Best Lines from American Pageant

mathnerd04
Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:58:14 +0000

my very favorite (the only i remember, about the twenties)-

“Many taboos flew out the window as sex-conscious Americans let themselves go. As unkowing Freudians, teenagers pioneered the sexual frontiers. Glued together in rhythmic embrace, they danced to jazz music squeaking from phonographs. In an earlier day, a kiss had been the equivalent of a proposal of marriage. But in the new era, exploratory young folk sat in darkened movie houses or took to the highways and bywyas in automobiles. There the youthful ‘neckers’ and ‘petters’ poached upon the forbidden territory of each other’s bodies.”

I think I’ll actually miss this book.