Harrison Ford and Barbra Streisand are among the pre-boomers becoming 64 in 2006, says an age-obsessive article in the NY Times on McCartney and his generation.
"He was a teenager when he wrote the tune for "When I'm Sixty-Four," and only 24 when the Beatles recorded it in 1967 for "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." But just as George Orwell's "1984" proved to be an abiding prophecy of a dystopic future for so many impressionable readers, Mr. McCartney's lyrics delivered to a self-consciously youthful generation an enduring if satirical definition what their golden age might be like "many years from now."
Today, many of those who embraced that quaint vision of enduring love, caring, knitting and puttering in retirement — "Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 64?" — couldn't have been more wrong," says writer Sam Roberts.
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why did they invent viagra before they invented the male birth control pill?
The rapacious pharmaceutical companies have not put their staff philosophers 'into the loop,' I think it's safe to say.
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