Features: Sunday Comment: The facts of being fifty

The Sunday Telegraph London | July 9, 2000| | Copyright

WHEN a friend invited me to his 50th birthday party, I was, of course, delighted - we fifty-somethings are grateful to be included in celebrations. He added that he was surprised by the impact being 50 was making on him.

For the lucky generation born after the war it is somehow shocking to reach 50. It is not new to be shocked - Andre Maurois wrote about the trauma of turning 50 in 1938 - but it still seems new, and shocking, to the generation who feel they invented youth culture, who came of age, or were teenagers, in the Sixties, who wore mini-skirts and smoked dope and sported lapel ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

	Tony Pastor, father of vaudeville.(Brief Article)(Book Review) Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News ; 9780786430543 Tony Pastor, father of vaudeville. Fields, Armond. McFarland & Co...Hardcover ML429 This biography traces the life and theater career of Tony Pastor (1837-1908), who was a variety and vaudeville songwriter, performer...
	TONY PERKINS, PRESIDENT, FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL, THE REVEREND JERRY FALWELL, LIBERTY UNIVERSITY, AND THE REVEREND HEBERT LUSK, HOST PASTOR, JUSTICE SUNDAY III, HOLD A NEWS TELECONFERENCE ON JUDGE SAMUEL ALITO'S NOMINATION TO THE SUPREME COURT News Wire article from: Political Transcript Wire ; ...COMMUNICATIONS, FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL TONY PERKINS, PRESIDENT, FAMILY...REVEREND HERBERT LUSK, HOST PASTOR, JUSTICE SUNDAY III [] URIBE...the Family Research Council, Tony* Perkins. And joining us is...Greater Access Baptist Church. Tony Perkins, president of Family...
	Tony Perkins Joins 100 Black Pastors on Marriage Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire ; News Advisory: -- Tony Perkins Joins 100 Black Pastors On Marriage "A Marriage Protection...President, Tony Perkins. Tomorrow Tony Perkins, President of the...Marriage Protection Amendment Tony Perkins, President of Family...Coalition of Africa American Pastor Star Parker, President ...
	Evangelical leader Tony Evans to speak at banquet for pastors Newspaper article from: The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL ; ...Evangelical Christian leader Tony Evans will be the guest speaker at a banquet Friday to honor pastors. The "Evening of Encouragement...appreciation banquet for McLean County pastors and their spouses, will be...is co-founder and senior pastor of the 8,000-member Oak...The Alternative with Dr. ...
	Pastor's wives hear good news in Dallas Newspaper article from: New Pittsburgh Courier ; ...want me to do-except be a pastor's wife.'" As life worked...dreaded. She married Rev. Tony Evans, pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship...nationally known ministry of pastors' wives. Last weekend, hundreds...the face of the wife of the pastor of her home jchurch in Guyana...
	Female Baptist Pastor Leads to Controversy News Wire article from: AP Online ; ...women leading congregations as pastors. Under Baptist governance...both her and her husband, Tony, as co-pastors. North Broad Baptist Church...becoming the only female senior pastor of an existing Southern Baptist...discuss the issue of female pastors. The association, which had...
	Georgia Baptists divided over female pastors Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City) ; ...women leading congregations as pastors. Under Baptist governance...both her and her husband, Tony, as co- pastors. North Broad Baptist Church...becoming the only female senior pastor of an existing Southern Baptist...discuss the issue of female pastors. The association, which had...
	Female pastor controversial in Georgia; Southern Baptist denomination takes a hard line on women serving in the pulpit Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) ; ...women leading congregations as pastors. Under Baptist governance...both her and her husband, Tony, as co- pastors. North Broad Baptist Church...becoming the only female senior pastor of an existing Southern Baptist...discuss the issue of female pastors. The association, which had...
	As Same-Sex 'Marriage' Deadline Looms, FRC Lights a Fire Under 300 Pastors; 'These Pastors Have the Ability to Attract Millions of Pro-Family Americans to Defend Marriage,' Says FRC's Perkins. PR Newswire ; ...sponsored a briefing for American pastors and priests of many faiths in...protect marriage. Three hundred pastors, representing hundreds of thousands...play," said FRC President Tony Perkins. "These pastors have...marriages' (May 23rd), FRC's Tony Perkins will host -- along...
	Pastors renew, refine role as black leaders. Newspaper article from: The Dallas Morning News (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) ; ...But today, black pastors again stand in the forefront...black churches and their pastors _ often criticized by...Frederick Haynes III, pastor of Friendship West Baptist...on me." The Rev. Tony Evans, pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship...just two of the black pastors with ...