Word: elderly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Historian Arnold Toynbee, and literary critic of the London Sunday Observer, has in fact got so preoccupied with his craft that he has left out the most essential ingredient of the poet's art: passion. Neither Dick Abberville, the old man re-creating in memory his long-dead elder brother Andrew, nor Andrew himself, part "Marvelous Boy," part "romantic ass in diplomatic dress," ever becomes compellingly alive or even psychologically distinct...
...sense, Tshombe is running alone. Except for President Joseph Kasavubu, who would hardly exchange the presidency for the insecure job of Premier, no other Congolese politician can project himself as a national figure. Two moderate regional leaders, Justin Bomboko and Elder Statesman Jean Bolikango, might like a crack at the premiership, but experts believe neither has enough votes to come close, and both will probably join a post-election coalition government with Tshombe...
...propriety of Senator Robert Kennedy's recent "Shirley Temple" performance before Senator Edward Long's Judiciary Subcommittee that disturbed Scott. He criticizes Kennedy in terms of a young upstart who has hurt his chances for advancement in the cantilevered power echelons of the Senate by antagonizing a powerful elder...
Brother Act. Christensen, 55, studied "fancy dancing and social deportment" as a child in Brigham, Utah. At the urging of a balletomane uncle, he and his two elder brothers, William and Harold, formed a dance team and toured the vaudeville circuit as "the Christensen Brothers." Then came a four-year tour of duty as an infantryman in World War II, and Lew returned to find himself too stiff-muscled to dance. He turned to choreography and in 1948 took over the reins of the San Francisco Ballet from his eldest brother William, who had headed the company for a decade...
...seemingly innocuous conversation marked a significant victory for the younger Bronfman, who looks something like Joseph Cotten did 20 years ago. He has long wanted to put out mixed drinks in the bottle; but Bronfman the elder argued that it was difficult or impossible to make a bottled cocktail taste as it should. Now Edgar says that Seagram has solved the problem: it has discovered methods of using fresh, whole-fruit juices instead of extracts, and of preventing the vermouth in the mixes from losing flavor...