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Kellman, Steven G. | February 12, 1990 issue

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The article presents information on the book "How Old Are You? Age Consciousness in American Culture," by Howard P. Chudacoff. Chudacoff's thesis is that American obsession with and precision about age is barely 100 years old. He links the creation of a birthday industry to the marketing of the first birthday cards, just before World War I. Chudacoff attributes acute age consciousness to two principal institutions of education and medicine. He locates effective compulsory mass schooling in the late nineteenth century and traces how it came to be organized by grades in which student cohorts were grouped according to birth years.

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BOOKS; HOW Old Are You? (Book); CHUDACOFF, Howard P.; GREETING cards industry; AGE; EDUCATION
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