Youthquake

Word YOUTHQUAKE
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What do we mean by youthquake?

A noticeable shift in society or culture in response to the activities or tastes of younger members of the culture.

A peaceful, digital-driven revolution by the youth of a country in protest against dictators who suppress democracy. Urban Dictionary

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The word "youthquake" in example sentences

From 1965 to 1971, it was the center of the so-called youthquake, representing the best of new thinking in the social sciences, in psychodynamics, in systems theories. ❋ Amy Wilentz (2006)

Baby boomers can remember with a shudder all those psychedelicized, lets-try-and-be-hip Hollywood "youthquake" movies in the late '60s. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Life has never been the same since that "youthquake" of forty years ago. ❋ P. J. O'Rourke (2003)

Time has an interesting piece on the "youthquake" powering Egypt's protests right now. ❋ The Huffington Post News Editors (2011)

Founders of nonprofits, they are in the vanguard of what Jourdan Urbach, 18, the oldest and most outspoken in the group, described as a "youthquake" of charity among their generation ❋ Unknown (2010)

Also displayed are some of the clothes they introduced to the mainstream: The black gown with a white sash worn by model Dovima, standing between two elephants, in a Richard Avedon photo; the topless bathing suit Rudi Gernreich made in 1964 that, as demonstrated by Peggy Moffitt in a William Claxton photo, drew a sharp line between the elegant look of 1950s models and the "youthquake" of the '60s; and Brooke Shields' second-skin Calvin Klein jeans from 1980 that she wore so famously at the age of 15. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Balenciaga designed for the magisterial likes of Gloria Guinness, Pauline de Rothschild and Bunny Mellon, not for the Twiggies, groupies and hippies of the 1960s youthquake—those skinny girls wearing the brave new minis of Cardin and André Courrèges. ❋ Laura Jacobs (2011)

But Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gives "Never Say Never" a B-plus: "Justin Bieber: Never Say Never may be the concert film as glorified promotional product, but it captures a genuine youthquake." ❋ Jen Chaney (2011)

I think a lot of that has its roots in the massive youthquake that was the 60s. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The youthquake of the early 1960s destroyed this simple trickle-down theory, as the populist styles of Carnaby Street displaced Paris haute couture. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Did you know that the percentage of young people in the crucial “youthquake” age bracket of 15 to 24 was higher in 1973 (18.5 percent) than in 1967 (16.7 percent)? ❋ P. J. O'Rourke (2007)

"Forget the youthquake," advises Time's Richard Corliss, noting that the latest Harris poll places John Wayne in the #3 spot in a list of America's favorite movie stars. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Indeed, what will probably most strike readers of this work is the grown-up sexuality that infused fashion up until the 1960s (when what Vreeland famously called the “youthquake” hit). ❋ Unknown (2007)

It shows a handful of composed, highly focused people at the top successfully harnessing a high-energy youthquake/campaign, calmly keeping it on track .. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Encouraged by [Tweets], thousands of college students joined the [youthquake] in [Egypt]. ❋ Mohit Hira (2011)

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