Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.Essay: IN PRAISE OF MAY-DECEMBER MARRIAGES
They come out on the world with lips shining,
Flocks and generations, until time
Seems like nothing so much
As a blinding snowstorm of virginity,
And a man, lost in the perpetual scurry of white,
Can only close his eyes
In a resignation of monogamy.
—Christopher Fry's Venus Observed
MORE and more older men refuse to be resigned. Despite today's much-heralded split between generations, which should guarantee coeval marriages, the number of old-young alliances may be increasing. Certainly their visibility is. As May arrives, December seems closer than ever.
Envy as well as enmity is aimed at Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 70, veteran of two other alliances with...
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