Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington. Most summers she went to camp in Texas. Always striving to be grown up, always "eleven going on 16," as a contemporary puts it, she changed the y in her first name to i for no apparent reason years ago, got mediocre grades in school until a sight problem was discovered and treated, muddled capriciously through the difficult years...
...scheduled until both sides' lawyers agree that they are prepared to be present in the courtroom. At that point, the lawyers sign a "certificate of readiness" and a later memorandum fully describing the case, asserting that all pretrial motions have been made, swearing that no settlement is in sight, and estimating precisely how long the trial will take...
...knows at 50 that he did not know at 20 boils down to something like this: the knowledge that he has acquired with age is not the knowledge of formulas, or forms of words, but of people, places, actions-a knowledge not gained by words but by touch, sight, sound, victories, failures, sleeplessness, devotion, love-the human experiences and emotions of this earth; and perhaps, too, a little faith and a little reverence for the things you cannot...
...married Jason Robards, a splendid actor and the most sensitive interpreter of O'Neill characters on the U.S. stage. A few years ago, while not yet middleaged, she found herself drifting into the crisis of purposelessness that afflicts many women in their middle years: "I lost sight of myself as a woman, as an actress-even in my friendships I was neglectful. I knew I wasn't functioning well. I became rundown physically. When you have the responsibility of a husband and children, you also have a responsibility to yourself. If you neglect yourself, you actually are neglecting...
...that both sexes enter a sort of second adolescence in the mid-40s, but the male has more sexual options. A kind of reverse Oedipal tide may run. Where he once craved his father's power, he may now covet his teen-ager son's potency. The sight of a young couple embracing in the park stabs him with a pang of envy. Meanwhile, he mercilessly scrutinizes every sag, bulge, and wrinkle that makes his wife unappetizing. In The Revolt of the Middle-Aged Man, Dr. Edmund Bergler records the rebel's plaint: "I want happiness, love...