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No?aspect?of?life?in?the?Twenties?has?been?more?commented?upon?and?sensationally?romanticized?than?the?so-called?Revolt?of?the?Younger?Generation.?The?slightest?mention?of?the?decade?brings?nostalgic?recollections?to?the?middle-aged?and?curious?questionings?by?the?young:?memories?of?the?deliciously?illicit?thrill?of?the?first?visit?to?a?speakeasy,?of?the?brave?denunciation?of?Puritan?morality,?and?of?the?fashionable?experimentations?in?amour?in?the?parked?sedan?on?a?country?road;?questions?about?the?naughty,?jazzy?parties,?the?flask-toting?sheik,?and?the?moral?and?stylistic?vagaries?of?the?flapper?and?the?drug-store?cowboy.?Were?young?people?really?so?wild??present-day?students?ask?their?parents?and?teachers.?Was?there?really?a?Younger?Generation?problem??The?answers?to?such?inquiries?must?of?necessity?be?yes?and?no--Yes?because?the?business?of?growing?up?is?always?accompanied?by?a?Younger?Generation?Problem;?no?because?what?seemed?so?wild,?irresponsible,?and?immoral?in?social?behavior?at?the?time?can?now?be?seen?in?perspective?as?being?something?considerably?less?sensational?than?the?degenerauon?of?our?jazzmad?youth.? ? ?Actually,?the?revolt?of?the?young?people?was?a?logical?outcome?of?conditions?in?the?age:?First?of?all,?it?must?be?remembered?that?the?rebellion?was?not?confined?to?the?Unit-?ed?States,?but?affected?the?entire?Western?world?as?a?result?of?the?aftermath?of?the?first?serious?war?in?a?century.?Second,?in?the?United?States?it?was?reluctantly?realized?by?some-?subconsciously?if?not?openly?--?that?our?country?was?no?longer?isolated?in?either?politics?or?tradition?and?that?we?had?reached?an?international?stature?that?would?forever?prevent?us?from?retreating?behind?the?artificial?walls?of?a?provincial?morality?or?the?geographical?protection?of?our?two?bordering?oceans.? The?rejection?of?Victorian?gentility?was,?in?any?case,?inevitable.?The?booming?of?American?industry,?with?its?gigantic,?roaring?factories,?its?corporate?impersonality,?and?its?largescale?agg