Word: frailer
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...improvement in the condition of America's senior citizens, there is a sharp divide between the vigorous "young old," those 65 to 75, and the far frailer "old old," those 75 and up. There also remain grave disparities among ethnic groups. Nearly a third of elderly blacks live on less than $5,300 a year. Among black women living alone, the figure is 55%. For all the creative thinking on Madison Avenue and in corporate boardrooms on how to make use of the elderly as a resource, there still needs to be a comparable response from Washington when the aged...
...foreign policy. He will have a tough time keeping his smile when he has to rely on the Grenada invasion for 90 minutes as his sole foreign policy success. He could do little to defend his economic program-considered his strongest point. He will look even older and frailer when he has to answere for the first time in public, for three Lebanon bombings, his absurd nuclear posture toward the Soviet Union, his inability to assert American influence over anything larger than a golf course, and what amounts to terrorist activity in Nicaragua...
Limping from a fall four years ago and suffering from a chronic back ailment, Karajan looks far frailer than he did on his previous U.S. appearance: a small, fragile man with a shock of swept-back white hair who pulls himself up to the podium with difficulty. But his command of the orchestra has never been surer, nor his conducting so infused with the wisdom that comes with age. After a century of excellence, the Berlin Philharmonic shows no signs of advancing years, only greater maturity. -By Michael Walsh
Prophecy was not one of Maugham's interests. He was an unblinking realist, a doctor who narrowed his vision to examine the frailer aspects of human nature. He fortified himself against fickleness and changing fashions with wealth, influential acquaintances and property; he veiled his own nature, lied to biographers and journalists, manipulated friends and paid for affection. His long career now seems part of geology, with its upthrusts, weatherings and glaciations...