Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to the semilegendary Hippocrates, father of Western medicine, writing 600 years after David, the oldster's lot was not a happy one: "Old men suffer from difficulty of breathing, catarrh accompanied by coughing, difficult micturition, pains at the joints, kidney disease, dizziness, apoplexy, cachexia [wasting], pruritus [itching] of the whole body, sleeplessness, watery discharges from bowels, eyes and nostrils, dullness of sight, cataract, hardness of hearing...
...though far from typical, may contain clues, for the observant gerontologist, to the secret of a long and useful existence. The first factor in Stagg's favor-though not to the same degree as in the case of some of his near peers-is heredity. Stagg's father, a cobbler who lived in West Orange, N.J., lived to be 73, his mother...
...athletics-most of my exercise came from hard work, and I had plenty of that." He got much of it in the form of odd jobs, for as much as 25? an hour (a princely sum for a boy during the presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes), plus helping his father to mow and cradle hay in the summer...
...plugged away at his movie project whenever he had a day off from his paying job. After about a year and a half of Sunday shooting, he persuaded the West Bengali provincial government to finance the production as a sort of animated travel poster. A year later Father Panchali was in the can. But when the members of the provincial government saw the picture, they were badly shaken. They had put up the better part of the production cost ($38,640) for a travelogue, and what was this peculiar thing they...
Pather Panchali-English translation: The Lament of the Path-tells a tragedy of family life in a small village. The family-every member of which is unforgettably portrayed in the most natural style imaginable-is Brahman. The father is a priest, a decent, impractical man, "bursting with ideas for plays" and poems" that he never publishes, making what money he can as a rent collector. The mother is a sensible, hard-working homemaker, warmhearted but hard pressed to make ends meet. It is difficult enough to keep the children, a schoolboy named Apu and a teen-age girl named Durga...