Word: younger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says, "In his 40's a man has done pretty much what he was capable of doing. Most depressing, he knows that he will have to go on doing it with ever-brighter, ever-younger men nipping at his heels." It is precisely that self-imposed psychological impotence that lies behind T. S. Eliot's middle-age "hoo-ha's." The primary affliction of middle-age is the fear of taking a chance, sloughing off old, stultifying patterns and starting something new in the direction of self-fulfillment...
Muddling Through. As a girl, Luci often seemed the victim of a younger-sibling complex, which she assuaged with the usual attention-getting gambits of childhood and adolescence. It was not a conventional upbringing for either Luci or her older sister Lynda Bird, now 22, because of frequent separations from their parents. Throughout the "deprivileged" years, as the sisters call them, Father was in perpetual political motion in Washington and Texas while Mother had the family interests to mind; until Luci was eleven, even her school year was divided between Austin and Washington. Most summers she went to camp...
...part, if only by resolving to have the ceremony performed in the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception-largest Roman Catholic Church in the U.S.-the President's younger daughter opted automatically for pomp above privacy. No one has ever been married before in the great hilltop edifice in northeast Washington, with its mosaic domes, 30 satellite chapels and ornate, still-incomplete interior that has had to be cleared of scaffolding for the occasion. Actually, it is normal Catholic practice for a girl to be married in her own parish church; Luci's happens to be St. Matthew...
...diverse and diverting hallmarks of Luci Johnson. The bride-to-be is at once gay and fey and deeply religious. She displays Johnson traits in abundance: she is strong-willed and sensitive, voluble and introspective, fiercely loyal to her family yet irrepressibly independent. Lady Bird describes her younger daughter as both a "sprite" and a "philosopher." Lyndon Johnson once said: "I have known this little ruler all her life. She entered the world with a commanding voice and has been taking over ever since." Luci, who calls herself a "theatrical person" and a "romantic," says mysteriously: "I am a blue...
...median divorce age in the U.S. is 32. In the 40s and 50s, divorce is major surgery, and a man is reluctant to cut that much life out of his life. Besides, time sometimes taunts the older lover with the crudest of jests. Having roused the ardor of a younger woman, he may find himself no match for her physical demands and end up more ruefully conscious of his age than when he set out to refute...