Another man, in his 30's, was making a courtesy call on an elderly relative, a senior official, when the generational tensions exploded into harsh words.

His movie Tatoo was one of the first films to address the generational tensions during the early years of Germany's "student revolution".

Their culinary collaboration, A la Cote St.-Jacques, derives its energy from this generational tension.

Whether this represents a generational tension between a local black leadership demanding a gatekeeper role and a national campaign that believes that role is no longer necessary is a moot point.

Unfortunately, generational tensions arise between the rebellious youth born on the ship and the original crew, with Wilson forming a gang-like leadership breeding with the majority of the females on board.

This generational tension has been fed by the disastrous fate of the expansion of Medicare insurance.

- but amid the political, generational and racial tensions of 1969 it was treated as a major achievement, one that helped redeem the image of a scruffy younger generation.

Amanda Grenier offers yet another source of explanation for why generational tensions exist.

As Europeans are forced to work longer for less, to support the idle elderly, generational tensions will increase; and as Arabs and Africans pour in, social tensions will rise.