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Something else is new in the mood of the young. Coming to manhood in the era of Viet Nam and the assassinations of the leaders in whom they might have placed their hopes, they see violence as a condition of their lives and a possibility in their futures. But they are not alone; to a large extent, young blacks merely share the larger society's apocalyptic visions. What is more important is the new and insistent image of self. Says the Rev. Edward Rodman, a young black Episcopal minister in New Haven: "The black kids want to define their...
...Serbian men are supposed to show their manhood," presumably by bombing Yugoslav diplomatic missions...
...their own." That humanizing influence can be traced in a masterly bronze Moses from the Mosan area of northern France and Belgium, in numerous conceptions of the Virgin Mary as a regal but very real woman, and in a series of strikingly carved stone heads recalling Hellenistic ideals of manhood...
...dizzy, exuberant book. Augie is tough, cheerful, naive, a searcher and an optimist. His problem: where to roost? The Jewish life of his Chicago boyhood? Wonderful! A spell as a thief? Why not? The university? That too. The book ricochets about the Chicago of Bellow's own young manhood; but if the author has a wild yarn to tell about a madman in a lifeboat, he ships Augie out on a tanker; if Mexico appeals to author or hero, off they both...
...GENERATION, according to Gerzon, has broken cleanly with the past and overthrown convention. "The postwar generation is the first to have reached manhood in a mass society." One can only guess at the meaning of the last term. "Mass society" has been a commonplace about America since Tocqueville, but Gerzon treats it as a new phenomenon. As one might guess, youth rejects mass society because it is uniform. For all his concern about uniformity, Gerzon himself clings persistently to his own set of stereotype images. His stereotype youth with his stereotype youth culture condemns the stereotype adult with his stereotype...