Word: boomeritis
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...their lives--to see what time it is for all of us. When one of them dies, the hour seems very late. Even so, Harrison's death is not a shot to the heart, as Lennon's was. It was Lennon's murder that truly snuffed out the baby-boomer fantasy of eternal youth. If the presiding imp of the golden 1960s could be snatched away so suddenly, what hope was there for the rest of us? Harrison's death, however premature, feels different. It is more in the ordinary course of things, a reminder that the simple passage...
...Feet Under features a gay character finding solace in, of all uncool places, his church. Most conspicuous is the World War II mania, from Saving Private Ryan and Tom Brokaw's encomium The Greatest Generation right up to this fall's HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, which has rolled boomer reconnection with parents, guilt over easy prosperity and a longing for communal purpose (be careful what you wish for) all into one trendlet...
...role which the PSLM actively decries. Moreover, he explains that a common media angle would be to use the PSLM actions as a nostalgic trigger for the journalist to wax lyrical on “the good old days of protest”: the baby boomer sixties. “They would say, ‘isn’t this great, we have such a great future ahead of us if these students are the leaders of the future’ while we would be trying to just get things done and draw attention to the problems of poverty...
...Robertses are one of a fast-increasing number of boomer couples who are feeling the strain of dealing with elderly parents no longer able to manage on their own. The challenges range from running errands locally a few hours a week to making arrangements from a distance or, in the most difficult cases, providing long-term live-in care for an Alzheimer's patient...
...their kids concerning sex, wherever it may take place. Certainly, kids are active. More than half of the nation's 17-year-olds have had sexual intercourse, according to a 1999 study by the Alan Guttmacher Institute. And young couples are living together in far greater numbers than their boomer parents did before marriage. As families navigate this sensitive and often embarrassing terrain--neither child nor parent relishes the thought of the other having sex--David Treadway, a family therapist in Weston, Mass., notes approvingly that "people are trying to make judgments not based on moral systems...