Word: elder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indeed, Buchwald, who is more or less the presiding elder, claims that before long it will be just like Harvard. A father will have to enroll his son at birth to be accepted at Sans Souci...
...grew up near Birmingham. His father, who served as Birmingham's school medical officer, used to stud his lectures on such public-health needs as flush toilets with quotations from Vergil, a blending of the classical and clinical that often marked Auden's verse. But the elder Auden used to confide in his son that doctors never know why their patients get well. At Ox ford, from which he graduated in the late '20s, already a poet, Auden studied Freud and preached that poets must be "clinically minded." He liked to explain his own nail biting...
Given the presence of such strong and diverse personalities, it is perhaps surprising that any agreement could be reached at all. At week's end it fell to nonalignment's elder statesman, President Tito, to put forth several concrete proposals. They included: abolition of the big-power veto in the U.N. Security Council, periodic meetings of heads of state of General Assembly members to achieve unity on major issues and the establishment of a fund to help the victims of aggression, colonialism and foreign occupation...
...Matsushita joined the family firm, Matsushita Electric Industrial Company, and began studying shacho-gaku (the art of presidency). Now the elder Matsushita, 78, is stepping down after 55 years as chief executive. His position as chairman will be filled by Arataro Takahashi, 70, but the power will be swung by Masaharu Matsushita, who will continue as president...
...shift promises to change the personality of the company. The elder Matsushita, an outspoken man who enjoys traditional tea ceremonies, ran the company (sales last year: $3.9 billion) as a one-man show. Under Masaharu, 60, an introspective, analytical man who loves to spend free time golfing, managers will have greater autonomy. Says he: "I don't think top executives should allow themselves to be involved in the process of decision making for day-today operations. We have to think in a global context...