Word: aging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stephanie Van Dyke has worked for several organizations not directly concerned with Harvard, such as Somerville United Neighborhoods, and 9 to 5, an organization of women office workers who campaign against age and sex discrimination. But even when involved with tenants' organizations, students come into contact with Harvard in its role as landowner and landlord, Van Dyke says...
...York began to apply its new "anti-john" law, imposing stiffer penalties for prostitutes' clients (johns) who in the past usually got off with the equivalent of a traffic ticket. Early hauls have included a 69-year-old man from New Jersey, let off in deference to his age. Other offenders will not get off so lightly. For patronizing a prostitute under age 11, the term can run as high as seven years...
...better educated, have less contact with Jewish ritual and are more likely to break away from traditional Jewish humor to deliver social or political messages in their acts. Says Janus: "The older ones changed their names and relieved their tensions with booze. The younger ones lie about their age and dabble with pills and coke...
...Wilson, mankind's greatest problem is that it is caught in the 20th century with a nature largely shaped by evolution to deal with ice-age problems. That nature, he says, "is a hodgepodge of special genetic adaptations to an environment largely vanished." How can humans cope? By discovering the programming built into the human brain and deciding which "censors and motivators" can and should be disobeyed. Only sociobiology, he concludes, can provide the "precise steering" to guide the human race...
...Age Politics--JFK School of Government...