Word: boomerism
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Spare a thought today for Dr. Leonhard Prinz. I know that you won't have heard of him. But if you're a baby-boomer, you probably knew someone just like him as you grew up in the '60s. Dr. Prinz was the music teacher at my elder brother's school. A booming, opinionated Austrian with mid-European charm, he was a frequent guest at my parents' dinner table in the '60s, where he would hold forth on the merits of Mozart and the contributions of Chopin...
...didn't know what I'd find at the L.B.J. library when I went there searching for scraps of my mother. She died as a somebody, or someone who had been a somebody, anyway--as the first network newswoman for CBS. To baby-boomer women it must seem absurd that I would describe her that way, but by the time I was old enough to pay attention, women correspondents were everywhere, and her career was in eclipse, with only a few more turns in front of the cameras. She was a veteran of two networks and PBS by then...
...didn't know what I'd find at the L.B.J. library when I went there searching for scraps of my mother. She died as a somebody, or someone who had been a somebody, anyway - as the first network newswoman for CBS. To baby-boomer women it must seem absurd that I would describe her that way, but by the time I was old enough to pay attention, women correspondents were everywhere, and her career was in eclipse, with only a few more turns in front of the cameras. She was a veteran of two networks and PBS by then...
...everything. That coupled with our impending financial success means we should at least be able to do some good: donate five billion dollars to charity or spawn a couple of presidents. Maybe then our parents will actually be proud of us. If not, we can at least make our Boomer parents proud grandparents and stick a copy of Walden in our kids' lunchboxes...
...baby-boomer parents, staying together and not divorcing involves something that most of them find wholly unacceptable: sacrificing their all-important selves for something larger--the family and, by extension, the next generation. It's time to turn away from the primacy of the self as the most essential element of a meaningful life. MAUREEN BOYLE Falls Church...