Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many an upper-class, conservative Negro, embracing the doctrine that the white man is superior to the black, accepts Nordic standards, regrets his dusky hue, shapes his life toward proving that his soul, at least, is white or near-white. More radical Negroes, notably the younger school of Negro writers, resent the assumption of white superiority, feel that black culture is different from but on an equal plane with white, maintain that the future of the colored race lies in its proudly being as black as it is painted...
Although more men than women were admitted to New York State insane asylums last year, the percentage of new cases was less for women than for men, because-the State Department of Mental Hygiene discovered last week-insane women live younger than do insane men. New York State asylums contain approximately 44,500 inmates. Last year their upkeep cost...
...Very few German girls stay at home now. The younger men accept this as a necessary condition partly due to the War; but of course some of the older men object to seeing women in offices and public positions. . . . My own interests are divided between industrial problems and the Hamburg Burgerschaft (House of Burgesses). Most of its other women members are teachers. . . . Oh, we are not so different from Americans. There are few Germans like my husband and myself, but we are happy...
...evince such a morbid interest in them? Evidently, however, their editors find that the propaganda is welcomed by a certain class of readers; if they continue their researches indefinitely, they should finally succeed in creating a mass of myths and legends concerning the College Boy--the discussion of the Younger Generations having at last become stale. Meanwhile the unwitting object of all this attention goes unconcerned upon...
...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 enhanced by differences of education, speech, and dress...