Generation OMG

How will they turn out, the recession babies? Will they reuse tea bags? Cure cancer?

Source: The New York Times
Author: Kate Zernike
Publication Date: March 07, 2009

Article Abstract:

Robbie Blinkoff, an anthropology professor at Goucher College, discusses his students' increased likelihood to pursue less lucrative, more creative careers during the economic contraction.

Lead:

In 1951, Time magazine set out to paint a portrait of the nation’s youth, those born into the Great Depression. It doomed them as the Silent Generation, and a generally drab lot: cautious and resigned, uninterested in striking out in new directions or shaping the great issues of the day — the outwardly efficient types whose inner agonies the novel “Revolutionary Road” would dissect a decade later.

Link to Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/weekinreview/08zernike.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=OMG&st=cse
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