Word: generationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These salvos are endlessly diverting, but they represent the last tantrum of the buried child. Before the fade-out, Douglas acknowledges that his best roles were impersonations of moral stalwarts (Lonely Are the Brave, Lust for Life, Paths of Glory). And that despite his pose as a jut-jawed sinner...
Douglas Ginsburg was a Baby Boomer of sorts himself, and though not a political candidate, he would have been the first of his generation to have become a Supreme Court justice. But he too fell victim to the same pattern. It began with questions about his competence: What scholarship had...
But so far the Baby Boom generation's leading lights have not been able to understand the bargain the public makes with age. They exaggerate their own accompishments, as Quayle has done in suggessting that he is unrivalled in his knowledge of national defense policy or Hart did in proclaiming...
If Malone is right, Kennedy has won re-election in the past not because people share his ideology, but because they share a "cultural bond to the Democratic party." This time, Malone says voters will back him because, "I'm the first generation candidate, I'm the one from Waltham...
THE idea that Quayle is suddenly going to deliver the youth vote to Bush is unlikely as well. The so-called Baby Boom generation is an incredibly diverse one which, like most other generations, does not vote as a monolithic bloc. None of this year's likely Baby Boomer presidential...