Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fund." Gurney denied that. They were indeed a somewhat contrasting pair. Gurney, Maine-born, Colby-and Harvard-educated, a successful lawyer, matinee-idol handsome, ramrod stiff (largely the result of a World War II sniper's hit that partly paralyzed him for two years); Williams, a husky, freckled youth, then 26, a dropout from Georgia Southern College, a former Avis car-rental agent. According to Williams' testimony, Gurney told him: "There's a large job that we have to do. I'm glad to have you aboard, and I know you'll do a good...
...rest of the world-is impossible without saving all of humanity. We must have democratic reforms affecting all aspects of life. The future of the country lies in an orientation toward progress, science and a personal and social moral regeneration. But we must not call upon our people, our youth, to make sacrifices. As for victims, we have already had more than enough of them...
Other Christian Democratic leaders tried to persuade Fanfani to resign gracefully. Moro conceded that the Christian Democrats had been guilty of an "arrogance of power" for not recognizing the changing moods of youth, women and labor. He professed "solidarity" with Fanfani but firmly dissociated the fate of the party secretary from that of his own government...
...Decter never deals with the possibility that her description of the liberal parent (with whom she has so clearly allied herself) may be inaccurate. She claims that the youth of the 60s are unable to define themselves except in terms of their parents, and because of this assumption must conclude that their attitudes grew out of a liberal childhood. Yet she never quite realizes that every generation is a product of the generation before it, and that her liberal parents--whom she characterizes as "America's professional, or enlightened, middle class"--are still influenced by the attitudes of their parents...
...that were in college during the dreaded 60s, who adjusted fairly well to reality. Her parents, as well as her children, are all failures. But if all the children are failures, there seems to be a logical flaw in her argument, as at least a few of the youth of the 60s were not of liberal backgrounds, and she will have to look to reasons outside the home to explain the dissatisfaction of an entire generation...