I had to laugh when I read Paula Span's comments on her father's cheapness ("Care in Old Age: Confronting the Inevitable," Generations, Jan . 21.
His third poetry volume, Lider fun der tsayt (1940; "Poems of the Age"), confronts recent political events in all their guises imagining, for example, the Nazis' march into Vienna.
The digital age confronts the writer with the tyranny of numbers: you can know instantly exactly how many books you did sell, just as Web sites can measure page views and Twitter can identify trending words.
By doing so, we gain lots of practice for living them when the challenges of old age confront us.
The so-called commonly known fact that a fabella ossifies at 3 years of age confronts the idea of an induced ossification with aging [ 6, 14].
Altidore apologists, of course, have always pointed to his age when confronted with these developmental accusations: the forward was just 18 when he was signed away from New York Red Bulls by La Liga side Villareal for about $10m, the largest fee ever paid for an MLS player, and not even 20 years old during the 2010 World Cup.
Blaine, ever more Zen than me, even at that young age, politely confronted the comedian and asked him to stop.
LaBelle pointed to Bobby Hines, who at age 15 confronted a suspected drug dealer in Detroit, believing he had stolen a coat.
Only 20 years separate the two drawings, but this dramatic new style reveals the evolution of an ageing artist confronted by a change of taste following the political upheavals in Florence.
The first teaser trailer for the film has arrived and shows an ageing Deckard confronted by Ryan Gosling's Officer K who appears to be on a similar hunt for replicants.
