Word: septuagenarian
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...interpreted as a reassertion of Soviet determination to compete vigorously with the U.S. and other adversaries and to sustain that competition, under a single leader, over a long time. That is the real signal in Gorbachev's age and in the prospect of his being around long after his septuagenarian comrades, not to mention a septuagenarian American President, have departed from the scene...
...people of Dobanday quickly discovered that their attackers did not make war by the gentlemanly rules favored by their imperial predecessors. "My uncle fought the British on the border after his father was killed by them in battle," recalls Haji Khan, a rheumy-eyed septuagenarian. "But the British did not kill old people, children and women; they would not aim their artillery at innocent people." The Communists, by contrast, massacred civilians. Worst of all, when government troops finally broke through to Dobanday, a Soviet adviser marched into the central mosque, tore up the Koran and put a torch...
Griffiths was elected Lieutenant Governor of Michigan in 1982. South Carolina Senator Ernest ("Fritz") Rollings, campaigning last fall for the Democratic nomination, often mentioned her as a potential running mate. The sprightly septuagenarian beams at the prospect of being on the ticket, and swats off suggestions that her age might be a handicap. "You could say the same thing about Ronald Reagan in 1980," she says. There are more serious minuses: as a Midwesterner, she would offer no geographic diversity to Minnesotan Walter Mondale; she has also criticized Gary Hart on the Chrysler bailout. But if she were tapped, says...
...other tales, just as it has been the setting for much of Fisher's own adult life. The collection's finest piece, The Oldest Man, is about an American woman's visit to a stern, mountainous region called the Massif Central, where a centenarian and his septuagenarian son have their ancestral home. As always, the author's observations of local landscape, weather, architecture and gastronomical specialties (in this case, Roquefort) are as keen and winning as her insights into her characters. Most engaging is the 100-year-old Pépé, who after meals recites...
...Reagan in Year 3. Right-wing columnists like Buchanan and William Safire hope that Reagan can reassert his mastery with a State of the Union speech this week that stoutly repeats his old stands. Then there is the Times's Scotty Reston, grandee of the press corps, a septuagenarian like Reagan, a man more bemusedly tolerant these days than alarmed. He thinks Reagan will compromise when he has to, as he has done before, and then will "probably announce with a smile . . . that he's going home to the sunshine in California at the end of his first...