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...BORROWED TIME. George C. Scott is back on Broadway as a quintessential foxy grandpa, all harmless cusswords and mock-fierce benevolence, in a sentimental 1938 comedy-drama about an old man's battle of wits with death. What a pity to waste his gifts on piffle...
...produced pretty much any show they want to appear in. One is George C. Scott, who last came to Broadway in 1986 as an aging, derelict Huck Finn in an unpopular bit of myth debunking called The Boys in Autumn. Now Scott is back as a quintessential foxy grandpa, all harmless cuss words and mock-fierce benevolence, in a sentimental 1938 comedy-drama about an old man's battle of wits with death, personified as the prissy bureaucrat Mr. Brink. Scott's new role may be at the opposite end of the emotional spectrum from his last, but it prompts...
...quite that way. No one will ever be able to say "why, I remember what Tom was doing that year. Hungary, wan't it? I'm not sure, I'll check his letters." No one will read your letters in 2091 and say, "So that's what great-grandpa Corny was doing in 1991. How weird. It's amazing how things have changed...
Especially in uncertain times, fear can quickly overtake fury. The folks back home develop warm feelings toward the legislator who sends out chatty newsletters (printed at government expense), who traces Grandpa's lost Social Security check (by turning the chore over to a government-paid assistant) and fights to keep the local airbase open (though it contributes nothing to the national defense...
...thinks they are going to die. But by spending time with the elderly, kids learn to accept the frailty of the aging while discovering their strengths. In one Pennsylvania program toddlers from a local day-care center spend time with Alzheimer's patients after being read such books as Grandpa Doesn't Know It's Me. Youngsters also learn that death is a natural component of life. Generations Together, for example, is developing a curriculum dealing with separation and loss. It will help children cope not only with an elder companion's demise but also with other issues, like their...