Silent Generation
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Popularized in a Time article in 1951.[1][2] So called because they were not often politically strident.
Proper noun
[edit]the Silent Generation
- The generation of people born from the late 1920s to the early 1940s.
- The Silent Generation produced such counterculture leaders as John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Huey Newton and Abbie Hoffman.
- 2018 September 18, Amanda Kolson Hurley, “Fake Public Squares Are Coming to the Suburbs”, in The Atlantic[3]:
- Reminiscence therapy targets this age range, and for those Silent Generation members now in their 70s and 80s, that means the 1950s.
- 2019 March 6, Soraya Roberts, “Reality Bites Captured Gen X With Perfect Irony”, in The Atlantic[4]:
- Like his character, Stiller was Gen X, but he didn’t have Boomer parents; his mother and father were part of the Silent Generation, and more important, they were in showbiz.
Translations
[edit]generation of people born from the late 1920s to the early 1940s
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See also
[edit]Timeline of generations |
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References
[edit]- ^ “The Younger Generation”, in Time[1], 1951 November 5: “By comparison with the Flaming Youth of their fathers & mothers, today's younger generation is a still, small flame. It does not issue manifestoes, make speeches or carry posters. It has been called the "Silent Generation."”
- ^ Bob Henger, Jan Henger (2012) The Silent Generation: 1925–1945[2], Author House, →ISBN
Further reading
[edit]- Silent Generation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia