Word: nationals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pool of Harvard students the beginnings of a general nationwide trend, it is quite likely that some genius will do so in order to argue that American college students have emerged from their self-absorbed visions of money and grandeur. Be on the lookout for some "Latest on the Nation's Campuses" feature stories proclaiming a "New Generation of American Students...
This mindset leads the national media to characterize in cynical terms everything our generation does. Those high school students who apply to and attend the nation's "elite" colleges are doing so, we are told, not for the intellectual atmosphere such schools can provide us with, but rather for the connections they supposedly offer to the "corridors of power", in Washington and Wall Street. Ours has been the new "lost generation," influenced by the self-indulgence of the Reagan years, hopelessly corrupted by daily corruption in sports, business and politics...
Over the past few days countless commentators, political scientists and Kennedy associates have lamented that America lost something with Kennedy's death. They disagree on exactly what--some say innocence, others say hope and yet others say confidence. But all concede that the nation changed drastically in the years that followed Kennedy's death, and that his death is in large part responsible for those changes...
...true that in the 25 years since the assasination, America has seen a fair share of disaster and dissapointment. The murders of Robert Kennedy '48 and Martin Luther King Jr shocked Americans by showing the nation's violent side. Faith in government was shattered by the successive blows of Vietnam, Watergate, the sour economy of the 1970s and the Iran-Contra scandal...
...Eliot House dining hall, but with Dan Quayle unable to wipe a smirk off his burnt flash-bulb of a face, and with George Bush--George Bush--finally able to look old Ron in the eye and say, "Well, pard...," it sure feels like I'm choking on a nation-wide haze of loose strands of woollen argyle and wafting fumes of Bean's Best Leather Oil. So I decided to get on a train. Heading north...