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Hart, whose speech traced the political odyssey of his generation from its optimistic beginnings in the early 1960s to the age of pere-stroika, said the assassination of John F. Kennedy '40 and the disillusionment of the Vietnam War made citizens realize the limits of American power...
...final question is this: Is the simple life just a passing fancy, a stylish flashback of the 1960s? Not so, say people who have studied both eras. Contends Berkeley sociologist Robert Bellah: "It's no longer messianic, the way it was in the '60s, but relatively pragmatic. That may give the present mood a greater staying power." That's good, because the American generation now reaching middle age has a lot of promises to keep -- not to mention mortgages to carry, tuition to pay and lawns to mow. No wonder they want to keep it simple...
...getting-and-spending frenzy of the 1980s can be seen as just another stage in the life quest of the baby boomers, the successor to the hedonism of the 1960s and the obsessive self-improvement of the Me decade. But until something new replaces it, materialism will in some fashion continue to fill the void. "There is a free-floating sense of searching for a value system," says Ann Clurman, a vice president of Grey Advertising. "All the instincts of the baby boomers are saying, 'Slow down. Figure out what's important.' But they haven't arrived at what that...
...1960s, Object Lessons concerns three generations of a rich Irish clan who live in an established inner suburb of New York City. The patriarch, John Scanlan, is a lively if familiar fictional figure, a power-driven old sinner who started making Communion hosts at 21 and who now has vestment factories in Manila and construction companies closer to home. The Scanlans' milieu has much in common with the author's childhood as depicted in her columns: nuns, summers at the beach and minute, competitive skirmishes among preadolescent girls. Quindlen also relishes skewering pirates like John; to him the Kennedys...
...trying task of policing ghetto America was perhaps best described by the Kerner Commission following the urban riots of the 1960s, most of which were ignited by police violence: "Police responsibilities in the ghetto have grown as other institutions of social control have lost much of their authority: the schools, because so many are segregated, old and inferior; religion, which has become irrelevant to those who lost faith as they lost hope . . . the family, because its bonds are so often snapped. It is the policeman who must fill this institutional vacuum, and is then resented for the presence this effort...