Word: students
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before the takeover of University Hall, Lewis Feuer wrote in The Conflict of Generations: "Harvard through its history underwent cycles of generational insurrection, but that element of the moral de-authoritization of the older generation so essential to the rise of a student movement never emerged." He spoke a moment too soon. It was all coming together: the escalating, attention-getting tactics of the civil rights movement; the new wholesale liberation through the birth-control pill from traditional sexual patterns; and the growth of a hedonistic, re-programming counter-culture among the young...
...some respects I find the present generation of university students more appealing. They are more open-minded and individualistic as well as less prone to social, religious, and racial prejudice. When I was a college student in the 1940s, there prevailed in this country quite rigid codes of social behavior and personality models one was expected to emulate, both of which, coming from Europe, I found ridiculous and annoying. During the past 30 years, in part due to strong influences emanating from continental Europe, American youth has emancipated itself from these conventions...
...student generation of the 1940s and 1950s lived within fairly rigid social and other constraints which, though often violated, were not in themselves much questioned. Ethical norms and professional goals were set within a framework of widely shared standards...
...find it difficult to imagine, for instance, that a contemporary American college student faced with some major personal tragedy would think of turning for consolation to the Book of Job. Or that he would look for philosophical detatchment from the vicissitudes of daily life on the wise pages of Montaigne. Or seek to understand nature through the verses of a Romantic poet...
...Graduate student in physics Brandeis University...