Word: elderly
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...Chaplin's acrobatics are accomplished with an athletic elegance too tough to be simply precious. Their son James Spencer Thierree, 17, also appears for some of the more elaborate routines and provides bicycle acrobatics of his own, thus making Le Cirque, in every sense, a family event. The elder Thierree has given due consideration to posterity. "With this title," he points out with typical logic, "we can very well continue touring after death...
...most measures, McCarthy seems to have strengths to draw on. Family and colleagues describe him as a fun-loving young man who was close to his parents and elder brother. "He's a born optimist, a fighter, with a huge zest for life," says his father Patrick. That description is echoed by former cellmate Brian Keenan, an Irishman who was released last year. Says Keenan: "He is the daftest, craziest man I ever met." And a marvelous mimic too: "I never knew if I was playing dominoes against Sigmund Freud or Peter Sellers. Without him I don't think...
...departure of Clifford, a venerated Democratic Party elder, and bank president Robert Altman, who also resigned, came after intense prodding by the Federal Reserve Board. The regulators have been seeking to restore public confidence in First American (assets: $11 billion), which has been plagued by troubled real estate loans in the Washington area. Last spring the Fed tapped former Republican Senator Charles Mathias of Maryland to head a committee of directors to oversee First American. While Clifford, 84, and law partner Altman, 44, retained their titles, investigators told TIME that the Mathias group gradually took over their duties. "It started...
...author. When I.J. Singer died in 1944, I.B. assumed the literary , role. But the elder brother had been a rationalist and a radical. The younger one was apolitical and haunted by "a God who speaks in deeds, not in words, and whose vocabulary is the universe." The biblical and supernatural tales of youth provided the underpinnings of his work. As Singer's rickety Yiddish typewriter chattered away, the ghettos of the Middle Ages rose up again, with a cast of erotic shtetl dwellers and phosphorescent imps. The Jews of 20th century Europe, consumed by the Nazi death camps, were granted...
...constitutional limitations on their Kings. Almost three centuries of the so-called Tatar Yoke, which ended around 1480, effectively walled off the country from foreign influences, an isolation continued as a matter of policy by the Czars and later the commissars. In the late 16th century, Giles Fletcher the Elder, English ambassador to the czarist court, wrote that Russians were "kept from traveling that they may learn nothing, nor see the fashions of other countries" -- an observation that would still have been accurate a few years ago. Even today a powerful Slavophile movement regards Western ways as incompatible with...