Need Help Finding an Old Baby Boomer Article
Fri, Aug 13, 2010
Sometime in the mid-80′s I came across an essay describing boomer angst due to the fact that “we were the generation that was always supposed to be young,” and we were starting to not be so young any more. I think it was probably triggered by the fact that the boomers were about to start turning 40 (which, of course, seems impossibly young nowadays) and were being shoved out of the limelight by those upstart GenXers.
I think it was in Newsweek, but it could have been one of the other news magazines. And I think it was on the last page of the magazine. I’ve looked for it online (recently) and in real life (years ago) and have never been able to find it. Can anyone point me to the right article?
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Maybe one of the two articles below. Also, I found a quote almost identical to yours in a Newsweek Essay called “Generalizations X”, that read “No one was ever supposed to be younger than we are.
1992- The New Middle Age
“Month by month, individually and collectively, the generation that refused to grow up is growing middle aged”
http://www.newsweek.com/1992/12/06/the-new-middle-age.html
1993- The Whiny Generation
“As a baby boomer, I’m fed up with the ceaseless carping of a handful of spoiled, self-indulgent, overgrown adolescents. Generation Xers may like to call themselves the “Why Me?” generation, but they should be called the “Whiny” generation”
http://www.newsweek.com/1993/10/31/the-whiny-generation.html
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