Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lines along which the contributors to "American Youth" believe this problem must be attacked are suggested by George S. Pettee in his penetrating chapter on "The Appeal of Totalitarianism," where he says, "There is one critical point in the field of this battle (against social disintegration and revolution) and one only: if American youth can continue to feel that the American order is adequate in opportunity and hope, that it is worth working in and for, that its purposes are stimulating and rewarding, we are in no danger from any side." He goes on to make two suggestions: "First...
...character building and job training will not provide for America's four million unemployed young people "the sense of pride in fruitful work." Consequently the majority of the contributors to "American Youth" see the necessity for some form of voluntary work camp programe--possibly an enlarged C.C.C. with "a reputation as a man factory, not as a mere warden of sub marginal youth...
...Olympic forests of Washington to shoot elk. Next day he left for Vicksburg, settled up with his guardian, set off for the Northwest. He had no particular goal, and only one letter of introduction. A friend of his father's had remembered that in his youth in Georgia he had known a brilliant town dandy, one Dude Lewis, now supposedly out West practicing...
...American youth is intelligent . . . he has lived the life of a free man. . . . His family environment and schooling have trained him to expect in his leaders practical knowledge, aggressively applied -an appeal to reason rather than to fear or emotion. ... A domineering or paternalistic type of leadership will fail with him, especially if combined with inferior knowledge, indecision, inertia...
...emotional feeling into the sight of a freshly and correctly plowed field, a plain of spring wheat, a harbor of boats, or the smoke of chimneys of factories at work, the rolling hills of Ohio, the irrigated valleys of Colorado and California? ... If American schools would give children and youth some understanding of the American Dream, they must send them out to search the hearts of the American people and to live on its soil...