(In 1895, the school was renamed the Emma Willard School in honor of its founder, and Stanton, spurred by her respect for Willard and despite her growing infirmities, was a keynote speaker at this event).
Inevitably, old age and an acute awareness of the passing of time and growing bodily infirmity make up a large part of it.
But in the past year, the couple's growing medical infirmities had begun to control their lives.
Set in the later years of the artist's life, from 1828 onwards, Leigh's film follows Turner through the denial of his daughters and the loss of his father (a wonderfully touching and tender performance by Paul Jesson) to the discovery of new life and love amid growing sickness and infirmity.
But the anxiety he was mired in in the summer of 2006 seemed deeper than what might be expected from financial or professional insecurity, or the infirmities of growing old, or even the aftermath of a busted marriage — his fourth.
The case, brought by a coalition of lawyers for the poor, argues that many refugees here have been caught short by the deadline because of growing backlogs in naturalization since the terror attacks of September 2001, and infirmities of age and illness that prevented them from taking the citizenship test.
Today's dreams, such as growing new limbs, a comprehensive cure for cancer, Alzheimer's and other infirmities that come with old age, are lacking (as are hassle-free hospitals).We can measure progress when the sumptuous luxuries of yesterday's rich become the common necessities of today's poor.
As the president of the Massapequa Philharmonic Orchestra and the keeper of our mailing list of approximately 2,000, I can tell you that the list is barely growing, maybe 20 a year, and the graying audience is dwindling rapidly, due to death and infirmity, and not being replaced by younger adults.
The President was careful not to name names and only mentioned the controversial DAP in passing, with the implicit causal assertion that any legal infirmity of the DAP will impede the country's prospects in sustaining Asia's second fastest growing economy.
