Word: octogenarian
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...Incidentally--I am an unworthy member of the famous class of 1910. The old yard did look familiar. My old room in Hollis I was locked. This was on Wednesday, June 14. All the dormitories seemed to be locked so the so called "rest rooms" were unavailable. For an octogenarian, this was a problem...
...Little Tramp? Would they resurrect the old resentments at the leftish leanings and marital tangles that had led Attorney General James P. McGranery in 1952 to order him detained if he tried to re-enter the U.S.? Or would they merely show indifference at the appearance of another octogenarian has-been...
That this drab and peripheral institute should come to rival the Louvre as a shrine of French Impressionism seems inconceivable. But five years ago, an octogenarian named Michel Monet, driving back from a visit to his wife's grave in Normandy, collided with a truck and died. He was the son and only offspring of Claude Monet. When Monet père died in 1926, Michel inherited his collection and kept most of it in his secluded country house at Sorel-Moussel in Normandy. Nobody saw it for 40 years. Paintings were stuffed under beds, piled higgledy-piggledy...
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...