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Engineers of Souls. Though incomparably better off than their elders, young Russians today ask far more of their life and are more critical of its shortcomings than any previous generation. Youth is reaching out beyond Mother Russia for its styles and slang. "Decadent" tastes that were taboo under Stalin are now status symbols. Young educated Russians are hungry for abstract art, passionately addicted to jazz, universally smitten with Ernest Hemingway and J. D. Salinger (they can read these authors in translation, but see no newspapers except Communist ones). Soviet movies such as The Cranes Are Flying sympathetically explore their conflicts...
Russia's hip generation proclaims its ' independence with a language all its own. For chuvaki, or cool kids, slang also serves a highly practical purpose: it is incomprehensible to parents who may be listening in. To Russian teenagers, flesh-royal (from royal flush) means "the most"; pravilny (literally, proper) is "square...
Author Morton meshes the Rothschilds' sense of style with his own sense of theater. There is often too much jangling modern slang ("chicken feed," "throw" a dinner). But there is also an ability to turn a phrase, and in its storybook fashion this is a lively, well-told story...
Belatedly, the flapper is beginning to flourish in Russia. Called chuvikha (slang for female), she dabbles in sex and tipples vodka, cares more about fashions than factories. Russian cartoons criticize her rebelliousness, lampoon her fickleness. With heavy Victorian moralizing, the press points out the tragedies of good girls gone wrong. Stimulated rather than appalled by all this attention, the chuvikhi lap it up. Last week they had another heroine...
...relieved Sandburg stumped the country for Roosevelt). Item: Poet-Patriarchs Robert Frost and Carl Sandburg are barely on speaking terms. Item : one of Sandburg's most widely quoted statements was put in his mouth by an imaginative Moline, Ill., newspaperwoman, who asked him, "Would you say that slang is language that takes off its coat, spits on its hands, and goes to work?" "Yes," said Sandburg...