Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sign is the tendency of young families with children--both graduate students and upper middle-class families--to move outside of Cambridge." Mrs. Wheeler said, "The only people left to bridge the gap are young people with no feeling of responsibility and older, retired people...
...with a nostalgic birthday review (lantern slides and ancient recordings assembled by the Metropolitan Opera Guild) of some of its finest achievements. The yellow brick house was built (in 1883) at a cost of $1,732,478.71, principally as a showcase for New York society (the impresario of the older, posher Academy of Music referred to it as "the yellow brewery on Broadway"). The architect, Josiah Cleaveland Cady, had never seen a grand opera, and he built the Met on the theory that its most important feature was not the stage but the boxes. At first, there were three tiers...
...could offer the younger generation any advice, I would say: Never think of your car as a cold engine but as a hot-blooded horse, racing together with the rider like one beautiful harmonious unit. As for me, the rider has grown older and more blasé than the horse...
...latest set of apprehensive elders to make a study of U.S. college youth last week turned in a surprisingly optimistic report: the average student today is older, brighter and more serious than in past years, and the average college must hustle to keep up with the change. The report, They Come for the Best of Reasons, written by Columbia University Professor W. Max Wise for a panel of educators sponsored by the American Council on Education, sifts views and statistics on the present college generation. Highlights...
...only 55% of undergraduates was of traditional college age, 18-21. The proportion of older students has grown fast, to about 40%. More students each year-29% of men, 10% of women at last count-are married. Four students out of ten earn more than half their college expenses, about twice the pre-World War II number...