What Mr. Sheppard appreciated was the elegance that Mr. Obama reaches when he is firing on all cylinders. Very few public figures do that. Most don’t even try. Elected officials in New York are hardly an exception. No names needed. You know who they are.
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Among politicians, Franklin D. Roosevelt made the grade for Mr. Sheppard. But he was it. And he was long ago. That’s when Mr. Obama entered the conversation. “I can’t think of any recent politician,” Mr. Sheppard said, “except that young fellow who spoke at the Democratic convention.
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The rest of us did not fare much better in his estimation, especially we New Yorkers. Too many of us talk too fast. We hit our G’s much too hard, then ling-uh too long ovuh them. Also, you didn’t, like, want to get Mr. Sheppard started on the way many young people are, like, unable to utter a sentence without, like, packing it with one, like, really irritating word.
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On a matter separate from his holding high the banner of clear speech, Mr. Sheppard may have been keenly sensitive to the plague of ageism in our society. This is only a guess. But he sure was touchy about discussing his age. He didn’t want to go there, even though it was obvious that he was well into his 90s and was still as universally admired as ever.
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One could understand why, say, a 50-year-old actor might want to shave a few years off the résumé. But wouldn’t someone who had lived so long and so successfully be proud to announce that he was still going strong at 94?
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SOME people that old “are glad to flaunt it,” said Dr. Karl Pillemer, a gerontologist at Cornell University.
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