Word: elder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shaped my whole life," declared Betty Ford of the elder stateswoman of modern dance, Martha Graham, 81. "She gave me the ability to stand up to all the things I have had to go through, with much more courage than I would have had without her." The First Lady, 57, was having her first reunion with her former mentor in more than three decades. Back in the late 1930s, Mrs. Ford was Betty Bloomer from Grand Rapids, a tyro member of the Graham entourage. After watching a brief rehearsal at the Graham school in Manhattan, Betty gave Martha...
...cricket and golf. A.A. Milne had been an editor of Punch, a master of whimsy and light verse. The Pooh books are for grownups as well as children, and he wrote them to make money and please himself as well as to please Christopher Robin. In fact, the elder Milne appears to have regarded small children as egotists and barbarians. "I have certainly never felt the least sentimental about them," he once told an interviewer, "or no more sentimental than one becomes for a moment over a puppy or a kitten." He rarely played with his son when Christopher...
...century Paris and Spain. The only swinging Carmen Ordóñez de Rivera, 21, does is from the ropes in her father's bullring. Then her stark beauty sparks into a dazzling smile, she starts to laugh and becomes a kid on a spree. Normally, Carmen, the elder daughter of one of Spain's greatest matadors, Antonio Ordóñez, is as poised as an infanta. Descended on both sides from bullfighters, she is an elegant young woman with a simpler joie de vivre than her contemporaries in such racy cities as London and New York...
...evening's end the applause lasted six minutes. This is not spectacular by New York standards, but highly generous when measured against the traditional reticence of Tokyo theatergoers. The biggest hand went to Robert Merrill, 56, who sings the role of the elder Germont with almost all of his familiar baritone magnificence. Mixed with the bravoes and clapping was a certain animal-like howl that signifies Japanese enthusiasm. To Western ears, the sound is uncomfortably like booing. From the brief, but noticeable, look of pain on Alexander's face, it seemed clear that he had not previously heard...
...Jack Nicklaus keep up his recent winning pace to collect his fifth Masters title? Can Johnny Miller, who missed the cut at the Heritage Classic, regain the winning touch that earned him three titles earlier this season? How will Lee Elder handle the pressure of being the first black to compete for the winner's green jacket? These are among the tantalizing questions that will draw thousands of fans to Augusta, Ga., this week, and millions more to their television sets to view golf's most notable rite of spring-the Masters tournament...