Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Burdick had looked vainly for the early '20s Oxford of Novelist Evelyn Waugh (Brideshead Revisited') where the "subtly homosexual youth . . . carries his teddy bear about St. John's Quad . . . boys roar out into the country in Bentley roadsters, and over Cointreau and plovers' eggs have some dazzling conversations "about God and Truth." But, said Burdick, "Times have changed since Waugh was here. The Oxford homosexual today has neither wittiness nor creative eccentricity to recommend him . . Parties revolve around gin and orange which is, beyond question, one of the most barbaric drinks that any people ever accepted...
...youth, Henri Matisse was enthralled by Giotto's religious frescoes in the Arena Chapel at Padua. But not until last year, at 78, did Matisse himself turn to religious art; then he began work on the little Dominican chapel that he had planned for the town of Vence, in the hills back of Nice. When he has finished, the result may be a 20th Century rival to Giotto's 14th Century work at Padua...
...boyhood, family life, first writings and first loves of a writer. It is the recurrent theme of recent American literature, the story of Look Homeward, Angel, of Moon-Calf, A World I Never Made, The Genius, This Side of Paradise and innumerable other tales of sensitive, gifted and egocentric youth at war with the narrow constraints of American culture...
...Johnny does not learn what is going on until he sees the evidence with his own eyes. But in the end, as the reader may confidently anticipate, Johnny is redeemed by Kessler's kindness, the incredible wealth of a generous Italian banker for whom Johnny worked in his youth, and Doris Kessler's chin-up plea that he remember his responsibility to the movie addicts who depend on him for "pleasure and escape from the cares of everyday living." And that, it has long since developed, is rather more than Author Robbins has managed to provide for readers...
...politics. A few are sincerely concerned. A young editor of the Catholic weekly in Vienna told me, "I am glad I had the Nazi experience, for I feel that only the people who knew it can understand its evil and tell others." But the tendency of the upper class youth is to shake their heads and ask, "What can I do? I'am not a socialist nor a Catholic, and they are in power...