration for him," she says. "I never met a young man of my own age for whom I had this feeling." Joanna Steichen was 26 when she married Photographer Edward Steichen, who was 80. That was nine years ago,.and Mrs. Steichen says she has never regretted it. "In many ways," she observes, "the girls in such marriages want very much to conform, once they...
...must one age treat another in a May-December marriage? Carefully, very carefully. Sometimes after the first ex citement has dissipated, an older man realizes how young and unformed his bride's character is, and how much she is sacrificing, deliberately or not, in the way of normal development among her contemporaries. Such husbands must often assume a fatherly role in encouraging their wives' interests and education. Bing Crosby, who was 53 in 1957 when he married Kathy Crosby, then 23, encouraged his wife's careers as an actress and a nurse. Justice Douglas has been quietly...
...fact, such marriages often seem to work almost precisely because of the age differences. Eighty-seven-year-old Pablo Picasso's evident contentment with his wife Jacqueline, 43, might have been impossible in his younger years. If Charlie Chaplin had married Oona O'Neill when he was 30 or 35, it probably would not have lasted a year. Instead, he married her in 1943 at a mellower 54, when she was 18, and the marriage, with eight children, has been prolific and apparently serene. "My security and stability with Charlie," Oona has said, "stem from the difference...
Regardless of age, many (perhaps most) marriages would seem ill-advised if not maniacal, could they be considered dispassionately in advance. Most May-December marriages thus considered look even worse. Yet there is no evidence that they turn out any worse than most unions-and possibly they work a lot better. Older men, for example, are no longer obsessed by their careers, and are much less likely to become obsessed with other young women. They are more indulgent; and besides, with them a woman is much less conscious of her own aging. Above all, the old and young partners...