Word: octogenarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WATCHING an amateur performance of the St. Matthew Passion is like watching an octogenarian make love; the wonder is not so much how well it's done, as the fact that it gets done at all. The Harvard Glee Club-Radcliffe Choral Society production of the Passion last Saturday night, then, was doubly a wonder, since it was both done and done well...
...Father, Author Robert Anderson's self-indulgent adaptation of his self-indulgent Broadway play. Director Gilbert Gates moves Anderson's characters with soap-opera mawkishness through father-son conflicts that are no less tiresome for their undeniable reality. Tom Garrison (Melvyn Douglas) is a Westchester County octogenarian Babbitt who fulminates against "some damned savage who will walk off with the luggage" at Kennedy Airport and complains to a fellow Rotarian about "some bozo who has been crowding into our pew at church." As a child he worshiped his mother and despised his father; naturally his middle-aged...
...carve out their own various niches. The noblest role, of course, is an affirmative one - quite simply to demonstrate how to live and how to die. If the aged have any responsibility, it is to show the next generation how to face :he ultimate concerns. As Octogenarian Scott-Maxwell puts it: "Age is an intense and varied experience, almost beyond our capacity at times, but something to be carried high. If it is a long defeat, it is also a victory, meaningful for the initiates of time, if not for those who have come less...