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...master said she is looking forward to spending time with grandchildren who live near their Chicago home, while her husband is anticipating continued work on public opinion research funded by the National Science Foundation...
...saving time for his family, time he rarely had for them when he was traveling at least half the year. Each day becomes precious. "It doesn't make me feel any different, turning 75, than when I turned 45," he muses. "But when I see pictures of my 19 grandchildren and four great- grandchildren, I know some time has passed. I let days like that slip by and try to forget it. I'm not looking backward. I'm looking to the future...
...colleague, manages to think and talk about nothing but sex, to send a frisson of enigma and anticipation down every woman's spine, yet maintain his job as director of the design department of an important publishing house. Erna, Jane Louise's boss, spawns a brood of children and grandchildren, wears sensible tweeds, bakes cakes, attends P.T.A. meetings, and harbours a secret crush on Sven. The idealist secretary soullessly dates her high school sweetheart, and plans a lacey wedding. The country friends lead picture-perfect robust outdoor lives...
Their critics say that the Concord group's proposed cuts for retirees violate the trust of people who paid into Social Security and Medicare for years. The Concord argument rests strongly on a moral plea of its own: older Americans should not burden their children and grandchildren with the task of paying off the debt. Peterson likes to quote Thomas Jefferson's observation to James Madison that passing on debt to future generations is "swindling futurity." Is it possible to make seniors sit still for such talk? Perhaps it is. The sky didn't fall when Congress approved the Clinton...
...life I'm focusing on love, more intensely because of the probable but not inevitable brevity of my time. It's just the relationship with Jane [Kenyon] is better than ever, and then the grandchildren--but this is commonplace, I suppose, I also have a ninety-year-old mother who is of course going to die, but her mind is marvelous...