Word: boom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1960s began with the violent death of a president and ended with the near-terminal illness of an entire political system. Owing to the coming of age of the "baby boom" of the postwar, era, it would have been a turbulent decade at best--young persons have boundless energy and immoderate passions, and thus are capable of extraordinary feats of both creativity and destructiveness. Their sheer numbers alone would have guaranteed that we would have had unusual fashions in music and art, abnormally high crime rates, and new social and religious movements. The war in Vietnam and race relations provided...