Word: septuagenarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slice of Harlem history costs just $12. Almost all major black entertainers played the Apollo, and many got their start at the Amateur Nights that have been held for 50 years. From the beginning, the host has been Ralph Cooper, who can still boogaloo and scooby-doo like a septuagenarian Michael Jackson...
...down to the gates to chat with fans and had fireworks fights with his buddies and relatives on the lawn. Today, whether they knew him or not, everyone on Graceland's staff, which grows to 450 during the summer season, refers to the singer by his first name. Elvis' septuagenarian uncle, Vester Presley, who once manned the gates, promotes his Southern cookbook in the record store called EP's LPs, and the aroma of down-home dinners still drifts through the house. The King's aunt Delta Biggs, 68, inhabits a downstairs suite and cooks for the night cleaning crew...
Smith keeps encountering that miracle on his pastoral wanderings. A septuagenarian lay preacher named Peter Mabuza, for example, welcomes him to his tiny township house and offers Coca-Cola and cookies, along with jocular tales of his youth, when his "baas" thrashed him for sitting on the bed of the baas' son while he helped the boy with his homework. "He t'rashed me again," Mabuza goes on, "when he caught me riding his son's bicycle instead of pushing it back from the railroad station...
...leaders who are planning to meet in Washington next month are already one of the great odd couples of history: Ronald Reagan, the septuagenarian American conservative with his high-noon view of the superpower competition, and Mikhail Gorbachev, the youthful Soviet reformer with his reassuring slogans about "new thinking" and "mutual security." If, as both hope, they hold a fourth summit before Reagan leaves office, perhaps in Moscow, they will have met more often than any of their predecessors. And if the intermediate- range nuclear forces treaty that they are about to sign leads to a strategic arms agreement next...
...wearied by the violent eddies and reversals that continue to mark their country's political life, profess scant interest in matters of state. "These things don't concern me," said a taxi driver in Tiananmen Square, where red banners flew in honor of the People's Congress. Concurred a septuagenarian scholar: "I really don't listen to this sort of thing any more." And a Peking intellectual added his own apolitical perspective: "My friends and I just gather together to eat and drink and make up jokes...