Word: lindner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Action & the Herd. Lindner sees two main symptoms of this change...
Today's youth has a tendency "to act out, to display, his inner turmoil, in direct contrast to the suffering-out of the same internal agitation by adolescents of yesteryear." Among Lindner's examples: four Brooklyn youths arrested last August, among other things, for beating an old man to death in a park-as Lindner puts it, "a devil's rosary of crimes ranging from rape to murder, and all stamped with an unbelievable degree of sadism." Another of his examples: the New Zealand girl. Pauline Parker, 16, who savagely murdered her mother, assisted by a girl...
Though juvenile crime is more fully reported nowadays than ever before, Dr. Lindner still feels that there is a real contrast between the woes of today's youth and "those classical descriptions of the storms of adolescence detailed by Shakespeare, Goethe, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Twain, Dickens, Joyce, Mann and the rest." These, he says, were all inward storms. "Lust was in their creations, also vast and devouring if nameless hungers, as well as cosmic yearnings, strange thirsts, occult sensations, murderous rages, vengeful fantasies and imaginings that catalogue all of sin and crime. But, unlike the sorry six from Brooklyn...
...second major symptom about today's youth, according to Lindner, lies in "the abandonment of that solitude which was at once the trademark of adolescence and the source of its deepest despairs as of its dubious ecstasies. And frequently this solitude was creative. From it some times came the dreams, the hopes and the soaring aims that charged life henceforward with meaning and contributed to giving us our poets, artists, scientists . . . But youth today has abandoned solitude in favor of pack-running, of predatory assembly, of great collectivities that bury, if they do not destroy, individuality. Into these mindless...
Violence Without Conscience. An anxious and concerned public, Lindner says, has received from the "experts" only absurd theories and warmed-over nostrums...