Word: ageism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Renowned psychologist Albert Ellis and co-author Emmett Velten challenge the orthodoxies of aging in Optimal Aging: Get Over Getting Older (Open Court). Ellis' smart, contrarian thinking will inspire many. "Ageism is a crucial fact of life in our culture, and talking openly about it is taboo. Older people--and you--had better break the taboo, not just with talk but with action. We had better do something about...
Hollywood's version of the old-boy network does appear to be engaged in an insidious form of hazing. "I think there is a fair amount of sexism and reverse ageism at work here," says Ted Harbert, Tarses' predecessor as ABC Entertainment chief. "That gets the skeptics going full speed." Still, her detractors say her behavior in the job has not helped her cause. They describe Tarses as both insecure and out of her depth, driving underlings hard and treating former friends and colleagues shabbily. She raised eyebrows by ordering two pilots co-produced by her boyfriend, former Letterman executive...
...Mark Sauer, director of the fertility program at New York City's Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, admits that the uproar "speaks to ageism and a double standard in society." Though the cutoff in his program is 55 (there's no cutoff for men), he had treated the woman earlier, believing she was 53. Now that she has given birth, he says, "I'm happy with the outcome, but I can't endorse the practice because of the risks. We see serious obstetrical complications in more than half the women over the age of 45." But if a woman accepts...
Cults are on the rise; so is interest in aliens, witchcraft, New Ageism, Satanism and anything having to do with the occult. Spiritual hunger is a natural part of the human psyche, but so are self-centeredness and obstinacy. Rather than turn to God, we try to fill the hole in our souls with money, prestige, sex, drugs, alcohol, food, pop culture, occult knowledge--virtually everything. Where does this lead us? To a decaying society rife with addicts and 39 dead Trekkies. It's time to get our heads out of the stars and turn back to that old-time...
Once she realized that, Friedan said she had to make the nation aware of its "ageism." With her newbook, she hopes to promote an awareness well intothe 21st century...