Word: generationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Republican vice presidential candidate DanQuayle traveled by bus caravan through smallIllinois towns, accompanied by Gov. JamesThompson. Quayle said he felt "a specialobligation...to help George Bush define the needsof a new generation of Americans, theirchallenges, their responses."
Because of the 1960s and 1970s women's liberation movement, our generation was the first to be educated in classrooms that sought to equalize the situation for genders. Harvard is the ultimate step on this educational continuum, the ultimate sign that women can achieve as much as men. But if...
During the end game of a close election, the millions of votes and millions of dollars boil down to a dinky little figure: 270, the electoral college majority that takes its owner to the White House. The battle for that number is an uneven one. For a generation, Republicans have...
The generation that gave us the all-purpose jeer "It sucks" also gave us gonzo journalism, that self-consciously hip form of social commentary. The conventions are rather rigid. The reporter should work for a publication that is liberal in both its outlook and expense-account policies. He should know...
The papa of gonzo is, of course, Hunter S. Thompson, who at 49 seems to have lost his bite. In his best-selling new book Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80s, the old anger has been replaced by a wistful snit, as if Lenny Bruce...