Word: aging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Americans do not save much-only 5% or so of their incomes-because they figure that those monthly Government checks will nicely take care of their old age. When Johnny Bluecollar retires now, Social Security benefits for himself and his aged wife average nearly 85% of his peak after-tax earnings...
...compassionate songs became best known in the U.S. through the cabaret-style musical Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris; of a pulmonary embolism; in Bobigny, France. With a dramatic intensity often likened to that of Edith Piaf, Brel sang about loneliness, lost love, war, old age and death. At 37, not wanting to become "an old singer," he stopped giving concerts and began a new career as an actor and director. After being treated for lung cancer...
...discovery of these so-called restriction enzymes promises to help un ravel the mysteries of cell development, hereditary disease and cancer. It has al ready allowed scientists to analyze the chemical structure of genes and to map their sequence along DNA strands. It has ushered in a new age of genetic engineer ing by making possible the combining of genetic material from different species by the controversial recombinant " DNA technique...
...impressive display for a composer whose first memorable work was completed at age 48 and whose musical merit was debated for years. An ardent nationalist and legendary eccentric, Janacek composed music full of short, abrupt but harmonically lovely melodies that built from one another into a driving whole. His symphonic works called for more brass and slashing power than many an orchestra could muster. Because Czech consonant clusters are so prickly, his operas were considered hopeless tongue twisters by singers outside his country. The subjects-time warps, prison-camp life, child murder-left audiences pining for the heraldic posturing more...
...residents of Brno promote Janacek's work as hard as they play down his life-a chronicle so scandalous that, after 50 years, Brno still blushes and changes the subject when anyone mentions it. A choir director, conductor and organ teacher, Janacek at age 27 married one of his students, 16-year-old Zdenka Schulz, and lived unhappily ever after. Despite two children, Janacek humiliated his wife with his spectacular philandering. In less amorous moments, he found time to compose three minor operas and The Excursions of Mr. Brouček, a light, satirical tale about a flight...