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Will Hussung, who had a less prominent role in the original 1953 production, is good as the octogenarian Giles Corey, one of the noblest figures in the Salem saga. Rather than plead guilty or innocent, Corey steadfastly remained mute, the only way under the law that he could insure his property would go to his sons. To force a plea out of him, heavy stones were piled on his chest. Saying only, "More weight," he died. (Corey and his brave death figure more prominently in Lyon Phelps' aforementioned dramatization...
Wielding his familiar giraffe-tail fly whisk, octogenarian Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta, 85, this week will welcome more than 3,000 delegates from 152 countries to Nairobi's Kenyatta Conference Center-a building that looks like a 350-ft.-tall hair curler. The occasion: the quadrennial meeting of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), a group set up in 1964 primarily to give poor countries a forum in which to air their economic problems. In its three previous gatherings, UNCTAD has produced an elephantine mass of paper but little of substance. UNCTAD IV, which will meet...
...every Mormon comes to Harvard and jumps into the full commitment that some Mormons here have made to the church. Some men, for example, decide against leaving on missions, although the present prophet and president of the Mormon church, octogenarian Spencer W. Kimball (Mormons say he is young for his job), declared recently that it is every Mormon man's duty to go on a mission. Dr. Chase N. Peterson '52, vice president for alumni affairs and development and current president of the university branch, never went on a mission. Two active Mormon seniors, Muliufi Hanneman and J. Arthur Jensen...
...split-personality film. Half of Harold and Maude--to be specific, Harold--is very funny and wildly macabre; the other half-Maude--is maudlin and soppily sentimental. Harold is a nineteen-year-old morto-phile who gets his mother's attention by faking suicide, and Maude is an octogenarian whose "love of life" is on the level of Rod McKuen and Hallmark greeting cards. --Paul K. Rowe...
Stout relishes such topical references; they are an octogenarian's way of exhibiting an elastic, contemporary mind. Indeed, a few years after entering his eighth decade he wrote a Jesuit priest friend, signing himself Rex Stout, S.J.-for "still jaunty." So is Wolfe, who this time even goes to jail and gets his license suspended rather than tell the police anything about his own highly personal family affair. When the master detective has finally cracked the case, he settles back to "read books, drink beer, discuss food...logomachize with Archie." He asks a listener, "Shall I iterate and reiterate...