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Article: Europe's youth drop in, not out. (shift toward conservatism)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- May 26, 1986
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Europe's youth drop in, not out
A strangely silent spring has come to Western Europe--a season in which one angry youth now demand little beyond an entry ticket to the good life.
From Stockholm to Rome, from Geneva to London, the trend is conservative. A new generation's hopes and values contrast markedly with those that produced a violent student revolution in 1968 and strident activism in the 1970s.
The change in less than two decades is remarkable. Waves of students in jeans and fatigue jackets once were in the streets, insisting on the right to remake the world by their standards. Their successors, wearing ties and stylish skirts, strive ...