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How Godzilla changed from nuclear terror to protector, ecological warning, and avenging memory talking-about-my-generation.…
How Godzilla changed from nuclear terror to protector, ecological warning, and avenging memory

How Godzilla changed from nuclear terror to protector, ecological warning, and avenging memory

Ask whether Godzilla is a hero or a villain, and the most honest answer is another question: Which Godzilla? The creature has been an executioner and a rescuer, an atomic nightmare and a children&#…

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Born of the Bomb - How Japan Turned Its Nuclear Nightmare into Godzilla in 1954 talking-about-my-generation.…
Born of the Bomb – How Japan Turned Its Nuclear Nightmare into Godzilla in 1954

Born of the Bomb – How Japan Turned Its Nuclear Nightmare into Godzilla in 1954

This week the Japanese terror known as Godzilla turned 72. Three days after that birthday yet a new version of a Godzilla film opened, first in Japan and 3 days later in the United States. This is …

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When Our Icons Begin to Leave Us talking-about-my-generation.…
When Our Icons Begin to Leave Us

When Our Icons Begin to Leave Us

Last month we received the news that Dolly Parton had died. She was 80 years old, born in 1946—the year traditionally used to mark the beginning of the Baby Boom. She had traveled an almost unimagi…

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How Dolly Parton Became One of Gay America’s Most Beloved and Staunchest Allies talking-about-my-generation.…
How Dolly Parton Became One of Gay America’s Most Beloved and Staunchest Allies

How Dolly Parton Became One of Gay America’s Most Beloved and Staunchest Allies

How Dolly Parton Became One of Gay America’s Most Beloved and Staunchest Allies Dolly Parton became an icon to America’s gay population before many mainstream country stars would even acknowledge t…

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What Dolly Parton's Imagination Library—and Her Other Work Beyond Music—Reveals About Her View of Life talking-about-my-generation.…
What Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library—and Her Other Work Beyond Music—Reveals About Her View of...

What Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library—and Her Other Work Beyond Music—Reveals About Her View of...

When they were young our granddaughter Audrey and our grandson Owen—who, like Dolly Parton, was born in Tennessee—each received a book every month from Dolly’s Imagination Library. The books …

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What Dolly Parton’s Songs Teach Us About Dignity, Love, Work, Faith, and the Art of Living talking-about-my-generation.…
What Dolly Parton’s Songs Teach Us About Dignity, Love, Work, Faith, and the Art of Living

What Dolly Parton’s Songs Teach Us About Dignity, Love, Work, Faith, and the Art of Living

This is the 1st of 4 articles in tribute to the Queen of Country, who died last month at the age of 80. Dolly Parton left behind thousands of songs, but also something less easily counted: lyrics t…

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That's What We're Talking About - A Letter to Our Readers talking-about-my-generation.…
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The Beginning of the Cold War - How an Ideological Struggle Shaped the Baby Boomer World talking-about-my-generation.…
The Beginning of the Cold War – How an Ideological Struggle Shaped the Baby Boomer World

The Beginning of the Cold War – How an Ideological Struggle Shaped the Baby Boomer World

For Baby Boomers born in the years immediately following World War II, the Cold War was not just a chapter in a history book. It was the atmosphere they breathed. It shaped their fears, their polit…

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The Dawn of the Nuclear Age — and the Fears That Shaped the Baby Boomers talking-about-my-generation.…
The Dawn of the Nuclear Age — and the Fears That Shaped the Baby Boomers

The Dawn of the Nuclear Age — and the Fears That Shaped the Baby Boomers

On August 6 and August 9, 1945, the world changed forever. In the closing days of World War II, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In a mat…

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T Here's an introduction to my new Talking 'Bout My Generation series - The Defining Moments of the Baby Boomer Era. The Generation That Lived Through Everything talking-about-my-generation.…
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A blast from the past. My article on 50s Radio Helps the Rock Roll talking-about-my-generation.…
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The Super Commercials of the Super Bowl talking-about-my-generation.…
The Super Commercials of the Super Bowl

The Super Commercials of the Super Bowl

The Super Bowl as Cultural Text How Commercials Became Mirrors of American Life It has become America’s game. It is America’s super-most undeclared holiday. It’s Super Bowl Sunday…

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The History of Super Bowl Halftime Shows: From College Marching Bands to Up with People to Bad Bunny talking-about-my-generation.…
The History of Super Bowl Halftime Shows: From College Marching Bands to Up with People to Bad Bunny

The History of Super Bowl Halftime Shows: From College Marching Bands to Up with People to Bad Bunny

For much of its history, the Super Bowl occupied a rare space in American life as a shared civic ritual. Even people who did not care about football often watched, drawn by commercials, spectacle, …

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Network About Page for Talking 'Bout My Generation talking-about-my-generation.…
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Network About Page for Talking 'Bout My Generation talking-about-my-generation.…
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The Black Panthers, Then — and Why They Matter Now (Part 3) talking-about-my-generation.…
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The Black Panthers, Then — and Why They Matter Now (Part 2 of 5) talking-about-my-generation.…
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The 1st article in The Black Panthers Then and Why They Are Coming Back (Part 1 of 5) talking-about-my-generation.…
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My column for today. Why “Ohio” Is Still America’s Definitive Protest Song Against Government Violence talking-about-my-generation.…
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