Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this attitude were prevalent only in the mind of Governor Sweet it would not be worth mentioning. Unfortunately this is not the case. The Secretary of Agriculture, as the CRIMSON so well pointed out, wants the youth movement to back the New Deal, and to insure that its aims and ideals are carried out to their fullest realization. But the Secretary made no attempt to define the purposes of the New Deal...
...avoided its usual corollary of general and unfocused abuse. The straw men of football overemphasis and college dances are laboriously set up, and laboriously knocked down again. But in the conclusion of his address, Mr. Wallace showed that he has gone a stage beyond; he believes that the youth of America is instinctively persuaded of the "philosophy of the New Deal," and that our present crisis will produce a youth movement comparable to those of France and Germany...
...well may be that the youth of America believes in the New Deal in this large and generous way. But the New Deal will have to state its "philosophy" with greater coherence before that belief can have any practical consequences. Belief in the New Deal, so far as it has been disclosed to us, may mean any number of undirected and unrelated things. It may mean aimless activism, or sentimental sympathy with labour, or sentimental dislike of the rich, or a simple and natural urge to have prosperity once more with us. It may be joined, as it is often...
...Wallace, in complaining that America has not a youth movement, suggests that the New Deal should induce one. The colleges can only reply that youth movements do not thrive on a leadership multiple as well as diverse, that they demand more than good intentions as the price of their allegiance. They have already replied to the New Doal's bid for support by asking the New Deal which of the things that are burgeoning in Washington they are being asked to support. Many of them will give that support to an administration willing to face the implications of government control...
...knows, Vardis Fisher's books are not cheerful reading, have been called brutal, ruthless. Strong stomachs will find them tough meat but untainted. In Tragic Life brought Vridar Hunter through his unhappy childhood and terrified adolescence in the Idaho hills. Passions Spin the Plot finds him. a gangling youth of 19, on his way to Wasatch College in Salt Lake City. Though college has always been his dream of escape from the poverty-ridden nightmare of farm life. Vridar is very homesick. At first college seems wonderful, in spite of the grimy furnace room he inhabits, the scarecrow clothes...