Word: generationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The book's premise is that the generation became splintered and cynical in the '70s, but now that it has achieved status and wealth, the Woodstock Generation is poised for a comeback and a resurgence of idealism. If anyone can have it all, it is the Woodstock Generation, the chosen...
UNFORTUNATELY, it's simply not true. The Baby Boomers put George Bush into office less than a year ago. They continue to spend themselves and the country into oblivion, leaving the next generation to pick up the pieces.
They seemed to have no difficulty adapting their newspaper's vapid and juvenile writing style into book form. They incessantly refer to the Woodstock Generation as if it were a single organism, with all its parts reacting the same way to events--much as USA Today refers to "the USA...
Here's an example of how the authors say the entire generation reacted after news of John Lennon's death: "The Woodstock generation was dumbfounded, got up, walked across the room and called itself on the phone." Wow.
THE bulk of the book is simply a year-by-year account of what happened in the U.S. between 1969 and 1989 and how it impacted the generation's collective psyche, usually making it more cynical.