Word: septuagenarian
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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...
...same white horse that tourists can see in Rivera's mural in the National Palace. A novelist has more trouble than the makers of film epics. In this case, Fuentes has had to package the whole corpus of Mexican history into the dying body of a septuagenarian symbol named Artemio Cruz...
...same vein, the septuagenarian publisher described his experiences with such authors as Thomas Mann and Willa Cather. He told of a college professor who wrote about a Montana river that was "like a navel cord" and "waterways that really brought forth men and women." He talked about Kahill Gibran, who wrote The Prophet, Knopf's best-selling book, which only began to drop in sales when Knopf started advertising...