Word: miller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interest in student activism picked up with the collapse of Reaganistic policies," says Miller. He sees a similarity between the state of the country today, as Reagan's presidency nears its end, and the political climate of the early 1960s, when a comparatively liberal Democratic government replaced McCarthyism and the Eisenhower administration...
...There is an irony that today more kids are doing stuff in the U.S. than in 1960, but it does not add up to the same kind of mood," says Miller...
...optimism of the 1960s grew out of an affluent stable economy, in which students had the economic freedom to devote themselves to politics, says Miller...
...early 1960s followed the most sustained period of affluence and growth in American history. My generation was heir to that affluence, and everybody thought that the world was America's oyster. With that kind of economy, almost anything seemed possible," says Miller...
...Kids today are real concerned with what they are going to do, with getting a job. It is harder to be carefree and experiment," says Miller...