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Sean Combs looks to establish a good comedy rap with 'Get Him to the Greek' - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 21 Jul 10
     
    "The hip-hop mogul is dead serious about being very funny in the movie." Referred to by Neil Howe at Lifecourse. Article itself is by Amy Kaufman at the LA Times on June 3, 2010.
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The death of the American Century - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 30 Apr 10 - Cached
  • I was quite young -- born in 1941 -- but old enough to hold these truths to be self-evident: We didn't conquer; we liberated. We were always the good guys. We wore the white hats. Despite their grousing about uncultured big-foot Yankees, everyone else secretly wanted to live like Americans.
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      anonymous on 30 Apr 10
       
      This is a fantastic little fantasy, but not very representative of the hard reality. Still - quite a useful look into one generation's framing of the post WWII-era.
  • anonymous on 30 Apr 10
     
    By Henry Allen at the Washington Post on April 20, 2010. Silent generation lamentations for the passing of American greatness. This was referenced by Neil Howe's post here: http://bit.ly/bWNbUn
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Death of the American Century | Lifecourse Blog - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 30 Apr 10 - Cached
  • This view that Allen describes, of America as history’s existential good guy, is very linked to the psyche of his  Silent (born 1925-1942).
  • In any event,  Generation X (born 1961-1981) seems entirely unmoved by the emotional tensions and turmoil that Allen describes.
  • It’s fascinating, in retrospect, that the Silent interpreted the warmth with which a war-devastated world regarded Goliath America just after WWII as genuine affection, as opposed to transient gratitude triggered by necessity. 
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  • Back in the 1990s, Allen interviewed me at length about a feature story he was doing (it was later published in the WP) on how people of different ages react to that old Warner Brothers cartoon about Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote.  In a talk he was giving at a local college, he discovered by accident that all of the (Xer) students sympathized with the coyote, not the roadrunner.  He was flabbergasted, because for as long as he could remember, he and his peers had always rooted for the roadrunner.
  • anonymous on 30 Apr 10
     
    By Neil Howe at Lifecourse on April 30, 2010. A generational look at the changing assumptions of America's ascendancy.
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