Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 3, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba No age barriers to creativity Winnipeg wee by Glenn Collins hew York Are All of us doomed to aft old age of declining creativity a future of failing intellectual Powers and innovative ability that must be att ultimately accepted As far As creativity is even the elderly them selves have a negative View of old said Rose executive director of the Brookdale Centre on aging of Hunter College but its a social and its just Plain As Donna pres ident of Hunter said More creativity is both of them were holding Forth at metaphors of self creativity and reminiscence in old a today Confer ence at which 250 a scholars and visitors of All Ages there were slide shows and Ora history and amid much Joy and occasional tears elderly persons explored their creativity and the meaning of their Many of them read from the works they had crafted under the guid Ance of the artists and elders project of the teachers and writers co Labora the idea that creativity and old age Are mutually exclusive is perhaps As familiar As the joke about Mozart when he was your he was impressive examples Sophocles wrote oedipus at at the age of and Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes began the study of greek at the age of 92 As he when else would i have had the time to take it up among the mentally Alert and healthy cognitive studies have shown that intelligence among the aged does not inevitably said Harry Deputy director of the Brookdale in some Moody As in tests measuring insight into problem in Crea Tive and metaphoric older people show actual statistical Many of the studies purporting to show a decline in intelligence have identified the effects of illness and not of old Moody a key question is that of innate psychological ability versus social often the decline in creativity comes about be cause Peoples underlying capabilities Are not being challenged there locked into jobs or situations that Are but int youth the time of innovation creativity is not necessarily linked with said creativity can mean doing old things in a new or in a different Dobrof said that creativity in old age Means having the Opportunity to at tend to parts of ourselves that we never had the time or the Energy or the Chance to develop earlier in to these insights have important implications for the treatment of elderly so much of the feeling of depression among the elderly can be traced to the feeling of i cant grow or 1 cant be he n y times news service i fabric Sale of March 2nd to March you Haven seen a fabric store until youve seen shirt knits thousands of meters to choose to summer linens up to 150 wide to 2 99 Linen suiting Linen blends 150 wide m special Purchase summer shirting stripes solids values to gauges wrinkle Cottons excellent selection to uniform fabric 150 wide 1 99 Stripe stretch Terry 150 wide special Purchase stretch Denim 150 wide drapery upholstery specials drapery madness assorted open weaves values to upholstery super buy Nylon 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University researchers report that 40 per cent describe themselves As shy and another 40 per cent say they used to be shy but have conquered shyness common it is the rare person who Ive never had feelings of Philip project of shy people do not go around complaining about their shy they Are the real silent Majori Zimbardo is widely regarded As the first social scientist to take shyness after More than nine years of interviews and experiments on what he Calls a social the psychologist has divided its victims into two groups the publicly and privately publicly shy people cannot conceal the shyness that their both verbal and so clearly re they fail to make Eye Contact or smile at their posture is their speech they tend to stutter and Blush a privately shy people May appear to be aloof or snobbish others can be poised and even extroverted in pub these Are the the politicians and the University proves Zimbardo they report the same internal the same they have simply Learned to hide a frequent guest on television talk the psychologist says hosts who interview him often later confide their of camera there not shy when there asking the he its their for the to like Many others who exude Confidence and authority on the shyness strikes in socially unpredictable situations that Call for the most important area is Zimbardo both people should be there Are no rules that say now you and now you dont lady Diana spencers shyness goes Over Well with the by its very intimacy creates a maximum of that where shyness comes As Zimbardo describes is a kind of prison in which the person plays the dual roles of the who imposes restrictive and the Pris who follows the rules and thus earns the guards the Core of he is an excessive concern about being evaluated and an Assumption that the evaluation will be negative and you will be always an audience a common sensation reported by people seeking help at the Stanford shyness clinic in Palo is that of being an actor before an Ever present for a Small less than 10 per the Klieg lights never even when they Are remembering All the times they have failed in front of the they Blush when looking into a what is the cure for shyness in easy it is a matter of teaching social skills How to Start a How to keep it How to give and receive a with a bit of role most people can master these according to Gerald Phil a professor of speech communication at Penn state University and foun Der of the Friendship clinic Phillips teaches the Art of Small talk at simulated cocktail role playing is also widely employed in no popular assertiveness training shy people Aci out situations that produce butterflies in the stomach resuming a defective product to a asking for a calling for a but not All shy people Lack social what they according to is a feeling of he blames society for after Cross cultural studies in eight he theorizes that shyness flourishes in societies where parents transmit cultural norms that stress individual Success and personal responsibility for in the Case of Zimbardo the Appeal of lady dianas shyness is not surprising shy Reserve is a National characteristic the appearance of modesty is its Al most an upper class trait to have a slight n v times news service Check out the Block career form and today on Page 55 pensions fail Many women Halifax up something must be done to ease the situation facing especially when they reach retirement said the president of the Nova Scotia advisory Council on the status of Florence Wall told Nova Scotia Cabinet members that although half the women in Canada Are paid Only slightly More than on Quarter of working women Are covered by paid pension As Only one pension plan in four had survivor spouse benefits and three out of four pension plans expired with the male bread Wall would like a Federal human rights charter guaranteeing appointment of women to the supreme court of she asked that the Nova Scotia education depart in authorizing step up efforts to present a positive 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an avid Amateur and simply enjoys How do you account for the fact that some people retain All their faculties to a Ripe old while others lose theirs Many years earlier Gladys dear Gladys according to Albert professor of neurology at the Duke University medical about five per cent of the population Over 65 years of age suffer from alzheimer a progressive brain disorder that affects the ability of otherwise healthy people to think and the condition also May appear in those 45 years of age and while it once was believed that senility was due to arteriosclerosis hardening of the it is now known to result from a degenerative process of nerve aside from the toss of memory caused by brain the other major health problem of aged persons is a disease of the blood vessels which results either in a blockage of the flow of blood to the brain or a rupture of the Wall of the when this a part of the brain is Des possibly causing loss of or alteration of most strokes affect Only relatively Small 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