The current Congressional debate over Obama's request to attack Syria for its use of chemical weapons embodies the same generational consequences and disagreements as the debate over the United States joining the League of Nations did almost one hundred years ago.
That phrase hid a painful generational fracture, caused in part by disagreements about how much to build on the mass-market success of Scott Turow.
That phrase hid a painful generational fracture, caused in part by disagreements about how much to build on the mass-market success of Turow.
The gist of the disagreement now isn't partisan or theological as much as it is generational.
Today, the word used in the foundation is that 'we must be tolerant.' " While Mr. Suárez and the other 19 departing directors of the 170-member board dismissed the notion of a generational divide, local experts on Cuban-American affairs and the foundation's lawyer said disagreements between older and younger members were, indeed, at the heart of the conflict.
In just 357 words, chosen precisely to obscure much meaning, the communiqué still managed to lay bare disagreements over the Vatican's handling of the sexual abuse crisis; the deep generational divide inside the church; the legacy of the last two popes; and to top it off, a tantalizing whiff of who might just become the next pope and why.
He was vehement that no generational discord exists among activists, arguing his organization is grooming young civil rights activists and that any disagreements with other protestors are tactical, not philosophical.
Finally, Stevenson himself recognizes the relative weakness of the Generational Argument, admitting that the disparity in ethical views between individuals of different generations, etc. may just as well be explained, for example, by disagreement in belief about the qualities or consequences of certain actions, people, policies, etc. (1944, 18).
A generational taste shift?
This change is generational.
