Word: retiree
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lance is a writer; as he puts it, he and Barbara "came out of retirement" for several weeks this summer to make some money. In the middle of August, when they'd made enough, they went back into retirement. One of his friends describes Lance's personal philosophy of labor...
Nothing's really changed. The smell's the same, the guys still run stadiums after coming in half-dead from the river, and freshman coxswains still rack up about one shell a year. Anyone complaining about the rapid changes at Harvard can retire to Newell Boat House and find stability...
She said women will be the "crucial element in the social revolution." After it is over, she hopes, maybe "we can retire sex from the arena of polities."
That has turned out to be a mild understatement. Segal has made enough money from the book, which has been translated into 20 languages thus far, to retire "several times over."
George Washington University's most noted faculty member is Earl Warren, 79, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, who will hold six seminars a term. Teacher Warren will accept no salary, but expects a large payoff in fun. "I like to visit with young people," he said enthusiastically...