12-16-2021, 10:17 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-16-2021, 10:30 AM by Anthony '58.)
Remember 1971's R-rated Summer of '42 and its 1973 PG-rated sequel Class of '44?
Based on the titles of both, these films were clearly about 1926 cohorts - who went on to serve in World War II.
So did even 1927 cohorts, even though few if any of them saw actual combat - yet they are still legally regarded as "World War II-era veterans," and entitled to all benefits applicable thereto (1927 cohort David Dinkins, the late former mayor of New York City, had to move heaven and earth to get himself into the Marines - but he succeeded).
Also in 1973 there was American Graffiti, which famously asked the question, "Where were you in '62?" (The characters had just graduated from high school that summer, making them 1944 cohorts - thus suggesting a first birth year for Boomers as earlier than 1946).
Now, fast forward to the 1978 movie Almost Summer.
It's theme song begins with the following lyrics:
"Susie wants to be a lady (movie) director,
And Eddie wants to drive a hearse.
Johnny wants to be a doctor or lawyer,
And Linda wants to be a nurse."
Not a word in there about "developing a meaningful philosophy of life."
Since this movie made its debut in theaters on April 21, 1978, and the script had to have been written before that, the characters had to have been patterned on no later than 1959 cohorts.
For further information, click on this link:
Almost Summer - Wikipedia
Based on the titles of both, these films were clearly about 1926 cohorts - who went on to serve in World War II.
So did even 1927 cohorts, even though few if any of them saw actual combat - yet they are still legally regarded as "World War II-era veterans," and entitled to all benefits applicable thereto (1927 cohort David Dinkins, the late former mayor of New York City, had to move heaven and earth to get himself into the Marines - but he succeeded).
Also in 1973 there was American Graffiti, which famously asked the question, "Where were you in '62?" (The characters had just graduated from high school that summer, making them 1944 cohorts - thus suggesting a first birth year for Boomers as earlier than 1946).
Now, fast forward to the 1978 movie Almost Summer.
It's theme song begins with the following lyrics:
"Susie wants to be a lady (movie) director,
And Eddie wants to drive a hearse.
Johnny wants to be a doctor or lawyer,
And Linda wants to be a nurse."
Not a word in there about "developing a meaningful philosophy of life."
Since this movie made its debut in theaters on April 21, 1978, and the script had to have been written before that, the characters had to have been patterned on no later than 1959 cohorts.
For further information, click on this link:
Almost Summer - Wikipedia
"These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation" - Justice David Brewer, Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 1892