"It can console one to recall how present-day crises, perilous though they seem, may not be worse than those of an earlier generation; that ways can be found, however imperfect, to arrest and turn around an apparently hopeless course of events".
I just refuse to see another generation go that way".
It made sense, then, that the late Jonathan Larson's musical about starving artists trying to keep the East Village safe from profiteers would move that generation the way that "Hair" moved earlier generations.
My generation saw things that way; that is why so many young people supported Mr. Obama.
"It was left to the Joshuas to finish the journey Moses had begun," Obama said to the youthful successors to the aging leaders of the civil rights movement, "and today we're called to be the Joshuas of our time, to be the generation that finds our way across the river".
They wanted to take those steps together, but it was left to the Joshuas to finish the journey Moses had begun, and today we're called to be the Joshuas of our time, to be the generation that finds our way across the river".
But just as today's sex-and-the-city, girly-girl babes look askance at the Ms. magazine generation that paved the way, so the flappers distanced themselves from their more earnest beneficiaries, the down-in-the-trenches suffragists -- maiden aunts, as they saw them -- who had cut their political teeth in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, with all its puritanical overtones.
But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others.
"We set out to create the next big travel platform for our generation that operates the way we do and taps into our innate desire to connect," said Koffman, in a statement.
The results, published this month, portray a generation that, in some ways, is more traditional than some media executives might fear.
