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...young adult rebelliousness was linked to two social realities: the Civil Rights Movement, and the Bomb: "When we were kids the United States was the wealthiest...country in the world; the only one with the atom bomb. . . . Many of us began maturing in complacency. As we grew, however, our comfort was penetrated by...

...at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit. When we were kids the United States was the wealthiest...found good, principles by which we could live as men. Many of us began maturing in complacency. As we grew, however, our comfort was penetrated by events...

...at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit. When we were kids the United States was the wealthiest...by modern war, an initiator of the United Nations. . . . Freedom and equality for each individual, government of, by, and for the people — these American...

...at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit. When we were kids the United States was the wealthiest...found good, principles by which we could live as men. Many of us began maturing in complacency. As we grew, however, our comfort was penetrated by events...

...at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit. When we were kids the United States was the wealthiest...equality for each individual, government of, by, and for From thts founding statement of Students for a Democratic Society, 1966, 46-63. the people—these...

...Huron, Michigan, drew up a remarkable statement that voiced the feelings of betrayal among students : When we were kids the United States was the wealthiest...found good, principles by which we could live as men. Many of us began maturing in complacency. As we grew, however, our comfort was penetrated by events...

...Its opening lines captured the heart of the transition from the Cold War ethos to an emerging world: When we were kids the United States was the wealthiest...found good principles by which we could live as men. Many of us began maturing in complacency.270 No more complacency. And with the demands for changes...

...at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, Looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit. When we were kids the United States was the wealthiest...individual, government of, by, and for the people— "The search for truly these American values we found good, democratic alternatives . . . principles...

...sentence, however, is preceded by a particularizing location of the experience of this generation: "When we were kids the United States was the wealthiest...distribute Western influence throughout the world" (7). Not just the historicizing references to postwar American dominance, the bomb, and the UN, but...