Word: generationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WE are the first Sesame Street generation.
NOW that the first Sesame Street generation enters its third decade, we must ask ourselves: Where have we been? Where are we going? Are we confused, wishing that we could just freeze time and remain children forever, locking ourselves in the den and watching Cookie Monster chant "Me want cookie...
Bush's remarks come at a time of renaissance for the nation's 117 historically black colleges. During the 1970s, many of the best black students deserted such institutions for Ivy League schools. Today, spurred in part by racist outbreaks on predominantly white campuses, African-American students are rediscovering the...
The possibilities for gene therapy will be limited for the near future. If gene transplants are performed on tissue cells -- bone-marrow cells, for instance -- the altered genes will die with the patient; they cannot be passed on to any children the patient might subsequently have. Someday, however, it may...
As a portrait of a generation, Wendy Wasserstein's new play is more documentary than drama, evoking fictionally all the right times and places but rarely attaining much thorny particularity about the people who inhabit them. The plot, such as it is, often seems like an unconscious cartoon of feminist...