Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...befalls the street rockers. But Joe Incagnoli doesn't think punks can be commercialized. Punk is much more than punk rock; it is lived by real people, not fabricated for sale. "Look where punk is coming from--who's going to listen to it? It's not really an age group, it's a culture...
Harvard will commemorate Robert T.S. Lowell Jr. '39, the leading American poet and former Harvard lecturer who died last fall at the age of 60, with a poetry reading, library exhibit and memorial service tomorrow and Thursday...
...Age is not always an enemy. Experience can equip an athlete with a savvy to compensate for what he has lost in reflexes. As Ali said in demanding a rematch with Leon Spinks last week: "I may be old, but I'm not dumb." But in physical competition, an old pro's tricks can only postpone retirement...
What is the best time to retire? Jim Brown, the great running back of the Cleveland Browns, quit at the height of his powers, in 1966, before he began having to fight his age. By contrast, Willie Mays went on until he was 42 and found himself stumbling around under fly balls for the New York Mets. There is a natural season, a range of ages, for athletes in most sports. Russia's Olga Korbut, a gold medal gymnast in 1972 at the age of 17, appeared sadly middle-aged four years later. Rumania's Nadia Comaneci, whose...
...when we are constantly assaulted by our own electronic technology, an era when satellites and television are as common as shoes and socks, an era that media critic Marshall McLuhan has aptly summed up as "the electronic age," you would expect to find some established means of learning about electronic technology in your college. After all, didn't McLuhan say, "We are no more prepared to encounter radio and TV in our literate milieu than the native of Ghana is able to cope with the literacy that takes him out of his tribal world and beaches him in individual isolation...