Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arguments on slavery often served to heat an otherwise chilly room by means of abundant, fervid productions. Just how warm the rivalry between the present parties will turn out to be, remains to be seen, but it is doubtful whether, lacking the lubrication which was indispensable in the older clubs, the speeches will have that old time flavor, and fiushed conviction...
...GOOSE HANGS HIGH?A pleasant snapshot of the younger generation throwing away its pose in time of need and almost overwhelming the older generation with offers of help...
...Significance. Ostensibly the study of the decay through over-prosperity of a North German merchant family, actually an able and complete study of this, Buddenbrooks is at least two other things: A vividly written picture of the color and way of living of an older and attractive Germany that is now, and that has been for nearly half a century, as dead as Nineveh; and an extraordinarily brilliant depiction of the characters of a group of persons that makes it about as interesting a book as has been offered to the American reading public for a num-ber of years...
...world of writing who keeps his or her wits about, needs to be de-moded with the passage of time and the development of new fads and fancies. At present writing, and as I consider Mrs. Atherton, I have little patience with those exceedingly self-conscious members of the older generation who are, to quote George Kaufman and Marc Connelly, "rocker bound"; who insist on their creaking mentality and absurd clinging to standards which they really never possessed. I'll admit that I do not care for the flapper grandmother; but the dignified preservation of a youthful viewpoint cannot...
That the objections to open house are strongly asserted by older men who might have been expected to forget such things may be useful in sustaining them but makes the basic point of view scarcely less childish. It is the point of view of "Don't come in to my back yard"--a sentiment one could expect from Penrod only in his most egotistical mood...