Word: age
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even Mrs. Bodington would pretend that these three long stories make happy reading. They are all deeply tragic, and not even the slickness that shows occasionally as the result of her training in whodunits can damage the soundness of her insights. As one teen-age character says of his parents: "They really are quite decent, when one considers how incredibly dense and selfish grownups are." But decency in these stories turns out to be not quite enough...
...bitterly ironic aftertaste lies in the fact that the parents' agony is not enough to induce forgiveness for their failure to know their own child. ¶Tho' the Pleasant Life Is Dancing Round tries to show how even exterior happiness may fail to reconcile a brilliant teen-age boy to the tragic quota of life. Loved and even coddled by his suburban parents, he does not ask what's-in-it-for-me but what-does-it-have-to-offer-for-anyone? After a fearful tour of the lower depths of London, he has his answer: nothing...
During the war Joel Brand, now 52, was a leader of a Jewish underground group in Hungary whose purpose was quite simply to help Jews to stay alive. There were other such groups; Brand's was called the Waada Ezra we Hazalah, a Zionist group to whom the age-old dream of return to Palestine had been converted by the Hitler terror into life-or-death urgency...
...coming of age in Cambridge is best exemplified by the atlenuation of Class Day, and in particular by the disappearance of the confetti battle. An exhibition of the Dionysian quality of man, a display of unchained frivolity, and a vision of uncommitted youthfulness, the Class Day confetti battle was a gathering of people for the express purpose of throwing confetti at one another according to the dictate of natural reason...
...Unless Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and other sects are merged into or replaced by a great World Brotherhood, sectarianism will continue to divide the world, isolate peoples, and stimulte conflict which is deadly dangerous in the atomic-space age. (Sometimes it is inter-sect strife which causes destruction and death, as in India. Sometimes it is the point of view of a sect or sectarian which hinders effective action, as with the student in my Survey of Civilization course who wrote, "World peace is an ideal which can never be reached, for when Christ cast Adam...