![]() ![]() But the notion that young people were either damned or beautiful is simply wrong, Professor Fass insists. ![]() ![]() Our images of the 20's may have a certain validity, although they do so for reasons a lot more complex than we are accustomed to thinking. Fass, author or “The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920's,” says all this is nonsense. We also think of the 20's as the time when traditional institutions and values lost respect among the middleclass young, and, depending on your point of view, youth was‐either free to be damned or liberated to progress into better future.īut Prof. WE THINK of the American 1920's in cliched images of jazz, gin, Charlestons and flappers, which, in case you've forgotten, or, like me, never anew before, took their name from the fact that the young women so called took to wearing their galoshes open. ![]()
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