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Youth Will Serve Itself
Lipton, Lawrence | November 10, 1956 issue

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When the periodical "Time" surveyed The Younger Generation it reported that the youth from eighteen to twenty-eight was grave and fatalistic, conventional and gregarious. Intellectually, Time reported, the young seemed "a bit stodgy." Their mental adventures were apt to be "mild and safe," and their literature ran to "querulous and self-protective introspection." There were "precocious technicians" like Truman Capote, William Styron and Frederick Buechner, but their books had "the air of suspecting that life is long on treachery, short on rewards," that disappointment is life's only certainty, and their work was "a byproduct of their neuroses."

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YOUTH; TEENAGERS; BEHAVIOR; TIME (Periodical); BUECHNER, Frederick; STYRON, William
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