Word: septuagenarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proved deadly, the reasoning of the ancients seems to run. there is reason to hope that wrongdoing may even be healthful. So they tyrannize each other, gloat over signs of decrepitude in contemporaries, stir the ashes and the urns of old loves with gossip. One septuagenarian lady runs a profitable blackmailing business, and an old eccentric whose blood is still faintly warm manages, at 87, to be more venereous than venerable; he pays cash for the titillating sight of gartered female legs. Most outrageous: ah amateur geriatrician, himself 79, who gathers data by digging up bad news, mailing...
...brilliant re-creator of Mark Twain as a septuagenarian platform lecturer is 34-year-old Hal Holbrook making his New York stage debut. An avid Twain buff since college days, TV Actor (Grayling Dennis on the CBS serial The Brighter Day, for six years) Holbrook has expertly culled Twain's speeches, autobiography and stories for his program. What emerges is no mellow dodderer, but a caustic sage brimming with skeptic laughter...
Everyone was aware of the burdens a septuagenarian was shouldering. The Pope's doctor, Paolo Venchierutti, has announced that the somewhat overweight Pontiff (205 Ibs.) "has a robust stamina unweakened by the years." He generally sleeps no more than six hours a night-retiring at 10 and rising at 4. But however strong his body and short his sleep, the problems that confront his reign are a formidable legacy...
...vigorous septuagenarian, Perse calls Seamarks "my last song." Yet he still intends to write his memoirs ("I have been trusted with many secrets which not even the Foreign Ministers knew about"), and he would like to do a book about the U.S., drawing on the notebooks he kept in travels from Maine to Arizona. Reserved, aristocratic, a grey eminence both in diplomacy and letters, St.-John Perse has always cherished what was "beyond time, not of it." His poetry reflects this quality of timelessness and universality...
Cocktail Time shows that though now (to use his own words) "a spavined septuagenarian," P. G. Wodehouse still has more to offer than most unspavined zanies of younger generations...