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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relentless as the toll of the years may be, doctors still find it extremely difficult to generalize about when old age begins. By popular reckoning in the U.S., the watershed year is 65. Yet there is such variability in the human condition that it is scientifically impossible to select a single year as the turning point, even for small groups of people. As Author-Physician Leopold Bellak points out: "Some people who are chronologically 80 are biologically only 60. Their bones, eyes, ears, skin-even reflexes and blood pressure -may be those one expects in a 60-year-old." Complicating...
...accept the need to challenge the privileges of the very rich." Anti-Socialist demonstrations by Communist workers were denounced as a "provocation" by Gaston Defferre, the Socialist mayor of Marseille. Questioning the Communists' much-vaunted devotion to Western-style democracy, Defferre sardonically observed that they preferred "a popular democracy of the type Czechoslovakia has to endure." Angered by the attacks on him, Mitterrand complained at a Socialist meeting that the Communists had been "committing aggression against us nearly every day and accusing us of every sin in the world...
According to this theory, the Socialists will get about 30% of the popular vote, while the Communists will win about 20%. In light of Mitterrand's frequent assurances that the Socialists in power would "control" their Communist allies, some experts argue that Marchais and his colleagues have decided it would be better to stay in opposition than play second fiddle to the Socialists. Another theory is that the Communists fear a Mitterrand volte-face: once in office he would jettison Marchais and try to form a broader alliance with centrist parties headed by President Valery Giscard d'Estaing...
...vital school "leaving certificate," they will find it almost impossible to get a job in a skilled trade, even as an apprentice. West German authorities have established special schools offering remedial courses, but few of the foreign youngsters attend; to do so invites ridicule from their peers. Somewhat more popular have been the few day nurseries, play centers and youth clubs opened by the Berlin government...
...operatic heroines go, Ariadne is definitely not as sweet as Mimi, nor a resolute as Aida, nor as popular as either But composers from Monteverdi to Rich ard Strauss have invariably had a hard time resisting her charms. That is more than can be said for that noted male chauvinist Theseus, who simply dropped her off one day on a tiny Greek isle. Ariadne's latest operatic reincarnation might not be entirely to her liking either: she appears merely as the voice of a missing statue...