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- proper noun the generation of people born from the late 1920s to the early 1940s
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Traditionalist: 1925-1945 These folks are sometimes referred to as the Silent Generation
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But coach / manager / player Abe Schmier, a highly vocal member of the so-called Silent Generation, has been affiliated with the GRJCMC team since 1969.
Latest News 2009
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But coach / manager / player Abe Schmier, a highly vocal member of the so-called Silent Generation, has been affiliated with the GRJCMC team since 1969.
Latest News 2009
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Unlike the Silent Generation, Boomers and Gen X, Pew found that Gen Y is the only generational cohort that doesn't cite "work ethic" as a defining characteristic.
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Unlike the Silent Generation, Boomers and Gen X, Pew found that Gen Y is the only generational cohort that doesn't cite "work ethic" as a defining characteristic.
Fact or Fiction: Is Gen Y Lazy? Deborah Frett 2010
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Biden and McCain are both Silent Generation members.
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The Silent Generation had one of the worst ever: they went through the "sexual revolution" at the same time as the Boomers - except the Boomers were doing it at 18, and the Silents were doing it at 38 with their spouse and kids at home.
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The Silent Generation had one of the worst ever: they went through the "sexual revolution" at the same time as the Boomers - except the Boomers were doing it at 18, and the Silents were doing it at 38 with their spouse and kids at home.
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My research, and my memory, has led me to believe that few women took that happy-housewife ideal without spoon-gagging, and of course, the second-wave feminism that would fully bloom a decade later (powered by Betty Draper contemporary Betty Friedan) had its roots in the internal rebellion of these Silent Generation women whose obedience was skin-deep, at best.
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· The Silent Generation would re-name themselves the "Responsible Generation" 44%.
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