Word: viets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...right formula? Not everyone is threatened by a nuclear waste dump in his backyard. The Baby Boomers remain exceedingly leery of conventional politicians. Though Eugene McCarthy's "children's crusade" helped speed Lyndon Johnson's departure from the White House in 1969, the slow wind down of the Viet Nam War and the depressing revelations of Watergate, not to mention images of assassinated heroes burned into their brainpans by TV, turned off many Baby Boomers to politics just as they were reaching voting age. Voter participation among Baby Boomers remained well below the national average into the 1980s and only...
...Best and the Brightest of Kennedy's day fought World War II to save the possibilities of freedom, helped rebuild war-ravaged Europe as a bulwark of the West and launched the world's free-market economies on the greatest surge of growth ever. Even if the tragedy of Viet Nam is entered on the debit side, this record of achievement remains a challenge for their children to match...
...Baby Boomers' great expectations have been diminished by a series of rude social and economic shocks, from the Viet Nam War to double-digit inflation. Although the sheer size of the generation provided a sense of solidarity and power, it ultimately proved to be the Baby Boomers' bane. There were simply too many of them to maintain in the style to which millions became accustomed as affluent children of the '50s and '60s. Egalitarianism might have been the avowed ethic of their youth, but competition was, and still is, the harsh reality. Many bravely refuse to admit...
James S. Kunen was 19 and a Columbia University sophomore when he wrote The Strawberry Statement, a wry account of Columbia's 1968 student strike against the Viet Nam War. The book's instant success transformed Kunen into one of the spokesmen for the rebels of his generation. Since then, Kunen, now 37, has served as a conscientious objector, worked as a public defender in the Washington court system, been married and divorced. Now a senior writer at PEOPLE magazine, he was asked by TIME to comment on what has happened to him and his protesting peers...
...young "radicals," we considered ourselves the conscience of the nation. To us, the Viet Nam War was a moral offense, not a question of politics; we reacted to it primarily in moral, rather than political terms. Somehow, by the strength of our youth, the nation would be wrenched from the grip of death, cleansed, made new. A "movement" without politics or program, we were defined largely by our shared lives on the campus--millions of us getting stoned and listening to the Beatles--and by our opposition to the war. Now that war is over, and we inhabit private worlds...