Silent Generation
English
Etymology
Popularized in a Time article in 1951.[1][2]
Proper noun
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 Abby Hoffman.
- 2018 September 18, Amanda Kolson Hurley, “Fake Public Squares Are Coming to the Suburbs”, in The Atlantic:
- Reminiscence therapy targets this age range, and for those Silent Generation members now in their 70s and 80s, that means the 1950s.
Translations
generation of people born from the late 1920s to the early 1940s
See also
- greatest generation
- baby boom
- Generation Jones
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References
- “The Younger Generation”, in Time, November 5, 1951: “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, Author House, →ISBN
Further reading
Silent Generation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia