Word: spans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matter what a man does for a living, getting old may come to him one day as a terrible shock, Manhattan Geriatrist Martin Gumpert, 51, told the gerontologists. "The recognition of aging," Gumpert explained, "is perhaps the most profound shock of our life span-next to dying." He advised patients to develop intellectual curiosity and independence, and "a well-cultivated faculty of giving up the old and assimilating the new." Doctors, Gumpert said, should treat the "shock" of aging as carefully as any other form of shock. A patient who is getting on should be made to understand that...
...reason for the increase is obvious, Dr. Guthrie believes: "As the span of life increases, more people reach the senile period . . . The incidence of illness increases anyway with the aging process, and mental illness is one of them." Another factor is the growth of cities. "City dwellers can't tolerate little aberrations [among members of their families] as well as country people." City life, too, is more complicated for the mentally ill. (A Guthrie example: "A shepherd in Wyoming might be as schizophrenic as can be. He wouldn't last five minutes in Times Square...
...first, the roads were good. Domingo purred along at a comfortable 70 m.p.h. Before reaching Caracas - about 6,000 miles away - the field had to grind up the mighty Andes, race across Bolivia's lofty Altiplano (plateau), span desert land, plunge through an equatorial jungle. For the next 18 days, nobody heard much about the fat undertaker...
...stage, as well as off, Tallulah Bankhead mugs, flings, shouts and croaks her boisterous way through an outrageously florid, outrageously amusing imitation of Tallulah Bankhead. Many a mediocre play has been dragged beyond its deserved life span by Tallulah's gaudy brilliance, but this time she has turned one into a smash hit singlehanded...
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