2. In any case, an American could not avoid casting aside its middle-class respectability and affected refinement.
3.The war only helped to speed up the breakdown of the Victorian social structure.
4.In America at least, the young people were strongly inclined to shirk their responsibilities. They pretended to be worldly-wise, drinking and behaving naughtily.
5.The young people found greater pleasure in their drinking because Prohibition, by making
drinking unlawful added a sense of adventure.
6.Our young men joined the armies of foreign countries to fight in the war.
7.The young people wanted to take part in the glorious ad-venture before the whole war ended. 8.These young people could no longer adapt themselves to lives in their home towns or their families.
9. The returning veteran also had to face Prohibition which the lawmakers hypocritically assumed would do good to the people. 10. (Under all this force and pressure) something in the youth of America, who were already very tense, had to break down. 11. It was only natural that hopeful young Writers whose minds
and writings were filled with violent anger against war, Babbitry, and \e in Greenwich Village, the traditional artistic centre. 12. Each town was proud that it had a group of wild, reckless people, who lived unconventional lives. Unit6.loving and hating New York
1. Nowadays New York cannot understand nor follow the taste of the American people.
2. New York boasts that it is a city that resists the prevailing trends (styles, fashion) of America.
3. Situation comedies made in Hollywood and the actual performance of Johnny Carson now
replace the scheduled radio and TV programs for California. 4. New York is regaining somewhat its status as a city that attracts tourists.
5. A person who wins in New York is constantly disturbed by fear and anxiety
(because he is afraid of losing what he has won in the fierce competition).
6. The chance to enjoy the pleasures of nature is very limited. 7. At night the city of New York is aglow with lights and seems proudly and haughtily to darken the night sky.
8. But a pure and wholehearted devotion to a Bohemian life style can be exaggerated.
9. In both these roles of banking and communications head- quarters, New York starts or
originates very few things but gives its stamp of approval to many things created by people in other parts of the country.
10. The television generation was constantly and strongly influenced by extravagant promotional advertising.
11. Authors writing long serious novels earn their living in the meantime by also writing articles for popular magazines. 12. Broadway, which seemed unable to resist the cheap, gaudy shows put on in the surrounding areas, is once again busy and active.
13. (If you tell a New Yorker about the vigor of outdoor pleasures, he will reply that) he prefers the unhealthy turmoil and animated life of a city.
14. Those who failed in the struggle of life, the down-and-outs, are not hidden away in slums or ghettoes where other people can't see them.
15. New York constantly irritates and annoys very much but at times it also invigorates and stimulates.