Word: boomerism
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...living- room rug, staring at the ceiling and saying, "Oh, wow!" This renunciation was not a wrenching moral decision, but rather an aesthetic rite of passage as my palate began to savor California Chardonnay with the avidity I once reserved for Acapulco Gold. Yet as an aging baby boomer, my attitudes remain emblematic of that high-times generation that once freely used soft drugs and still feels more nostalgic than repentant about the experience...
...wicker chair in the middle of a vast lawn, the picture of leisure in his long-sleeve polo shirt and cotton twill trousers. A fresh-faced young woman walks barefoot on the beach, smartly / turned out in white cotton shorts and a sleeveless blouse. A square-jawed baby boomer clad in a classic linen shirt and cotton pants gazes serenely along a shoreline as if he is planning a bright future...
Where else would a baby boomer's memoir play begin but at a high school sock hop? The smartest girl in class sits alone, of course, equally terrified that no one will ask her to dance or that someone may. Where would the action predictably jump to next but a combined college mixer and "Clean for Gene" McCarthy rally? What way stations are then more obligatory than a protest, a consciousness-rais ing session, a TV talk show and a mistrustfully viewed "ladies' lunch...
Right or wrong, someone who knows nothing about Milton, Marlowe and Jonson is safer from ridicule than someone who is ignorant of Ickey, Montana and Boomer. At least for this week...
...minute warnings, got to puzzling over why even sluggish teams always seem able to move the ball at game's end. Increasingly, he has had the Bengals operating in a hurry-up mode from the start, dispensing with huddles, relying on sinister (defined: left-handed) quarterback Norman ("Boomer") Esiason to communicate the plans aloud in a complicated tongue. The effect has been to freeze the other team's situation specialists on the sidelines or create a confusion of too many men on the field...