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<p>Remember <i>The Silent Generation</i>? It was a piece of pop scholarship done in the late 1950's serialized in <i>Life</i>. The interviews it comprised were with seniors at the campus, Princeton, where I was then a freshman or sophomore. The piece struck many of us as somewhat amusing, somewhat aggravating—we recognized the picture it conveyed, but identified with it not at all. We were at that point where the conformist mood of the 50's was beginning to shift to the radical mood of the 60's. We weren't yet radical—the change hadn't yet come to the point of positive self-definition. We were busy at first primarily with negation, separating ourselves from what seemed to be. The most influential book on campus then I think was William H. Whyte's <i>The Organization Man</i>; it had an astonishing emotional effect on us for a work of sociological description—such a life as it described we did not want.</p>

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	<p>Remember <i>The Silent Generation</i>? It was a piece of pop scholarship done in the late 1950's serialized in <i>Life</i>. The interviews it comprised were with seniors at the campus, Princeton, where I was then a freshman or sophomore. The piece struck many of us as somewhat amusing, somewhat aggravating—we recognized the picture it conveyed, but identified with it not at all. We were at that point where the conformist mood of the 50's was beginning to shift to the radical mood of the 60's. We weren't yet radical—the change hadn't yet come to the point of positive self-definition. We were busy at first primarily with negation, separating ourselves from what seemed to be. The most influential book on campus then I think was William H. Whyte's <i>The Organization Man</i>; it had an astonishing emotional effect on us for a work of sociological description—such a life as it described we did not want.</p>		<p>Remember <i>The Silent Generation</i>? It was a piece of pop scholarship done in the late 1950's serialized in <i>Life</i>. The interviews it comprised were with seniors at the campus, Princeton, where I was then a freshman or sophomore. The piece struck many of us as somewhat amusing, somewhat aggravating—we recognized the picture it conveyed, but identified with it not at all. We were at that point where the conformist mood of the 50's was beginning to shift to the radical mood of the 60's. We weren't yet radical—the change hadn't yet come to the point of positive self-definition. We were busy at first primarily with negation, separating ourselves from what seemed to be. The most influential book on campus then I think was William H. Whyte's <i>The Organization Man</i>; it had an astonishing emotional effect on us for a work of sociological description—such a life as it described we did not want.</p>