Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cultural Correctives. For the reeducation of the Germans, two other organizations were also formed in Berlin: 1) the League of Culture for the Democratic Regeneration of Germany (whose executive committee consisted of Johannes R. Becher, Communist poet, and three non-Communists); 2) The Youth Council for the Eradication of Fascism (whose secretary is Heinz Kessler, member of the Free Germany Committee and one of its propagandists on the central Russian war front). The outstanding feature of these organizations was the collaboration of Communists and Social Democrats-traditional political enemies...
...novels and collections of short stories (This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tales of the Jazz Age, The Great Gatsby) and an unfillable gap in the ranks of Postwar I's "lost generation." Wrote Novelist Glenway Wescott, "he was a kind of king of our American youth...
...first, despite his good looks, wit and charm, it seemed that there would be no prize for young Fitzgerald. His girl broke their engagement because he had no money. At 21, he felt passé-"God! How I miss my youth!" he wrote to his friend Bishop. Then, between jobs, he sat down and poured into This Side of Paradise the romantic memories of his happy college days. Within two weeks of its appearance, Fitzgerald had the cash not only to win back and marry his girl, but to enter the jazziest, gayest time of his life...
...time advanced, Fitzgerald found himself less & less in tune with it. The accent on youth remained on him, but it seemed to have left everybody else. Some of his friends had died; a few had gone insane ; others had suddenly grown intensely serious and were reading Karl Marx. The literary limelight was no longer on him but on the novelist he most admired, Ernest Hemingway...
...youth in Paris, claimed Rivera, who loves a tall tale and knows how to tell one, he ate women. His motive was scientific: to prove that the human species thrives best on the flesh of its own kind. Male meat was good. (Rivera's present ambition, he said, is to taste a rump steak from Hermann Goring.) But female meat was better. Women's brains, said Rivera, should not be derided. Pickled, they are delicious. And, there was nothing more toothsome than a breaded chop cut from a charming young woman...