Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...object to is the idea that an entire generation born in 1968 and after are all self-serving snobs, while the generation born in the 1950s are all altruistic angels. The habit of generation-naming has become so widespread as to be harmful. Characterizing the '80s as the age of greed totally effaces the behind-the-scenes, unpublic sacrifices made by, for example, child abuse workers, drug counselors, AIDS-hotline staffers, soup-kitchen servers...
...mere thought that the Wall could crumble into irrelevance so quickly runs counter to the "world views" instilled in those growing up in the age of Nixon, Brezhnev and Reagan. Indeed, the cultural landmarks used to define a "post-war world order" were planted before most of us were even born: Prague 1968; Berlin 1961; Hungary 1956. Even in Asia, Mao's Cultural Revolution and America's involvement in Vietnam began and reached their peak in the mid- to late 1960s...
Weisbrod's passion for the ice began at an early age. As a two-year-old, he was already zipping around rinks near his home in Woodbury, N.Y. At age three, he fell in love with hockey through his family's television...
Bell, a self-described liberal progressive, adds, "I would say 98 percent of the people who ask me are pleased with my position, which is that I believe that a woman should have every right to exercise control over her reproductive rights regardless of term of pregnancy, race or age...
True, Truman and Ike had other ideas about life after life in the White House. But that age is probably gone forever, like...