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...heroism was demonstrated by a man whose career choice promised him safety and security. As a schoolboy, Liviu Librescu survived the Holocaust; but as a professor more than six decades later, he died blocking a classroom door to save his imperiled students. Perhaps the horrors he experienced as a youth created in him a bravery so profound that as soon as he heard gunshots, he knew what he had to do. It's impossible to say how God's hand plays into such things, but no matter how miraculous Librescu's survival during World War II, moments before his brave...
...parent of one. But as a driver of culture, as a consumer niche, as a state of contrariness, the subspecies known as teenager wasn't even identified until World War II, the point at which British music writer Jon Savage's fascinating new book, Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture 1875-1945, ends. His 576-page trawl through the social commentary, memoirs and reportage of Europe and the U.S. in those decades shows how all the indicators of modern youth culture - the generational antagonism, the moral panics, the idealism, the shocking dress sense - were in place long before teenagers made...
...Apaches - wore silk foulards and, writes Savage, "an air of bourgeois hauteur." In England's inner cities, where there were regular pitched battles between gangs - Birmingham's Peaky Blinders, Liverpool's High Rip or the Monkey's Parade from London's East End - the look was edgier. A youth worker in the 1890s noted that a proper Manchester "scuttler" could be identified by a loose white scarf, plastered-down hair, bell-bottom trousers and a girlfriend who "commonly wore clogs and a shawl and a skirt with vertical stripes...
Poverty and lack of education were recognized early on as the root problem of these disaffected youths. Nobody understood this better than G. Stanley Hall, an American psychology pioneer who is the book's unlikely hero. In 1898, Hall defined a new stage of life called "adolescence," characterized by parental conflict, moodiness and risk taking. Contrary to the disciplinarian ethos of the day, Hall recommended that adolescents be given "room to be lazy." His prediction that "we shall one day attract the youth of the world by our unequaled liberty and opportunity," not only prophesied a culture that would revere...
...same economic malaise that has led hundreds of thousands of young and talented French citizens to leave France and seek success abroad. France has the slowest?growing large economy in Europe, the fastest-rising public debt in western Europe over the past ten years, and its 22% youth unemployment rate is one of the highest on the continent. Sarkozy was chosen by an electorate looking to cure the malaise. Assuming he has the courage his predecessors have not had to withstand the inevitable protests and demonstrations, the President-elect will liberalize labor markets, cut taxes, relax the 35-hour-workweek...