"It's very hard to explain to the American generation."
Doby reflects the attitude of perhaps the last American generation that dared say "why not?"
They are the first American generation that will not live as well as their parents did.
He contained the story of an American generation.
He is among the more interesting composers in the emerging American generation.
For the future of American generations, for the children.
Both his parents are from Mexico making him a first generation Mexican American.
A third generation Chinese American, raised by his grandfather.
They were the first American generation with the freedom to choose how they wanted to live their lives.
We'd come of age in the 80's, saddled with the prophecy that we would be the first American generation to earn less than our parents.