Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...here they come: freshly minted grownups. And anyone who expected they would echo the boomers who came before, bringing more of the same attitude, should brace for a surprise. This crowd is profoundly different from -- even contrary to -- the group that came of age in the 1960s and that celebrates itself each week on The Wonder Years and thirtysomething. By and large, the 18-to-29 group scornfully rejects the habits and values of the baby boomers, viewing that group as self-centered, fickle and impractical...
People in their 20s want to give something back to society, but they don't know how to begin. The really important problems, ranging from the national debt to homelessness, are too large and complex to comprehend. And always the great, intimidating shadow of 1960s-style activism hovers in the background. Twentysomething youths suspect that today's attempts at political and social action pale in comparison with the excitement of draft dodging or freedom riding...
Down deep, what frustrates today's young people -- and those who observe them -- is their failure to create an original youth culture. The 1920s had jazz and the Lost Generation, the 1950s created the Beats, the 1960s brought everything embodied in the Summer of Love. But the twentysomething generation has yet to make a substantial cultural statement. People in their 20s have been handed down everyone else's music, clothes and styles, leaving little room for their own imaginations. Mini-revivals in platform shoes, ripped jeans and urban-cowboy chic all coincide with J. Crew prep, Gumby haircuts and teased...
...major change since the late 1960s, when Quebec separatism first became a serious political force, is that today no one questions Quebec's potential ability to survive as an independent country. The province's economic dynamism and cultural solidarity have given its politicians and businessmen a remarkable degree of self-confidence. Still, many participants in the debate do not believe a final split need occur. "When you come right down to it," says Alain Dubuc, an editor of the Montreal daily La Presse, "Quebeckers don't want to separate. What we need is a simplification of the relationship." Dubuc envisions...
WILDLIFE by Richard Ford (Atlantic Monthly Press; $18.95). A novel about a 16- year-old boy's coming of age in Montana during the 1960s, a time of oil boom and family disintegration, but also a time to begin understanding the world of grownups by observing their passions -- and mistakes...