Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hosannas that greeted the passing of the anti-convivial Jones Law are slowly fading into groans of despair as the repeal of the "Meanings" clause of the book censorship code daily nears realization. That good old institution whereby the youth of Boston has been preserved from the contaminating influence of modern literature is tottering on the edge of oblivion. The virgin purity of the children that so blithly play about the Frog Pond is now laid open to the nefarious advances of "unfit" literature...
...latest play to fall into the hands of the experimental Provincetown Playhouse group is agricultural in background but cannot exactly be said to solve the problem of farm relief. It is a harrowing study of a widowed farmer and his almost maniacal desire to hold, against odds of youth and love, his young daughter. For his motives, see Freud. The play has a certain intensity of gloom, but much of its force is lost in clumsy ambiguity. However, it permits Miss Bette Davis to do an effective bit of acting as the daughter. For a curtain-raiser there is Eugene...
...legend of a Prince that sought his lady love in a tall tower east of the sun and west of the moon. At the present time there are still many young people who are searching for an ideal that seems to be just as securely hidden. The modern youth movement since the war has been attempting to turn the world upside down to find its princess of liberty, and there is every indication that she too is hiding in that ancient stone tower. At any rate, the governments of Europe especially are tiring of this excitement, so the Communistic party...
...requirements is to train good Italians to be good Facists, and if these rules are obeyed, II Duce will have succeeded in resembling Napoleon to an even more gratifying degree. Anticipating some of the difficulties that might arise from the rather unusual sternness of the pronouncement, the Italian youth are not to object to being confined to prison, for the Dictator assures them that any such punishment will not be inflicted unless he deems it deserved. This is in keeping with the main point of the Decalogue which is that it is absolutely necessary to believe that M. Mussolini...
...pointing to the neglect of the study of German in secondary schools the Department of Germanic Languages at Columbia University calls attention to a serious flaw in the training of American youth. This neglect in preparatory schools of a language which has become so important in the establishment of international understanding and in renewed commercial relations with Germany results in a severe clogging of elementary German courses in colleges...