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By then, as a writer of a later generation, David Foster Wallace, remarked, the “brave new individualism and sexual freedom of the 1960s devolved into anomic self-indulgence” for the so-called Me generation of the 1970s.

Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009

But what if you could reduce the sense of isolation of millions of old people, provide an army of helpers in schools and hospitals and above all teach our anomic young people that they are part of something big and rather miraculous called British society?

Archive 2009-03-01 Burke's Corner 2009

These have much in common; they are guides to effective living in our chaotic, anomic society.

Jerry Leichtling: Toward A Purpose Driven Party 2009

What does interest me is the question of feeling "atomised" and being adrift in "anomic campuses."

Savitri Erans are more existentially authentic as opposed to the SCIY alarmists Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

But what if you could reduce the sense of isolation of millions of old people, provide an army of helpers in schools and hospitals and above all teach our anomic young people that they are part of something big and rather miraculous called British society?

"Societies cannot survive on liberalism alone" Burke's Corner 2009

It provides us with a common bond and mitigates against the anomic impulse in society.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

As a convinced Bible-believing Christian I have no problem with recognising that everyone is inherently religious and that without some overarching world-view would slump into what sociologist, Peter Berger calls 'anomic collapse'.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

But when mega developers began transforming Jersey City's post-industrial waterfront into a real estate "Gold Coast" in the '80s, area pols turned anomic.

Jersey City Dreaming: Bullets, Bribes, and Unreal Real Estate 2009

What does interest me is the question of feeling "atomised" and being adrift in "anomic campuses."

Archive 2009-08-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

Suddenly, he was appealing not only to environmentalist Greens and anomic "disaffecteds" -- two groups that helped him score upsets in Maine and Colorado -- but to a broad swatch of America.

The Method In His Madness 2008