General Petraeus became the public face of President George W. Bush's counteroffensive in Iraq in 2007, while General McChrystal, in trying to salvage the war in Afghanistan, threw open his headquarters to the press and the public in a way unimaginable to a generation of generals before him.
Thanks to his astonishing success in passing gun control legislation -- something a generation of politicians before him had failed to do -- he became a rock star in the New York political world, as Mr. Spitzer, the state's attorney general, is now.
"There is a generation of artists who saw him as a role model.
A generation of Libyans briefly saw him as their only way through an impossibly corrupt and brutal system.
George Carlin, whose astringent stand-up comedy made him an heir of Lenny Bruce, who gave voice to an indignant counterculture and assaulted the barricades of censorship on behalf of a generation of comics that followed him, died on Sunday in Santa Monica, Calif.
It was how a generation of black men like him survived.
He recovered from the tuberculosis and returned to Berkeley, where he prospered as an adviser and collaborator to a generation of physicists who admired him for his intellectual virtuosity and broad interests.
A generation of Nigerian journalists still talk of him with respect.
Anderson cited the leading fashion photographers Steven Meisel and David Sims, the superstylists Marie-Amélie Sauvé, Joe McKenna (who is fashion director at large of this magazine) and Benjamin Bruno, and the art directors M/M (Paris) as inspirational colleagues — most of whom are a generation ahead of him in career terms.
WHEN Edmund L. Penning-Rowsell died on March 3 at his home in Oxfordshire, England, a generation of wine writers died with him.
