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...ambiguous?and irresponsible???reference to the hundred or so demonstrators, both black and white, who had arrived in Attica. It could have been taken by the inmates as a reason to hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: War at Attica: Was There No Other Way? | 9/27/1971 | See Source »

...advent of the atomic bomb in 1945 split humanity into rival camps: the old are "immigrants" in a world they control but do not understand; the young are natives but still lack power. United by instant communications that dramatize crises everywhere, the new youth international views its elders as irresponsible???insensitive to global dangers like nuclear holocaust. In this situation, Miss Mead argues that much of the world is on the verge of a "prefigurative" culture in which "the young, free to act on their own initiative, can lead the elders in the direction of the unknown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: When the Young Teach and the Old Learn | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

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