The new views about and questions being asked about aging could be detected across society. “Something strange is happening in America,” wrote Marj Jackson Levin for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1988, finding that what she called “the former boundaries of age” were being expanded or relaxed in many arenas. Whether it was fortysomething baseball players, midlife women having babies, or the oldest president in the nation’s history, it did indeed appear that the preconceptions surrounding aging were weakening. As baby boomers entered midlife, the idea of oldness was being pushed back, and the expectations for what people should or should not be doing at a particular age broadened. Turning fifty had only recently been commonly viewed as the unofficial turning of the corner into one’s senior years, for example, but now that number did not automatically mean one could not start a new career or family. In a good number of cases, at least, age was becoming less significant, a clear victory for those lobbying for a less age-centric society.