Word: mid-40s
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Psychoanalysts argue that both sexes enter a sort of second adolescence in the mid-40s, but the male has more sexual options. A kind of reverse Oedipal tide may run. Where he once craved his father's power, he may now covet his teen-ager son's potency. The sight of a young couple embracing in the park stabs him with a pang of envy. Meanwhile, he mercilessly scrutinizes every sag, bulge, and wrinkle that makes his wife unappetizing. In The Revolt of the Middle-Aged Man, Dr. Edmund Bergler records the rebel's plaint: "I want...
...center's ultimate goal is a multimillion-dollar program aimed at improving literacy and job skills among the chronically unemployed. Farmer's war on poverty - he calls it "my brainchild" - will concentrate on the most difficult hard core cases, men between their mid-20s and mid-40s...
...attend the courses are mostly in their mid-40s, earn an average income of $27,000. It costs a company $2,000, plus expenses and salary, to enroll an executive, and the gold "sign of Hermes" tie tack presented to graduates has come to rank with the private ice-water carafe as a status symbol back at the home office. Though some participants never really break away from their desks for the six-week period and try to run things back at headquarters with flurries of long-distance telephone calls, most men-flattered at being chosen-drop everything to take...
...fund investors (3,000,000) is greater than the adult population of Chicago, and the value of their holdings ($21 billion in 6,000,000 accounts) exceeds the gross nation al product of Australia. The typical mutual fund buyer, reports the SEC, is a high school graduate in his mid-40s, who is married, has two children, and earns...
...Bowl's Carmen. He takes as many as five lessons each week, is now being trained by Strelitzer to sing all of Wagner's bass roles. Oliver insists that he will not turn professional. But he knows that most bassos do not reach their peak until their mid-40s and admits that the idea is attractive. Says he: "There is a great temptation when you have that feeling of raw power over an audience...