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...being able to manage both. In 1982 more women?including some of the daughters of the past generation???take all this as a birthright...
...variety of experts have compiled a statistical portrait of this 1980s Career Woman Impatiently Waiting. She is over 30, has a well-paid job, lives in an urban area and has a college education. The chances are that she will not replace her own generation???as did her mother?by having 2.2 babies. She will probably have only one child. One thing is certain. She will go at fertility, pregnancy, delivery and infant care with an aggressive elan. She will not become pregnant at the whim of the tides, but when she can clear her agenda. Says Richard Levinson...
Viet Nam brought on a cultural civil war in the U.S.?a deep and basic fracture. The conflict within the immense baby-boom generation???the Americans who came of age just in time for Viet Nam ?almost amounted to this century's equivalent of the War Between the States. But now, here and there, are signs that the terrible poisons and destructive intractabilities of the time are yielding to some charity and acceptance. Many antiwar activists are learning a certain sympathy for the Viet Nam veterans that they never displayed before. Says Journalist Doug Kamholz, an antiwar radical...
...views. They sometimes sound like new Jeremiahs. They do not hesitate to predict the end of the world, or at least the end of a life with quality. Yet they hold out hope too. "We are in a period of grace," says Commoner. "We have the time?perhaps a generation???in which to save the environment from the final effects of the violence we have done...
...GENERATION???By "One of Us."?Century ($1.50). If they could believe that "One of Us," aged 17, is typical, the shakers of heads at contemporary adolescence would sigh with relief. She speaks, like her elders and Dr. Holmes's woodpecker, solemnly of unimportant things. "Bright as a button" well describes her. She is as wholesome as spinach. As for her generation (unless as may be, she is utterly typical), it will be faintly disturbed by writing which for docile triteness resembles nothing so much as one of Dr. Prank Crane's high-school themes. It is to be hoped...