Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...given to night in the Agassiz theatre by the Harvard and Radcliffe Menorah Societies, "Matches", "An Idyll of the Shops", and "Hunger", are varied in content; and all are in one way or another interesting. The first, by Liebovitz, has a profoundly human theme, the helpless idealism of an older generation confronting the callow indifference of the younger, a father pleading for loyalties which mean nothing to his children. The conflict is an old one, but it acquires from its Jewish setting a certain concentration as well as dignity and pathos, the rift between father and sons being so easily...
...shriveled trunk of the towering black pine he was, to die of despair. Other prominent figures are ripe young Joy, April's last duchess; mountainous Big Sue, who slapped jealous Leah dead; amiable Uncle Bill, the plantation saint; malicious Brudge and sensitive Breeze, two of April's older boys; intelligent, defiant Sherry, his strongest boy, whose skull was hard enough to shock blood out the tyrant's nose in a murderous butting match they had; mumbling Maum Hannah, midwife, with her jumbled accumulation of animal sense and primitive witchcraft. The tragic quality of racial backwardness and superstition...
...especially for students who are not proposing to concentrate in English. Those who are may advantageously pursue either this or a series of courses dealing with certain periods, which cover the same ground more intensively. The lectures in English 28 are given in successive groups by various of the older professors. English 41 is a similar course but confines itself to modern English literature. English 79 surveys English literature by types, familiarizing students with fundamental critical ideas and terms, and interpreting the purposes and methods of the various types of poetry and prose. This course is exceptionally advantageous for those...
...Older people often complain of the one-sidedness of youth, deploring their lack of mature wisdom. Suppose there were a community in which all the young people were equipped with the mature and more casual point of view of men of 40 or 50 years old: How dull, how uninteresting that community would be! And among the first to raise a howl would be the older generation...
Hugh Walpole has said of Young, "When our generation takes the place of the older men, I don't see anyone who gives so much promise of being first of the bunch as he does. For one thing he is a writer of beautiful prose; then he is a real creator of character. He is not confined only to personal autobiography and is developing all the time. He would be, I think, a very interesting lecturer, with all his African experience and his fine critical gift. He would have as much to say about the savages in London as about...