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Davidson said '60s radicals, "the unsung heroes of our generation," still live their values, whether in academic settings or in places like battered women's shelters...
...boomers are producing. Since today's young adults were born during a period when the U.S. birthrate decreased to half the level of its postwar peak, in the wake of the great baby boom, they are sometimes called the baby busters. By whatever name, so far they are an unsung generation, hardly recognized as a social force or even noticed much at all. "I envision ourselves as a lurking generation, waiting in the shadows, quietly figuring out our plan," says Rebecca Winke, 19, of Madison, Wis. "Maybe that's why nobody notices...
...Turow were simply a well-to-do attorney who dabbled in literature, he would almost certainly be hovering still in the ranks of the unheralded and unsung. He regards himself as an unlikely candidate for the rewards he has received: "I don't think anybody betting would have bet on me. I certainly wouldn't have." This is not simply modesty but the recognition that his progress came by way of a number of steps that made no particular sense when he took them. There is a circular irony to Turow's triumph: he finally became what he had always...
...well, every war has its unsung heroes, and we know...
...Heather had some very important minutes," Delaney Smith said. "She was the unsung hero of the first half. She was outstanding defensively against [Corneille Burt]. She had key rebounds. It was a tremendous effort considering she's been ill all year...