Word: boomerism
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...role which the PSLM actively decries. Moreover, he explains that a common media angle would be to use the PSLM actions as a nostalgic trigger for the journalist to wax lyrical on “the good old days of protest”: the baby boomer sixties. “They would say, ‘isn’t this great, we have such a great future ahead of us if these students are the leaders of the future’ while we would be trying to just get things done and draw attention to the problems of poverty...
...Robertses are one of a fast-increasing number of boomer couples who are feeling the strain of dealing with elderly parents no longer able to manage on their own. The challenges range from running errands locally a few hours a week to making arrangements from a distance or, in the most difficult cases, providing long-term live-in care for an Alzheimer's patient...
...their kids concerning sex, wherever it may take place. Certainly, kids are active. More than half of the nation's 17-year-olds have had sexual intercourse, according to a 1999 study by the Alan Guttmacher Institute. And young couples are living together in far greater numbers than their boomer parents did before marriage. As families navigate this sensitive and often embarrassing terrain--neither child nor parent relishes the thought of the other having sex--David Treadway, a family therapist in Weston, Mass., notes approvingly that "people are trying to make judgments not based on moral systems...
...Levit's untitled depictions of 1940s urban New York has a small child-probably a baby boomer-at the epicenter; her mother is tucked into the periphery and a car speeds towards the child, who runs to her mother. The salient objects of the photograph are machines, cars, buildings, concrete, asphalt, and, in increasing numbers, people. The space presents itself ominously and uninvitingly. The child seems afraid, uncomfortable, not at home. In such a way, Levit appears to be depicting a sort of psychological dysphoria in terms of the physical space her subjects occupy...
...other words, a liberal humanist whom circumstance is threatening to turn into an angry white male. But while Bickford often seems whiny--the angst of the tenured baby boomer doesn't ring tragic to many folks--at least it promises to take Max into new emotional territory for a man. And then some. Dreyfuss, Yorkin says, "is not afraid to be shown looking at his own paunch in the mirror and feeling...