Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Then she began to distribute petitions to "eliminate such programs." The petitions spread through Washington, she says, "like wildfire." By months of furious fanning, Mrs. Hanowell spread the blaze into 44 states, got 350,000 names on her petitions. Recently the state organizations incorporated into the National Council for Youth Entertainment, talked of erecting a building, of getting after comic books and mystery movies once radio's hash was settled...
...YOUTH (615 pp.) - Fyodor Dostoevsky- Introduction by Alfred Kazin-Dial...
...projected cast of characters kept escaping prematurely from their creator's notebooks and showing up in his completed works. Some of them became prominent people in The Possessed and The Brothers Karamazov; a few (including the Great Sinner himself, in his young manhood) became part of A Raw Youth, least known of Dostoevsky's major novels. Published first in 1875, A Raw Youth has been out of, print in the U.S. for over 50 years, save for a 1923 limited edition...
Readers need not be too surprised by this neglect: A Raw Youth reads like a congestion of rubbery, raw material. Dostoevsky himself recognized this and argued that it was hard to give "artistic finish" to characters who were struggling in transition-i.e., in 19th Century Russia's changeover from a land of seigneurs and serfs to a modern, industrially minded nation, distinguished (in Dostoevsky's opinion) by "general lawlessness and chaos...
Handbook for the Future. Today in Russia Dostoevsky's works are officially permitted, but not encouraged for mass reading. This fact, coupled with the novel's own complexities, has caused A Raw Youth to be neglected in its motherland. Dostoevsky himself hoped that his cumbersome novel would have somewhat more survival value. In a kind of confession of failure he wrote at the end of it: "When the angry strife of the day has passed . . . then a future artist will discover beautiful forms for depicting past lawlessness and chaos! Then such [works as this] so long as they...