People who already save for their old age worry that they could be forced to cough up an additional £20,000 for care that they may never want.
Like Ms. Cogen, the actual hippies and their fellow travelers are of retirement age, worried more about Social Security than social change.
"The Whore's Child" abjures Russo's typical working-class settings and protagonists in favor of professors and writers caught in the drift of late middle age, worried about illness and physical decline and experiencing deep ambivalence about marriage.
Her innocent eroticism and joy made her the ultimate playmate for men in a postwar age worried about male feminisation, as warriors became husbands with the end of the war.
In these short stories the author of "Empire Falls," this year's Pulitzer Prize novel, abandons working-class settings and protagonists in favor of intellectuals caught in late middle age, worried about illness and ambivalent about marriage.
I, and probably many people my age, worry about these things.
Growing up in poverty with a mother who was ill, and a father who died, Dr. Border grappled with homelessness and, from a young age, worried that he would never be able to overcome the odds stacked against him.
Girls at this age worry about what people wear and if you make it look like you're the guy wearing green polo-shirts and beige pants she will try and break off any friendship or relationship you may have with her.
We ended up sat in a portable cabin for ages, worrying that we were going to be struck by lightning.
