Lady Bird Johnson would dedicate the park on Nov. 25, 1968, calling it "the crowning moment of a crusade which has lasted two generations".
So the dynasty would only last ten generations, one for each toe.
An old prophecy holds that the Chakri dynasty will only last nine generations.
I'm often asked how we manage to get along in a family-run business that's lasted four generations.
A skeptic might be excused for concluding that, to the U.S. military, fourth-generation warfare really means a conflict that will last four generations.
Over the last two generations, the science museum has become a place where politics, history and sociology often crowd out physics and the hard sciences.
Social Trends in American Life provides an invaluable perspective on how Americans view their lives and their society, and on how these views have changed over the last two generations.
As it happens, this is one of the themes of my forthcoming book — the extent to which the story of religion in America over the last two generations is a story, not of outright secularization, but of institutional decline.
Insurance companies have managed to miss every financial trend of the last two generations, which is why Hartford, the home of much of the insurance industry, is such a bustling metropolis today.
While the last two generations of perfumers leaned toward a potency that relied on synthetically derived animalics and spices (think YSL'S Opium), followed by sugary, candied notes (Mugler's Angel), the current generation increasingly wants perfume to bring inspiration from the organic world with purer, cleaner origins and scents.
Looking at the decline and dissolution of self-consciously progressive denominations, churches and religious orders over the last two generations, one possible conclusion is that their central problem has been a deficit of real, genuine belief, and that only a reaffirmation of historical Christian practice and conviction can restore liberal Christianity's vitality.
