Word: reasonlies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Production workers, in particular, are expected to continue laying down their wrenches and torches as soon as they can, for an understandable reason: the labor is physically wearing. The Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers union has fought hard to negotiate pension plans specifying a "normal" retirement age of 60, and that is the actual average age of its members who retire...
...fide" executives and people in "high policy-making positions," provided they have served in those jobs for at least two years and qualify for pensions and other retirement benefits totaling $27,000 a year.* And most companies will indeed compel executives to retire at 65. Their stated and valid reason is that new blood and new ideas are especially vital at the top. An unspoken but powerful reason is that every board member dreads telling a 65-year-old chairman: "Joe, you just can't cut it any more." It is much easier to say: "Joe, we would love...
About the only vexing problem will be dealing with the employee who wants to keep working after 65 but is failing to do the job. Under the law, he or she can be retired but can then sue, claiming that age was the only reason for the dismissal; the employer will then have to convince a jury that other factors were involved. As a result, bosses are planning to keep a closer watch on their older workers. Paradoxically, they may warn, demote or even talk into early retirement a 63-year-old, say, who is slipping. In the past...
...part mystery (What happened to Birdy?). It is also an extended memoir of growing up poor in the 1930s, a detailed portrait of a friendship as firm as it is unlikely and an utterly plausible account of an unbelievable obsession. In classical mythology, Daedalus made wings for a practical reason, so that he and his son could escape the labyrinth. Birdy, it turns out, has built wings too, but craved much more. In his cage, he remembers: "I'm also finding it isn't so much the flying I want, not as a boy flapping heavy wings...
...room for humility." The humbling failure of scientists to predict surely either the course of nature (as in the weather) or cultural dynamics (as in economic and social change) may be one factor that licenses the numberless irrational prophets who proliferate in today's age of ostensible reason...