Word: boomerism
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Sidestepping a bread-and-butter youth agenda, Third Millennium is focused on hot- button media issues. "the whole group is feeding off the boomer media and telling them exactly what they want to hear ," says Who Cares? magazine associate editor Heather McLeod '89, who refused an invitation to co-found the group. A clear message makes for a better soundbite. And with a carefully tailored agenda, Third Millennium went to where the spotlight...
Penn and Teller are ultra-show-biz-savvy New York intellectuals whose act is an ironic deconstruction of magic shows in addition to being a very impressive magic show (see box). They first played Vegas a year ago. Penn Jillette's fondness for Vegas, like every hip baby boomer's, is sweet-and-sour, simultaneously bemused and fond. Of a traditional Vegas variety show at Bally's called Jubilee, he rants, "In the first five minutes they destroy temples and sink a giant model of the Titanic -- there are 80 topless dancing women while the Titanic sinks, blast furnaces spewing...
...make matters worse, the twentysomething graduates entering the workplace stand to earn less in inflation-adjusted dollars than their boomer counterparts did a generation ago. Starting pay for new liberal-arts graduates now averages $27,700 a year, according to a Northwestern University annual survey; that falls short of the adjusted entry-level earnings...
...baby boomer who teaches political science at the Austin campus said in a seminar that she felt she knew almost everything about Kennedy, from the big mistakes in governing to the big womanizing -- a word that bespeaks evil to generations sensitive to feminism. And yet when she hears the name or thinks about the man, "I just melt...
...crisis of political leadership (as Wardell highlights in his editorial). Too many politicians think along the same lines as Kuttner regarding entitlements. Is it a coincidence that the AARP constitutes the United States' largest, most powerful lobbying group? Would any self-interested politician want to ruffle the baby boomers' feathers as they prepare to pad their nests for retirement? Would such politicians be overly concerned with the less than stellar voting record of America's youth when they have plenty of baby boomer votes to rely...