Word: septuagenarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decade, Duchamp and his second wife, Alexina ("Teeny"), nowadays play once a week at New York's London Terrace Chess Club. "Breathing is my prime occupation," he declares with a twinkle. "I am a respirateur." He is content to be a wry and impish commentator, and from his septuagenarian's viewpoint, he sees much to cheer...
...votes in a hangar at Logan Airport, then did away with the ballots to preserve the secrecy the architects demanded.) They had agreed, with the six foreigners among them vigorously concurring, that the architect should be an American. Almost everyone listed Mies van der Rohe, the German-born septuagenarian who is generally looked upon (along with LeCorbusier and the late Frank Lloyd Wright) as one of the three greatest architects of the 20th century. Most of the selections also included Warnecke, because of his association with the President. There were several votes for a corporation, the giant firm of Skidmore...
Bernays, the septuagenarian founder of modern public relations, attributed the MDC's caution to the widespread public support for his anti-underpass position...
...typical Harvard man is a nonexistent breed. New Yorkers never bother. The typical is not a category relevant to New York. No one bats an evelash at a drunk urinating from a Bleeker Street window; a made up queen, in St. Mark's Place, with waist length hair; a septuagenarian in Washington Heights who dresses in colonial garb...
...Salty Septuagenarian. At 78, Hugo Black has served on the Court for 27 years under five Presidents, been Senior Justice for no less than 19 years. Justices Brennan, Goldberg, Stewart and White are young enough to be his sons. But there has yet to be any serious talk of Black's retiring. He is a wiry little man of boundless energy who plays ferocious tennis almost every day, sometimes four hours at a time. His blue-green eyes sparkle with the light of a mind still aggressive in the pursuit of learning. No other Justice has less formal education...