Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...constituents were troubled by conditions on land, especially Social Security. Many were stunned by Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps' suggestion that it might be better for an individual to wait until age 68 rather than the current 62 or 65 to receive benefits. An irate woman complained: "The working class has really been overburdened with taxes and inflation. Now you're taking away our playtime." Hastily dissociating himself from Kreps' trial balloon, Studds responded that many of his constituents wanted to lower the age for receiving payments to 60 or even 55. Said he: "The toughest...
...broader context, the panel noted that the number of children under 18 who live in two-parent homes has dropped from 89% in 1960 to 80% and speculated that family disruption might lower scores. TV was cited as a probable factor: the panel figured that "by age 16, most children have spent between 10,000 and 15,000 hours watching television, more time than they have spent in school." Then, too, the decline in scores took place during a decade of distraction: "political assassination, burning cities and the corruption of national leadership." Finally, the group cited a striking lack...
...freshman this fall at Brown University, Bread Loaf was a chance to meet others like herself who "feel passionate about their writing." Then there was Dr. Theodore Badger, 77, a ruddy-faced professor emeritus at the Harvard Medical School, who began his writing career at the age of 70 with a column in Medical Dimensions magazine. Said he: "I just wanted to come and steep myself in the intellectual atmosphere...
Health studies have long shown that single, widowed and divorced people are far likelier prey to disease than married folk. Some examples: the coronary death rate among widows between 25 and 34 is five times that of married women in the same age group. At all ages, the divorced are twice as likely as the married to develop lung cancer or suffer a stroke. Among divorced white males, cirrhosis of the liver is seven times more common, and tuberculosis ten times more common...
...poems take Lowell from age 56 to 60 and announce, explicitly or otherwise, a new regimen...