Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...filibuster was the latest in a long string of indignities for Carter at the hands of a newly willful Congress. Younger and better educated than ever, legislators of both chambers have been roughing up Carter's appointees and rewriting his legislative packages. Four of the nine major parts of his energy program have been rejected at least temporarily, and most of the rest face trouble in the Senate...
...revolt in America, this time by the aged. The 1960s was the decade of aroused youth; the 1970s may well belong to their grandparents. Some 23 million Americans, about 10% of the population, are 65 or over. Numbers alone give them political clout, because they vote more consistently than younger groups. In addition, they have begun to organize with all the skill and determination of other embattled minorities. Such burgeoning pressure groups as the Gray Panthers, the National Council on the Aging, the National Association of Retired Federal Employees and the National Council of Senior Citizens have given their political...
...Chicago, eliminated mandatory retirement for his company when he was still in his 40s. He has no regrets. About 4% of his 12,000 employees are 65 or over, and the company says they perform just as well as, if not better than, their juniors. "The forgetfulness of a younger person is called absent-mindedness," says Gerald L. Maguire, director of corporate services for Bankers Life. "But when a person 70 years old forgets, it is called senility. However, we are tough about requiring a good day's work. We don't think the senior citizens want to be crutched...
...authors also want to explain the '60s to the younger generation, Weiner said...
...more importantly, there is the music. Noting with characteristic humor that "it is a feature of the violinist's career to burst abruptly into view...like Aphrodite washed ashore on Cyprus, beautifully complete, and often younger than she," Menuhin makes clear that his own career had less exciting origins. At two, his parents smuggled him into a matinee of the San Francisco Symphony; at four, unappeased by a toy violin ("this travesty of my longings enraged me"), he acquired his first instrument; by the time he was twenty he was an established master on both sides of the Atlantic...