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Well not really. In truth, those lines come from a two-year old Time Magazine article, invoked recently by public-policy advocate Ted Halstead. The article and Halstead both seek to alter that common image branded upon those born between 1965 to 1978, Generation X. Enough to make anyone schizophrenic, Generation Xers first had to face their parents' scorn as lazy, slothful, ungrateful children, and more recently are stereotyped as innovative go-getters, technology mavens and upstart venture capitalists. Yet for the Glasgow-based ensemble, who are garnering quite a following on both sides of the Atlantic, the duality almost...
...that is not the complete truth. For every story of apparent rudeness, I can match it with a story of kindness between strangers. Just the other day I was on the subway and a little girl started coughing hard. Instead of just ignoring her, my fellow passengers offered the child and her mother a seat, a supply of tissues and some water. None of this surprised any of us--this is an ordinary event in New York. People hold doors, give up their seats on public transportation for pregnant or elderly passengers and always help out in an emergency...
...that is not the complete truth. For every story of apparent rudeness, I can match it with a story of kindness between strangers. Just the other day I was on the subway and a little girl started coughing hard. Instead of just ignoring her, my fellow passengers offered the child and her mother a seat, a supply of tissues and some water. None of this surprised any of us--this is an ordinary event in New York. People hold doors, give up their seats on public transportation for pregnant or elderly passengers and always help out in an emergency...
...woman, I'm not a Mrs. Yet Miss doesn't seem right for a mom, and I dislike Ms. For years I did what many parents do--I asked my daughter's friends to call me by my first name. We parents claim it's simpler that way. The truth is that we think the informality will keep us young and cool and prevent us from becoming our parents. Instead, we become the reluctant peers of our kids and their friends, who skip into the kitchen to ask, "Hey Amy, got a soda?" I've dealt with this discomfort...
...could possibly object to moderation. And yet, as we all know, moderation pettifogs and sniffs out loopholes, and has a tendency to live life one day at a time, in the wrong direction: "Oh, I'll have eggs Benedict, just this once." The truth is that moderation works only if you are an unblinking maniac about it. While admirable when rigidly observed, moderation is ultimately a thin creed, a sort of Unitarianism of diet, a deism of good intentions...