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Silent Generation en · PROPN

Etymology

Popularized in a Time article in 1951. So called because they were not often politically strident.

Meanings

  1. The generation of people born from the late 1920s to the early 1940s.
    • Reminiscence therapy targets this age range, and for those Silent Generation members now in their 70s and 80s, that means the 1950s. 2018 September 18, Amanda Kolson Hurley, “Fake Public Squares Are Coming to the Suburbs”, in The Atlantic:
    • 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. 2019 March 6, Soraya Roberts, “Reality Bites Captured Gen X With Perfect Irony”, in The Atlantic:
    • The Silent Generation produced such counterculture leaders as John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Huey Newton and Abbie Hoffman.

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Relateds

baby boom · greatest generation · Generation Jones

Translations (2)

pl ciche pokolenie (generation of people born from the late 1920s to the early 1940s) · mi reanga ngū (generation of people born from the late 1920s to the early 1940s)