Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overemphasis on youth in the 1960s was also part of the social dislocations of the time. If anything aroused generational solidarity, it was the Viet Nam War. To many observers, youth's almost unanimous opposition to the war made all young people seem alike. They appeared to speak with one magisterial voice, leading sympathizers to generalize: "They have something to tell us. We should listen." On most issues, in fact, youth spoke with as many voices as any other group, but the discords were drowned out in the uproar over war and generation gap. Class, ethnic and geographical differences...
Today's more sober appraisal of youth is based partly on a striking demographic fact: America is growing older. There are proportionately fewer young people than in the 1960s. In that decade, as a result of the post-World War II baby boom, the age group of 14 to 24 expanded by an unprecedented 13 million, or 52%. Youth was bound to make more of a stir on the basis of numbers alone. In the 1970s, however, this age group will increase by only some 4.3 million, while in the 1980s it will decline. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates...
...youth tide did not ebb without reshaping the landscape. A mere glimpse of the hair and clothing styles of Wall Street commuters is enough to convince anyone that the youth impact of the '60s was at least skin deep. And deeper. The voting age was lowered from 21 to 18, the draft was abolished, and students were given places of responsibility in college administrations. Age has paid another compliment to youth in taking over some of its protest tactics. People over 65, in particular, are organizing to better their...
...Patrick Moynihan points out in The Public Interest, youth of the 1960s was highly isolated from the rest of society. And in isolation is bred arrogance and unworldliness. Age, on the other hand, did not have the benefit of easy contact with youth. There was a tendency either to defect rather mindlessly to youth, accepting uncritically an alteration of values, or to develop a siege mentality and fear and resent one's own children. It was all too easy, depending on one's point of view, to hold youth responsible for what was good in society...
Some residents said that the incident began with a quarrel between a black youth and a white youth and then mushroomed...