Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Where Cockroaches Abound." Chris Herter tried to join the Army in 1917, but was turned down for being too tall and too skinny, instead took the Foreign Service exams. On the day he was notified that he had passed, he learned that his brother Everit, one year older, had been killed by German shrapnel. In his grief, Christian Herter (who is convinced that his brother would have been a great painter if he had lived) resolved somehow to spend his life working toward the cause of world peace...
...magazine, and served as secretary of the Oxford Union, "a sort of large-scale debating society." He had gone up to Oxford at the age of eighteen, at the close of World War II, a period when the University was largely dominated by returning veterans, many of them years older than he. "One had to in a sense work harder, because of the generation gap... And that I think was invaluable. One couldn't just get off a few flip epigrams and hope to make a reputation for oneself--one had to do some hard thinking...
Willie's world is designed for the three-to seven-year-old child. Older fans are welcome, but mostly as reading aides and accompanists for the songs. Artist Friedman deliberately draws Willie and his pals -Silly Sue, Moisevitch the Lion, Candy Cow, who gives striped peppermint milk -with a simplicity that his followers can copy. Willie's adventures are unsullied by the usual comic staples of crime, violence and disrespect to elders...
Last week in Japan, at the end of its tour, the Little Orchestra played still another Cowell gift to the Orient: a two-movement piece with a "Japanese feel" titled Ongaku. Strongly flavored with the haunting sonorities of early Japanese court music, Ongaku was a success with the older members of the audience, but left some of the younger ones, whose musical diet is increasingly Western, faintly puzzled. Said one: "Frankly, it's too Japanese for us; it's a bit over our heads...
...Mine Enemy Grows Older, King...