Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...DeWolf Howe contributes a short essay concerning fathers and sons, and the obligations of each to the other. He pictures a father who wisely questions the values of an older and of a newer generation. Mr. Pluribus asks whether, after all, there is not "something in the realistic attitude of youth at the present moment--the attitude of facing facts without blinking--which argues well for the future?" Yet he finds that not all of the wisdom is to be from the youngsters; that the father who "looks for honor in these days has a full half of the burden...
...What it the solution? There is no perfect one. The older universities are hardest hit, for they confine themselves to their own graduates, then choice is limited perhaps among younger graduates who have this latent ability but have not found themselves in a business way; or among the still fewer older players who may have this ability and at the same time be so situated that they can devote the time. Under any circumstances the choice among their own graduates may be very limited and, except through a fortuitous condition, rather poor...
CRADLE SNATCHERS-A nasty tale of three young men and three older women, which has attained huge popularity...
...plot of the book has as its theme a reputation of the abuse recently heaped on the younger generation and satirizes the usual flaming youth. The older generation is represented by a publicity craving garter manufacturer...
...children of families connected with the University, if accompanied by an older person, have been especially invited to attend the service on Tuesday afternoon at 4.30 o'clock...