fesolutions form chorus

THERE, WE’VE made it
once again. The perilous
leap over the abyss, one
hand Ictting go of 1992,
the other stretched to

. grasp at destiny.

Eleanor

THE VINTAGE YEARS

We're up at the top of the
parabola, and the curve
beyond is murky still,

But going into a new year
isn't such a big deal any more,
eh? We've had enough of them
to know it’s simply a conve-
Mience, a chimeré.born out of
‘our own limitations,, it doesn't
really change anything.

When we were young and
naive we used to make a big
dea! out of it as a jumping-off
pinnacle into improvement.
What we wouldn’t
ourselves!

_ Now we are old and -wise,
and sure, that we'll’ Jug: the
whole caboodle ‘of our errors
and little triumphs and agonies
along with us to the very end.

Still and all, some of those
‘resolutions’? we voiced time
after time at least: meant we
were admitting to imperfec-
tion, which. in itself is a tiny
step forward to doing some-
thing aboutit.. -

And though we have faltered
individually, the silent chorus
of hope for conversion had iis
effect on our world, | '

Things have changed.

We, the. elders, are often
heard making :that remark
ruefully, looking around us
with ill-concealed disapproval,

, silently suggesting that the
world, since we abdicated con-
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handbasket. But say, some
things have actually improved,

Take men,

Vd take a fot of them,
myself, Ine very fond of men,
But they bear judgmental
scrutiny. ungraciously, as: a
rule, and oare not usuatly
amenable to correction.
What's to correct? I'm here,

- aren’, 12-What else could you

ask for?

Cracks are showing, though,
in the long-established facade
of the lords of the jungle.
Young men have been sighted
quite frequently driving the
baby-carriage or the stroller;
or actually careless of the
public gaze with toddler's
crumpled little hand clutched
openly.

They’ve some of them
publicly burped and dressed
and spooned nutrition into in-
fants, changed nappies would
you believe?

Many of them, and | can
personally attest to this, have
learned to handle cookery
beyond: heating stale coffee.
And a great many of them
have struck out against the or-
thodoxies of archaic male
dressing — they wear soft
roomy stuff, very colorful,
very practical, very — con-
sidering the masculine rigidities
as they have prevailed forever
— revolutionary.

Qlder men, the ones in suits
who run the world, have large-
ly abandoned their abominable
smoking habits — when did
you last have to endure the
company of someone slobber-
ing around a fat cigar? — but
still cling:to the suit image, of
course.

The reliable belt, the tie that
binds —- when they start mak-
ing speeches and issuing orders
in T-shirts and pull-overs we'll

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know the barricades have at
last been breached,

Foeus a searching eye on my
generation, though, and you'll
not find much relaxation to
cheer about, They're like con-
crete, set in their ways. These
old guys will never loosen their
standards of propriety for ei-
ther sex, and will continue to
fecl uneasy in public without
the tight security of the tie and
the jacket’s comfortable ar-
mor,

We old
that, actually —

ladies don't mind
it's a sign

they're still standing on their

principles, even if those prin-
ciples are being croded by the
freer young. The day one of
them wants to squire you
somewhere in cardigan and
loafers is the day you'll know
he’s started downhill.

That’s because
ladylike — rigidities
commodate whai we regard as
“letting go.’ We old ladies
may go into church hatless, as
is the current mode, we may
go out to tea minus gloves, we
haven't ‘left a card’? for 40
years, but we still aren’t ready
to enter the dining room on
the arm of some ancient free
spirit in ‘shorts and a baseball
cap.

We look, though, with in-
terest at the New Mien, and
hope we hang around fong
enough to see the inevitable
transformation universally ap-
plied. We aren’t without a
couple of hang-ups, mind.

We really don’t think it nec-
essary that their desire to bond
with the female psyche should

our) own
won't ac-

‘carry them. into the delivery

room.

If you want our frank opi-
nion,. it’s on a par with that
silly young :woman’s wanting
access to the football. players’

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an authentic story for her
newspaper,

The long rear view of new
years we have hailed reminds
us that if you insist'on turning
over a new leaf it’s up to you
to deal with what you find ac-
cumulated under it.

May we all carry on into
muny many more, straighten-
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