In the olden world we would divide scientists between specialists and generalists.
At the same time, for those who think that in the olden days, men were condemned to suffer in stoic silence, BAM offers what is, for me, one of the great surprises in their indispensable Vincente Minnelli retrospective, "The Courtship of Eddie's Father," from 1963 (my capsule review is in the magazine this week).
It sounds as if you've tried to wrestle an apology from the old man about the olden days.
It's not as though it's the "olden days" when men were pressured to marry women they impregnated.
' " Ingri and Edgar D'Aulaire, European immigrants to the United States who co-authored many books after their marriage in 1925, retold the myths in a heightened, poetic language: "In olden times, when men still worshiped ugly idols, there lived in the land of Greece a folk of shepherds and herdsmen who cherished light and beauty," their book begins.
Today klippfisk is made in heated warehouses, but the Klippfisk Museum recalls the hard grind of "olden" days when men caught the fish while women and children spent painstaking hours laying them on the cliffs to dry.
Try your hand at cooking! Women used to cook a lot in olden days and men used to do the hunting.
It's a sweet story, illustrated alternately in gauzy color for the pictures of the girl and the old man, sepia-toned images for the olden days, bringing to mind not just a little bit "Godfather II".
Every morning, the old man goes to his office, and "comes home" for supper with the weary sense of blurred accomplishment the family recalled from olden times.
After all, in olden times all teachers were men, and either way, today, she said, xiansheng "has become a male thing.
Two winter drinks from the Olden Days, one for the active man, one for the sedentary, complete the ancient repertoire.
