Silent Generation Archives - Hal Phillips https://www.halphillips.net/tag/silent-generation Small-Batch Journalism & Comment Sat, 25 Oct 2025 12:46:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.halphillips.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cropped-BNyb0KwmkKGrHgoH-C8EjlLlhlGBJrZchZqHQ_35-32x32.jpg Silent Generation Archives - Hal Phillips https://www.halphillips.net/tag/silent-generation 32 32 Kiltie-Aversion & Conformity — from the Man Whom Clothes Never Made https://www.halphillips.net/kiltie-aversion-conformity-from-the-man-whom-clothes-never-made?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kiltie-aversion-conformity-from-the-man-whom-clothes-never-made https://www.halphillips.net/kiltie-aversion-conformity-from-the-man-whom-clothes-never-made#respond Mon, 12 Aug 2019 20:15:10 +0000 https://www.halphillips.net/?p=3695 [Ed. I try to write about my father each August, the month wherein he left this mortal coil, all too soon, back in 2011. For additional essays in this memorial series, visit www.halphillips.net and search “dad” or  “Harold Gardner Phillips”.] My father abided by few fashion trends and set even fewer, though here I’ll claim […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/kiltie-aversion-conformity-from-the-man-whom-clothes-never-made/feed 0 Straight Generational Dope: Strauss, Howe, Draper, Pirsig & my Dad https://www.halphillips.net/straight-generational-dope-strauss-howe-draper-pirsig-dad?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=straight-generational-dope-strauss-howe-draper-pirsig-dad https://www.halphillips.net/straight-generational-dope-strauss-howe-draper-pirsig-dad#comments Wed, 09 Aug 2017 03:24:23 +0000 http://www.halphillips.net/?p=2887 I try to write about my dad each August because it was at the end of that month, six  years ago, that he left this mortal coil, all too soon. For most of his 74 years, my dad recognized himself as a Tweener, someone who didn’t belong to a specific or at least any commonly […]

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