Word: boomerism
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...this is about more than mere money. Theorizes H. Stephen Glenn, co-author of Raising Self-Reliant Children in a Self-Indulgent World: the parents of boomers were too busy surviving--trying to provide a secure, comfortable home--for them to notice whether their children were content all the time. "So our generation wants our children to feel good because that is what we lacked." No matter how strapped they are themselves, boomer parents don't want their twentysomething or even thirtysomething offspring to feel bad because they can't pay a bill, take a trip or buy that purebred...
Ultimately, the number of depressed older people in our country will decrease when we get better at acknowledging their importance in our society. As baby boomers approach their mid-50s and move toward Golden Pond, it is essential that we transform society's attitudes toward older people and build institutions that provide constructive cultural, economic and social roles for them. Depression is not only more common than the common cold but also infinitely more dangerous. Depression and suicide in old age send a negative message to all who would grow old. The first baby boomer will turn 65 just...
...then there was Bill Clinton, who fused politics and pop culture more effusively than any president before him. Like a kid who got Warren Beatty?s Rolodex for Christmas, he turned D.C. into a Hollywood East and brought a People magazine ?Baby Boomer edition? quality to his presidency...
...glorious martyrdom, only to become hideously frightened once her execution is inevitable. Thompson's Creon acts on character; Celik's Antigone is impulsive. These two actors' interpretations of the role are the closest the production comes to being a prism that reflects contemporary times. Antigone is the baby boomer of the 60s, fighting the good fight for all the reasons right and wrong; Creon is the adult baby boomer, clinging to material success in a very fallible...
...with a withering movement of the Religious Right--which isn't as strong as one might believe here, as this state still has its political mindset rooted in populism, which does not necessarily go lockstep with the Republican party line--and the onset of old age amongst the Baby Boomer set, it's believable that such a ban could drift away in 10 or 15 years. And yet, that is 10 or 15 years too long...