Foreign coaches such as Weaver and Peter Townsend, the Australian former world surfing champion, were recruited to train this new generation, with authorities expecting successful showings in surf competitions for their investment.
These attitudes are clashing head-on with those of the more traditional older generations and authorities.
Sorensen, Chris said, sensed in the air that Kennedy and he both breathed the brisk aspiration of a young generation come to authority, the changing of the guard from the old generals of World War II to the young officers come back to lead, the reveille of that torch being passed.
"I'm his biggest fan," says Johnny Marr, late of the Smiths, who as the pre-eminent guitar hero of his generation carries some authority.
Williams came from a generation of local authority planners who made the move into corporate management; their ranks include the likes of Sir Brian Briscoe of the Local Government Association.
"He is the outstanding football presenter of his generation, combining great authority from his very distinguished playing career with wonderful broadcasting instincts and sharpness – making him a true star performer".
When combined with Conservative and Labour governments that were manifestly incapable of protecting the country's amenity and honour, is it a wonder that the younger generation took against authority, finding its way to hedonism, introspection or hard graft.
He was an artist, the finest playwright of his generation, and the authorities had interrupted him and his actors in the legitimate pursuit of their art.
"The Big Parade" (1986), a story of military training, which Mr Chen was ordered to end with a celebration of the state 35th anniversary parade in Tiananmen Square, can in fact be read as a critique of conformism.The fifth generation baffled the authorities, who welcomed the kudos it was earning abroad but felt instinctively that wool was being pulled over their eyes.
"Never in a generation have local authorities had such a major challenge.
