Word: sixtieth
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...sixtieth year she took the post of Director of the American observatory at Fontainebleau, outside Paris. There every summer she continues to hold court. During the year when she is not traveling, she stilling cupies her large apartment on Ballu...
There a young Harvard student named Aaron Copland knocked on the door and was admitted. In a book published on his sixtieth birthday, he recollects: "In my own mind she was a continuing link in that long tradition of the French intellectual woman. . . . Nadia Boulanger had her own salon where musical aesthetics were argued and the musical future engendered." Other Harvard students came--Walter Piston and Randall Thomson. For talk there were Satie, Cocteau, and Stravinsky. Copland recalls that Mlle. Boulanger "was particularly intrigued by new musical developments. . . . Nothing under the head- ing of music could possibly be thought...
Theatre East (Sixtieth Street near Third Avenue) is a cramped basement whose very slightly claustrophobic atmosphere reinforces the mood of the play, which is given in three-sided arena style with the audience close upon it. The arena arrangement strengthens the claustrophobic feeling, and Jack Youngerman's stark set does nothing to dissipate...
...disease in its most benign form, "indolence." For Etienne, every day passes like every other, leaving him untouched, unchanged, unmoved, like a man asleep. His foster father Jacob, with whom Etienne lives, has spent his time observing life with such quiet detachment that he has "reached his sixtieth year without ever having had a serious illness or an enduring sorrow." Vigorous pioneers built the home of Jacob and Etienne, but in four generations the family has "shrunk to two quiet bachelors...
...Employers and trade unions should face that fact without delay . . . Raising the usual retirement age from 65 to 70 . . . would probably increase by at least a million the number of persons between 65 and 70 years of age who are at work. These persons would add nearly one-sixtieth to the national product-in other words, they would increase it by almost $4 billion a year. The whole community would benefit from this additional output...