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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>It should have read "proud Beatles hater". </FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=idahovandal1@live.com href="mailto:idahovandal1@live.com">Carl
Westberg</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, August 12, 2009 4:53
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Take this, Kai, you
Beatles hater....</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>>From the NY Times:....<BR>
<DIV class=timestamp>August 12, 2009</DIV>
<H1><NYT_HEADLINE type=" " version="1.0">Generation Gap Narrows, and Beatles
Are a Bridge </NYT_HEADLINE></H1><NYT_BYLINE type=" " version="1.0">
<DIV class=byline>By <A title="More Articles by Sam Roberts"
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/sam_roberts/index.html?inline=nyt-per">SAM
ROBERTS</A></DIV></NYT_BYLINE><NYT_TEXT>
<DIV id=articleBody>Maybe it is the sweet mixture of apprehension and promise
in “When I’m 64,” <A title="More articles about Paul McCartney."
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/paul_mccartney/index.html?inline=nyt-per">Paul
McCartney</A>’s ode to aging, which he wrote when he was still a teenager. Or
the gentle optimism of “Here Comes the Sun.”<BR>Whether or not the inspiration
was lyrical (don’t forget “All You Need Is Love,” “All Together Now” and “Your
Mother Should Know”), a new study argues that the <A
title="More articles about The Beatles"
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/b/beatles_the/index.html?inline=nyt-org">Beatles</A>
may have helped bridge today’s generation gap in America. <BR>They didn’t
close it altogether, of course. Younger and older people still disagree.
<BR>But the raging antagonisms that defined the intergenerational divide in
the 1960s have eased, according to a survey by the <A
title="More articles about Pew Research Center"
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/p/pew_research_center/index.html?inline=nyt-org">Pew
Research Center</A> being released on Wednesday to coincide with the 40th
anniversary of <A title=Woodstock
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/w/woodstock_music_festivals/index.html?scp=1-spot&sq=Woodstock&st=cse">Woodstock</A>
(the music festival, which more than half of 16- to 29-year-olds could not
identify).<BR>“There’s now broad agreement across the generations about one
realm of American culture that had been an intense battlefield in the 1960s:
the music,” the survey concludes. Every age group from 16 through 64 listens
to rock ’n’ roll more than any other format (people 65 and over prefer country
music). The Beatles rank in the top four among every group.<BR>Strikingly, Pew
found that the number of Americans who find major differences in the
viewpoints of younger and older adults is slightly higher than it was 40 years
ago. But Paul Taylor, the Pew center’s director, said: “The generations in
2009 have found a way to disagree without being disagreeable. They’re not
fighting with each other.” <BR>While 19 percent of older adults recall that as
teenagers they had major disagreements with their parents, only 10 percent say
they have similar arguments with their own teenage or young adult children.
<BR>The survey found that 26 percent said there were strong conflicts between
older and younger Americans — a far smaller share than the 39 percent who say
those conflicts exist between blacks and whites, 47 percent between rich and
poor and 55 percent between immigrants and the native-born.<BR>Americans of
all ages say that older adults have better moral values and a better work
ethic, but that younger adults are more tolerant of other races. (Blacks were
far more likely to see generational differences in moral values, political
views and respect for others.) <BR>“Might it be that one reason parents and
teenage children aren’t quarreling nearly as often now as parents and
teenagers did a generation ago is that, when push comes to shove, they can
always chill out together over a Beatles tune?” the survey asks. “As we
researchers like to say, Needs further study.”<BR>Mr. Taylor added a footnote:
“It warmed my heart when I walked in on my youngest when she was a teenager —
she’s now 28 — and in her room was a poster of the
Beatles.”<BR><NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM></NYT_UPDATE_BOTTOM></DIV></NYT_TEXT><BR>
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