Word: octogenarians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some degree with Walter's ageless enthusiasm. At one point during the rehearsal of the Third Symphony, he exhorted the strings to greater effort, rewarded them with an ecstatic cry: "There you are! And it's paradise! Such a pianissimo! Oh, to be in paradise!" Then Octogenarian Walter paused. "No," he added, "not too soon...
...world's statesmen none is more famed for steely determination than Konrad Adenauer, the autocratic octogenarian who has ruled West Germany for the past ten years. When Adenauer two months ago decided to turn the West German chancellorship over to a younger man, his countrymen assumed that that was that. But last week there was colossal confusion as the world learned that Adenauer, too, can change his mind. See FOREIGN NEWS, An Old Man's Impulse...
Mother Advocate is back! Her complexion somehow freshening in the spring sun, her wheel-chair gliding effortlessly as if oiled by vernal juices, she sits serenely by various newsstands in the Square, happily disproving the pessimists who bet this doughty octogenarian would never live the winter through...
...fort, Mother worries--worries that her husband will be gypped in the big city, that daughter Durga is stealing necklaces from the neighbors, that son Apu is getting neither enough to eat nor enough to read. Rounding out the family is Old Auntie, who must be at least an octogenarian...
...create his windows for Metz Cathedral, installed earlier this year, Octogenarian Jacques Villon had all the elements available to the glassmasters of 13th century Chartres, and more. The soft radiance of medieval glass, coming from imperfections that fractured the light, was duplicated by hand craftsmanship. The gothic spectrum was expanded by modern chemistry to include an endless range of intermediate tones. But the laborious process of cutting glass to the pattern of the cartoon, painting in details with an enamel of metallic oxides and ground glass, baking it, and finally assembling it with strips of lead is almost unchanged. Villon...