Reviewers have called her disappearance a metaphor for the profound sense of loss in a society that hurtled from an agrarian dictatorship to an industrialized democracy within a single and often tumultuous generation.
In the past few days — the most tumultuous for Egyptians in a generation — broadcasts also included an idyllic piece on life along the Nile and a slick commercial that showed Egyptians of various ages set against the country's flag.
In 1969, in her commencement speech at Wellesley College, she eloquently gave voice to the youthful idealism of her generation in that tumultuous era.
The Ides of March dramatised for succeeding generations the choice between tumultuous liberty and orderly servitude, and the narrow line that divides the ruler and the tyrant.
In subsequent decades Radio Haiti Inter was subject to raids, violence and harassment, especially in the tumultuous 1980's, when the two-generation Duvalier dictatorship was finally kicked out.
He was hoping that America, taken in its entirety, would assist not only today's French people but also future generations in making sense of a tumultuous moment.
Artists like Gary Panter, Raymond Pettibon, Bruno Richard, Pascal Doury and Mark Beyer were expressing themselves through ratty, angry lines — marks that were in no way similar to the keen representational draftsmanship of a generation before but appropriate to their tumultuous time.
It seems like the most tumultuous time on the small screen in a generation, but much of the tumult is off the screen, in business meetings about how the media industry is transforming.
Above all, from my point of view, the class was giving me a fascinating insight into the "born free" generation – those black people born after the tumultuous struggle by their parents against apartheid had been won.
Over 11 hours and three plays (James I, James II and James II), the Australian premiere of the massive work traces three generations of Stewart kings who ruled Scotland in the tumultuous 15th century.
