Word: pang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...takes up in its article on middle age, there's the fact that in the period there are frequently last grasps at youth. Middle-aged men in particular, TIME says, will sometimes see a couple of young lovers in the park or somewhere and feel an actual physical pang, or they divorce their wives of 20 years' standing and go leaping off into a new marriage with a secretary. But these are the exceptions. The average middle-ager sublimates, and instead of pinching his secretary, he buys a convertible or starts drinking more than he used to. Most...
...male has more sexual options. A kind of reverse Oedipal tide may run. Where he once craved his father's power, he may now covet his teen-ager son's potency. The sight of a young couple embracing in the park stabs him with a pang of envy. Meanwhile, he mercilessly scrutinizes every sag, bulge, and wrinkle that makes his wife unappetizing. In The Revolt of the Middle-Aged Man, Dr. Edmund Bergler records the rebel's plaint: "I want happiness, love, approval, admiration, sex, youth. All this is denied me in this stale marriage...
...Daily warned last spring that China's enemies were pinning their hopes on the "deterioration of the younger generation," and that concern for "seniority" in promoting officials was "backward, clannish, feudal thinking." When the Communist Youth League met a few weeks later, its first secretary, Hu Yao-pang, 51, was reelected, but 144 of its 178 committee members were replaced...
...really cannot imagine how pleasant it is for an Indonesia-born Dutchman to read such rare names as Kambing Masak Bugis and Ajam Pang-gang-two of the many, many delicious foods of Indonesia...
...Denmark's beautiful small building of latticed woods and spacious glass, a superb Danish smorgasbord is served for $6 a person. Sweden presents its own excellent smorgasbord for the same price. At the Indonesia pavilion, the Kambing Masak Bugis and Ajam Pang-gang cost $6.50. From Mexico (Came Asada Tampiquena, $7) to India (Chicken Masala Jaipure, $5.75), the fair abounds in places where one can eat well and pay well...