Word: greybeard
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...then after that, about a year later, Flow had her infant Flint and just after he was able to walk she actually allowed him to come up and reach out and touch my nose. And the third one was about that same time. I was following David Greybeard, who was the first to lose his fear of humans, and I thought I had lost him. I was going through a thick tangle and I found him sitting, waiting—at least it seemed he was waiting. I picked up a palm nut lying on the ground, which they love...
...alike - grant each of us oodles of life lessons to pass on to that foolish, fresh-faced younger generation. Or so we think. Author Henry Alford embarked upon a journey to discover whether this is actually true, interviewing scores of people - some celebrities like playwright Edward Albee and literary greybeard Harold Bloom, others just plain ole old folks, such as the 75-year old Katrina survivor whose story brings the author to tears. Along the way, Alford's 79-year-old mother gets involved when she decides to divorce her husband and strike out anew. (See pictures of the world...
...Irish Rebellion while playing a round at Leith, but the legend of Hagen's verve and reckless gamesmanship has managed to bridge the years and has found its way to Bartlett. Although Hagen died in 1969, slumped in the corner of Rochester's ramshackle caddy pen sits a greybeard who Bartlett says "used to caddy for Hagen in his heyday...
There are flaws. Richard, for instance, is meant to be a bright and appealing 11-year-old boy, but he sometimes sounds like a greybeard. "That's an ancient philosophical problem," he says to Joey in response to the latter's observation that "the ideal and the real" are hard to reconcile. Joey's mother deserves a larger setting than the author has given her. She is a marvelous, angular, slightly awesome old woman who is held together by the negative and negating force of her character...
Stowaway in the Sky will enchant moppet, matron and greybeard with its bal-loonist's-eye view of the fair land of France...