Word: ageism
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...solid marriage doesn't guarantee career longevity, but Cash managed both. "We had more than one discussion about the ageism of country and rock," says rocker Tom Petty, who recorded and toured with Cash. "When something's gone past that demographic of appealing to people in their 20s, they don't think it's good anymore. Yet here was the perfect case of a guy who was growing older and his music was growing with him." It was Cash who took Bob Dylan to Music City to make the 1969 Nashville Skyline. Later, he guested on songs with Ray Charles...
...real tragic romance of the show wasn't about sex, exactly, and wasn't about ageism. And it all started with show-tune-belting Maralyn leaning back like Marlene Dietrich in the Australian shallows and rhapsodizing about Tina, in what may have been the butchest moment in network television history...
Generating a laugh, Ireland worried that "Electile Dysfunction" would become the catch phrase of last week's election. Referring to signs at Republican protest rallies saying 'Democrats are Too Dumb to Vote,' she said there had been "a great deal of ageism" in the controversy surrounding Florida voting results...
Youth claimed victory on the island too. First to go--after she stumbled and lost her team an intraisland contest--was Sonja Christopher, 63, a charming woman who brought a ukulele to the island. Christopher doubts she fell to ageism but says, "At that point, strength and endurance were very important...If I were twentysomething and saw a 63-year-old woman, I probably would assume she'd be the weak link." Judging from the expulsion vote, Boesch might soon follow: Christopher barely edged him out. And (spoiler alert!) though neither contestants nor CBS will say who gets bumped when...
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...