Word: generationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ten years ago, the Sacher family called in Gerber, who headed the Zurich Insurance Co., to take over Hoffmann-La Roche, whose Valium profits had tranquilized it into lethargy. He streamlined the administration, production and research and set out to find a new generation of superstar drugs. The antibiotic Rocephin...
These are his five most famous lines; all Larkinites have them by heart. In the expanded context of the Collected Poems, though, this stanza seems not only funny but also perfectly serious. Every generation imagines that the next one will have things easier. In "High Windows" Larkin wonders if his...
Twenty years ago, a morning on the golf course was a political statement. To the tune-in, drop-out generation, golf meant Bob Hope and his U.S.O. tours, neatly pressed clothes, graying hair trimmed high around the ears and cut well above the collar. Country-club golf was a symbol...
Golf today is not the same game that First Putter Dwight Eisenhower played in the 1950s. Back then, says David Ferm, publisher of Golf Digest, "it was perceived as a game for fat, rich, old white guys." Today 40% of the 2 million newcomers are women, and club pros see...
The service, which included readings from works about the Holocaust, was designed to make the audience experience part of the pain suffered by the previous generation, said organizer Jonathan Savett '89-'90.