Word: codger
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...television stations. That campaign song was the climactic effort by Democrat Birch Bayh, 34, to unseat three-term Republican Senator Homer Capehart, 65. And unseated Homer was. But it was less because of Bayh's jumpy theme-tune than because Capehart looked, talked and acted like an old codger...
...year ago. Says Bayh: "I feel the average voter is impressed by a fellow who's out there just working his tail off." Homer Capehart. who just happened to be a responsible, hard-working Senator, would have expressed the same sentiment-but in the words of an old codger. And that was the difference...
...Duke of York "is the one clearly comic personage" in the play is woefully to misread the role. York is not comic; he is piteous. At any rate Patrick Hines brings to York not an interpretation, but a dozen interpretations. I have not the haziest idea what sort of codger Hines takes York to be. And someone should inform Hines that, in Shakespeare, the word 'issue' is not a sneeze...
...better than hack historicals, he dusted off some old documents, ran down some dubious legends and wrote a book about a fascinating 18th century eccentric, Lord Timothy Dexter of Newburyport, Mass. Marquand was never satisfied with the effort. Now, 35 years later, Timothy Dexter Revisited gives a curious old codger...
Interviewed in Florida, Singer Pat Boone, sometime lay Church of Christ preacher, allowed that show business is a fine calling for an old (24) codger like himself, but "I wouldn't recommend it for young people-especially girls. If they have a very special talent, maybe...