boomerism
The behaviours and attitudes of baby boomers.
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The behaviours and attitudes of baby boomers.
The hyper-masculinity, optimism and enthusiastic boomerism of the American frontier moulded the young Briton's character.
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(historical, US) A 19th century movement which campaigned for the extension of the American frontier.
Boomerism, then, was the most recent expression of the westering American spirit.
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An optimistic form of American capitalism that focuses on one industry.
Yet if the boosterism of the “dollar decade” had a sounder basis in reality than did the boomerism of the 1880s, there was ballyhoo in generous measure all the way from the Mason-Dixon Line to Florida's Gold Coast.
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