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Observing the tendency to look upon the generation of the '60s as the "reference point of youth" and the resulting despair among today's students "of having missed something, of having been born too late for the golden generation of the students," Trudeau offered his view that generations alternate between activity and inactivity...
Like the "suburban generation" of the Eisenhower years and the "lost generation" of the '20s, the period of the '80s is inactive by comparison to the age of Walter Lippmann and the "revolution" of the '60s, Trudeau said. He added that the periods of inactivity are necessary rest periods which society uses to regenerate itself...
...unlike the prosperity of the '20s and '50s, Trudeau continued, the '80s are beset by economics problems unheard of in earlier eras, remaining his audience of the right job market they will soon confront...
Launching onto an attack of the economic policies of the Reagan Administration. Trudeau's hatangue ran the gamut from quips about the integrity of Secretary of Labor Raymond Donovan to Administration efforts to out back on school lunch programs...
George Bush once remarked that he wanted to restore the stars to the eyes of the third graders. I think the third graders might prefer to have their lunches restored." Trudeau told the receptive crowd which interrupted the cartoonist several times with applause...