Mellow? Hello?It's true that as we grow older, many aggravations that we used to take seriously seem to lose edge ("Older but Mellower: Aging brain shifts gears to emotional advantage," SN: 6/24/06, p. 389). Some of us, however, become grumpy, cantankerous can·tan·ker·ous adj. 1. Ill-tempered and quarrelsome; disagreeable: disliked her cantankerous landlord. 2. oldsters. It's generally recognized that a positive outlook on life has a favorable effect on general health. If that's correct, then the "mellow oldsters" might have been a self-selected sample. DOV DOV Data-Over-Voice DOV Degree of Variation DOV Defenders of Valor (gaming group) DOV Disbursing Officer Voucher DOV Director of Orbital Verification (Hubble Telescope) DOV Diaphragm-Operated Valve R. ALEKSANDROWICZ, RAMAT GAN Ramat Gan (rä`mät gän), city (1994 pop. 122,200), W central Israel, adjacent to Tel Aviv. Founded in 1921, Ramat Gan is an important industrial center. Food processing is the chief industry; construction materials are also made there. , ISRAEL Perhaps it's because I'm only 49 that it seems all too easy to turn this article around by a slightly different wording: "Older and more cynical: Aging brain shifts gears to become an emotional cripple." OK, that's too much, but have we not heard of the miserable old man? PETER MORGAN This article is about the British screenwriter. For other uses of the same name, see Peter Morgan (disambiguation). Peter Morgan (born April 10, 1963 in London) is an English Academy Award nominated screenwriter and playwright. , NEW HAVEN, CONN. |
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