Word: aging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...former Marine grunt, member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and now a political activist, I was pleased with both Coming Home and The Deer Hunter [April 23]. There are many subtle lessons in our Asian experience, and it is my fervent hope that the generation now coming of age will be exposed to all of the views concerning...
...heroic age," says Riesenberg with both premature nostalgia and the esprit of a pioneer who is also his own historian. Next year, or the year after, the center could deteriorate into a rest-and-recreation area for tired professors who can't make it to the next sabbatical-the stuff that satirical novels and Senator William Proxmire's "Golden Fleece" awards are made...
...provide. Because he has peered at nature's building blocks more closely than anyone but fellow biologists, and because he can translate his visions more gracefully than anyone but fellow writers, Thomas' good news about the human race is practically unique. Given the pessimistic tenor of our age the good doctor and his message could not have come along at a better time...
...diversify into the vast spectrum of life. Humans have mimed this sloppy but productive process; "the capacity to leap across mountains of information to land lightly on the wrong side represents the highest of human endowments." With tongue in cheek, Thomas hails the arrival of the computer age; he looks forward to the bigger mistakes that the programming of bigger computers will make...
Pompan's dedication has gone a long way toward elevating his game since he came here in the fall of 19. For years one of the top 20 players in his national age group rankings. Pompan has worked with coach Dave Fish and picked up his game a notch at Harvard...