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Greatest Generation Redux
Submitted by Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D on 10.11.2001
For a while now we have pondered the late-in-coming celebration of “the greatest generation.” “Late-in-coming” because the baby boomers of the 1960s’ “youth movement” proudly asserted that they were the greatest generation ever to grace the land of America. Further, the Establishment, and many of their parents, rushed to affirm this proclamation. Time magazine in 1967 went as far as to say that the youth movement “will infuse the future with a new sense of morality, a transcendent and contemporary ethic that could enrich the ‘empty society’.”
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