Word: evens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decline of flashy idealism always a bad thing? When non-public, painstaking, and long-term commitment to individuals or even to "progress" takes the place of a few shouts in the street, the younger generation is sweepingly condemned for apathy...
...generation did teach us, however, that the world can't be changed by our attendance, however passionate, at a rock concert or even at a draft-card burning. The new style of protest is different, and it's hidden, but it exists. It should be encouraged and expanded, not condemned...
...mere thought that the Wall could crumble into irrelevance so quickly runs counter to the "world views" instilled in those growing up in the age of Nixon, Brezhnev and Reagan. Indeed, the cultural landmarks used to define a "post-war world order" were planted before most of us were even born: Prague 1968; Berlin 1961; Hungary 1956. Even in Asia, Mao's Cultural Revolution and America's involvement in Vietnam began and reached their peak in the mid- to late 1960s...
...Thus, even as events offer great promise, they simultaneously remind us of a past we would rather overlook. The moments of shocking history--which must be confronted--simply prove again the intractable nature of opposing ideologies and economic systems...
...this moment of generational change, that while the East looks to Mikhail S. Gorbachev and Egon Krenz, America reflects with longing back to the late John F. Kennedy, whose voice still rings resonantly from some younger, self-idealized national age, for answers. It would seem that the times are even ready for change in our own country...