Word: sureness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both of the front runners, to be sure, could suffer some embarrassments before their parties hold nominating conventions in July and August. As the near certainty of the final outcome sinks in, many voters who object to such a result could coalesce behind the leaders' major opponents. There was a distant possibility that Ted Kennedy could benefit from such sentiment by pushing Carter harder than expected in this week's New York primary and later in the District of Columbia or Rhode Island. It was more likely that John Anderson could jostle Reagan in a primary here...
...friends believe that nuclear power still has a future, and even many antinuclear people in the area acknowledge that they are probably correct. To be sure, there is stubborn opposition to reopening the disabled and discredited Unit 2 when the cleanup is over. Met-Ed estimates it will take at least three years (federal authorities put the figure closer to five). But Middletowners are resigned to the fact that the company will probably start up the nuclear reactor in Unit 1 some time around the end of the year. Unit 1, which was undamaged by the accident in its sister...
...South and elsewhere should spark a brief moment of nonpartisan cheer among the nation's senior citizens. After all, the 69-year-old candidate did triumph at least briefly over the suspicion that anybody past middle age is a candidate for nothing but the pasture. To be sure, the issue of Reagan's age is not typical. It does make sense for voters to take a cold, actuarial look at anybody seeking the White House. But the more prevalent American way of judging the elderly is something else again...
...into it whether looking for a job, going to doctors (some of whom speak of the elderly as "old crocks") or just trying to enjoy existence. Americans, true, routinely honor older people for their supposed wisdom, but mainly in folklore. In reality, even though nobody can say for sure when old age begins, society is vaguely terrified of it and mystified by it. The result is that many older people wind up feeling that society would prefer them out of sight. And the increasing segregation of senior citizens in homogeneous retirement towns and nursing homes hints that this may often...
...productive life. Such was the meaning of the Social Security and retirement policies that began to roll forth in 1933. The message: 65 and out. While mandatory retirement has recently been relaxed, with the age advanced to 70, popular thinking still falsely tends to take age as a sure index of vitality. The stereotype of an old person as a doddering, drooling, irrelevant nuisance is much circulated. Beyond some uncertain year, people are often regarded as having little or no need for earthly pleasures, particularly sexual ones. Says Myrna Lewis, co-author of Sex After Sixty: "Children carry a double...