Word: boomerism
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Mulching is none of those things. Like many other boomer parents, I've always acted as if my kid's main functions in life are to be respectable, responsible, smart and happy. But I had forgotten a lesson from my childhood: one of the privileges of parenthood is that you can make your kids do stuff. Unpleasant stuff. Stuff you don't want to do yourself...
...think they can't have one without the other. With the peace and prosperity we enjoy, Clinton is likely to be remembered as a fine President, victimized by our cultural obsession with celebrity scandal while being its ideal representative. He's the mirror of our times, the quintessential baby-boomer American--lofty ideals, a generous heart but no self-restraint. History could very well love him. HELEN STUTCHBURY San Diego...
...successful deployment of political celebrity. The baby boomer pundit consensus by the end of the evening: The Democrats had made a solid, forceful argument that the American people should vote for their ticket...
...tracked by the Department of Justice are grim: in the past three years, New York City has seen the number of its applicants plummet from 32,000 to 15,000; in the next five years, Minnesota expects to retire half of its police forces statewide. The aging of baby-boomer cops is partly to blame. So is the profession's tarnished reputation in incidents ranging from the racially charged 1991 Rodney King beating in Los Angeles to the recent wilding incident in New York City's Central Park, where assaulted women claimed cops did nothing to help them. Recruitment...
Daniel Okrent's operatic lament "Twilight of the Baby Boomers" [LIVING, June 12] struck us as far too pessimistic. Amid all those grim statistics, fear and loathing and laments over a future of Metamucil bingeing, Okrent left out one significant factor: baby-boomer women in their 40s and 50s say, in study after study, that they have never felt more self-confident or been happier. Women of this generation, who have redefined so much, are redefining middle age and exulting in the options and opportunities they now have. Sorry, but they are not miserable. And, yes, they remember...