Word: elderly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...archetypal insurgent is John Elder, Massachusetts Democrat, Presbyterian minister and assistant to the dean of the Harvard Divinity School. Elder, 36, is married with five children, a nine-year-old partially blind foster child and a six-year-old Negro boy living with the family. He is president of the Arlington, Mass., Committee on Viet Nam. "As a clergyman, I suppose I'm most sensitive to some of the moral issues involved, and I have been very much impressed with the grounding of McCarthy's thought in Christian moral theology. He says the war in Viet...
...pair of substantial mammary glands," said Oliver Wendell Holmes the Elder in 1867, "has the advantage over the two hemispheres of the most learned professor's brain in the art of compounding a nutritious fluid for infants." Although eminently sound, Dr. Holmes's medical opinion was ignored by three generations of American women striving for female emancipation. The breast's function as fans et origo of a perfectly balanced natural diet was largely ignored. Now there are signs that highly educated and sophisticated American women are moving back to breast feeding as the best thing not only...
Married. Remi Brooke, 19, elder daughter of Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke; and Donald Hasler, 18, an engineering student whom she met last September through mutual friends; in Martha's Vineyard, Mass. Attending the interracial wedding were Illinois Senator Charles Percy and Massachusetts Governor John Volpe...
...eyes, "a big, rough, ugly cow of a woman." A virgin who shams wantonness, Josie is wildly in love with Landlord Jim Tyrone Jr., a dead soul embalmed in alcohol. Tyrone is, of course, another portrayal of O'Neill's elder brother who also appears in Long Day's Journey Into Night...
...life and bad times of the accused assassin,* Sol Sirhan, came into view. The middle-class Christian Arab family had lived in Jerusalem while Palestine was under British mandate, and the father, Bishara Salameh Sirhan, now 52, was a waterworks employee. The first Arab-Israeli war cost the elder Sirhan his job. Family life was contentious, but young Sirhan Sirhan did well at the Lutheran Evangelical School. (The family was Greek Orthodox, but also associated with other religious groups...