When I got into the TV critic game more than a decade ago, back in the Elder Days, "The Sopranos," "Deadwood," "Lost," "Battlestar Galactica" were on the air.
No respect for their elders these days.
One memory has endured: when they visited the Shelburne Museum in Burlington, Vt., shortly after they were married, Mr. Newman said, they came upon a large cradle on the floor in which relatives eased their elders' final days.
"You don't have the obvious party elders these days," said Walter Isaacson, president of the Aspen Institute and co-author, with Evan Thomas, of "The Wise Men," a study of the post-World War II foreign policy establishment.
She spoke of their "really good Maasai friends" and recalled having "discussions with elders lasting days," about education, patriarchy, and the future of the Maasai people.
As in Iraq, the United States military has responded to bad news with counterinsurgency: eliminate troublemakers in the dark of night, with the most lethal arts, and befriend tribal elders by day, with cultural sensitivity and expertise.
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In 1980, the in-hospital average stay for elders was 10.7 days, while 29 years later it had decreased to only 5.5 days [ 5].
It started with both of my grandfathers, who were community elders, in the days before there were MPs.
Ideological opposition may have faded – these days, elders such as former president and prime minister Jiang Zemin and Zhu Rongji have their own record of reform – but in its place are powerful vested interests.
