People: THE YOUNGER GENERATION

IS it possible to paint a portrait of an entire generation?

Each generation has a million faces and a million voices.

What the voices say is not necessarily what the generation believes, and what it believes is not necessarily what it will act on. Its motives and desires are often hidden. It is a medley of good and evil, promise and threat, hope and despair. Like a straggling army, it has no clear beginning or end. And yet each generation has some features that are more significant than others; each has a quality as distinctive as...