Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...age of five, he discovered that the man he thought was his father was not, in fact, his biological father. It was not until Jackson began to demonstrate success as an athlete that his real father acknowledged...
When student protestors took over University Hall in 1969, Archie C. Epps III was a "baby dean" in the College administration, closer in age to many of the protestors than to the administrators who called in the police to eject them...
...previous generations of journalists, thecivil rights movement and the Vietnam War were themajor events of our time, whereas for mygeneration, the digital revolution and the newinformation age formed the major story," he says...
...cozy new Webzine called Senior Women Web www.seniorwomen.com offers musings on "age rage" and reviews of books, plays and movies likely to appeal to a mature cultural palate. Founding mother Tam Martinides Gray, 62, a senior reporter at TIME, aims to appeal to older women, but the site is so congenial that many may find husbands and daughters reading over their shoulders...
...author of the stunning Regeneration trilogy clearly has still more to say about World War I. Geordie, 101, on his deathbed, is haunted by visions of the trenches and the death of his brother. His grandson Nick, who is nursing him, is struggling instead with one of the modern age's versions of warfare, a cobbled together, dysfunctional family. Nick moves between his grandfather's past and his own unsettled present wondering about survival. But Barker's faith in the power of redemption lets her, and the reader, down: the hasty if elegiac conclusion promises a peace that...