Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...PROGRESS of youth through the realm of literature is dated by the discovery of the figure which lurk behind each turning in the path. Just as Shelley and the author or "The Way of All Flesh" point the way at certain crossroads, so the smooth-shaven and deeply lined face of Charles Baudelaire at its appointed time looms up like certainty for those who follow the orthodox road to literary sophistication. As the author of this most recent life of Baudelaire notes in his introduction, the "poet maudit" generally appears on the horizon of his American readers during their college...
LOVE BY ACCIDENT-Louis Marlow-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). This book's suggestive jacket (by archly suggestive Peter Arno) and suggestive blurb cover what is superficially a rather naughty farce. It is actually a sermon on post-War youth, morals, manners. Its upshot: that sanity and simplicity are best, wine better than gin, old-fashioned love better than new-fangled neuroses. To Tony Buckram women are attracted as moths to a candle. He himself burns with a cold flame. He likes women and is no pervert, but they seem to him dreadfully rapacious, scarifying. Tony has had a queer, handicapped...
...occasional black of cap and gown benath the tranquil June sky inevitably hears, like an echo from some forgotten source, the magic words: "Out into the great world." Each generation that has graduated and grown old has tinged this period with roseate vagueness until all the days of youth become "carefree" and all the trees have become immemorial elms. Memory is usually kind to the college years, and the returning grad of the nineties condenses them into a pleasant bundle of names and anecdotes neatly tied with a red diploma ribbon...
...whom has spent three or four years upon an educational process costly alike to himself, his parents and the community and each of whom labors up far the not unreasonable expectation of getting something worth while in return, Ten years ago it was a matter of some disquiet. Youth seemed to be attracted into the colleges less by the delights of pure learning than by the fact that the diploma appeared to be a golden passport to the amenities of the white-collar life and to social if not financial advancement. How was it possible to prevent their being disappointed...
June is with us, and at this season the heart of youth appropriately turns to thoughts of graduation, reunions and anniversaries. But while we celebrate the names of present great, or future great, must we forget one who, through his name has never, to my knowledge, headed a Commencement program, has none the less in his humble way played as important and as unforgetable a part in our carefree college years as many of more worthy note. He first, when timid freshmen, bid us a kindly welcome, and now, as we depart, adds softly a good wish for our success...