Word: septuagenarian
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...hard to imagine a less threatening adversary than septuagenarian diet doc Robert Atkins. On the other hand, if you're Dean Ornish, who exists on an ultra-low-fat regimen that includes robust foods like carrots and lettuce, a gray-haired meat chomper probably looks pretty intimidating. Ornish and Atkins were together in Washington Thursday, joined by numerous other diet "gurus" for the government-sponsored "Great Nutrition Debate." Accusations of quackery were exchanged freely between the panelists, whose weight-loss prescriptions range from Atkins' all-protein pork-and-beef fest to John McDougall's Asian rice plan. The only thing...
This latest stylistic achievement of the septuagenarian Ashbery can in no way be misidentified as "autumnal," as a recent review in the Kirkus Review put it. Rather, it is a fresh voice from a master of contemporary avant-garde poetry, who has capitalized on the current trend toward the acceptance of a broader definition of free form verse...
...This latest stylistic achievement of the septuagenarian Ashbery can in no way be identified as "autumnal," as a recent review in the Kirkus Review...
...after working unsuccessfully for nine months to acquire the likes of former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell and septuagenarian-astronaut and Ohio senator John Glenn, the committee tapped Simpson, a visiting lecturer and Eliot House resident, to deliver the June 9 address...
DIED. JOAN HICKSON, 92, British character actress; in Colchester, England. Hickson, whose career on the stage and screen began in 1927, won international fame in 1984 as a septuagenarian--TV's sharp-witted sleuth Miss Jane Marple, in the BBC series Mystery! Queen Elizabeth II, a devoted fan of Hickson, awarded her the Order of the British Empire...