Painting of three young children lying in a grassy field.

Arcadia, by Thomas Eakins, c. 1883. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876–1967), 1967.

Youth

Volume VII, Number 3 | summer 2014

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Fortune’s Child

Lewis H. Lapham

The Long Goodbye

Michael Wood

Map

Rites of Passage

Miscellany

The Apache leader Cochise takes a long walk.

Edward Gibbon and Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the laws of nature.

Joseph Conrad chooses his path.

Graham Greene discusses Shirley Temple’s “secret” appeal.

Shakespeare’s thoughts on the young.

The Young Man and the Sea.

Lorenzo de’ Medici’s eye for talent.

William Blake visits Allen Ginsberg.

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz takes a vow of abstinence.

Rainer Maria Rilke plays dress up.

Luis Buñuel recalls Dalí’s cooking.

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Modest Mussorgsky make beautiful music.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson remembers Lord Byron.

“Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.”

The bishop of London puts his foot down.

William James feels Gertrude Stein’s pain

J.M. Barrie’s tough critic.

A word of advice from Paul Cézanne’s father.

The famous friends of Bowdoin College.

Edison, Franklin, and Dickens cut class.

Voices In Time

Little Monsters

1688 | France

Trials of Strength

c. 625 BC | Sparta

Arranging an Introduction

c. 1100 | Germany

Godlike Independence

1841 | Concord, MA

Occupational Hazard

1817 | London

Coming to Maturity

1904 | Massachusetts

Love at First Sight

8 | Tomis

Postgraduate Education

c. 1771 | Loir-et-Cher

Boys to Men

1900 | Albany

Beauty and the Beast

c. 150 | Athens

The Proper Nutriment

1787 | England

Sweet and Cold

c. 1550 | Shanyin

Human Capital

c. 1525 | Shangxi Province

Golden Days

1890 | London

Report Card

c. 1890 | Dublin

Oral Fixation

1905 | Vienna

Wrong Move

c. 600 BC | Greece

Going to the Devil

1487 | Germany

Like Father, Like Son

c. 1640 | Oxford

Nothing of Hell and Satan

1844 | Foleshill

Veneration of Youth

2014 | Northern California

Blaming the Parents

1943 | Washington, DC

Five-Point Plan

1924 | Geneva

Paths to Glory

1876 | Nice

Just Deserts

1845 | Germany

The Boys of New England

1845 | Quincy, MA

Milk & Rosy Laughter

1861 | Mississippi River

Elizabeth Bishop Joins the Club

1918 | Worcester, MA

Poor Stupid Me

1837 | London

Life Lessons

1746 | Bath

Status Anxiety

c. 1883 | Günsbach

A Glimmer of Goodbye

1917 | Edinburgh

Count Your Blessings

c. 885 | Kyūshū

Child’s Play

1878 | Grez-Sur-Long

Young and at Sea

1898 | London

The Spelling Book

c. 1865 | Malden, WV

A Time for Ruin

c. 1330 | Kyoto

More Hateful than Vipers

1742 | Northampton, MA

Difference of Opinion

1924 | Seattle

Charts and Graphs

Expelled

Early Education

Child Rulers

Losing It

Hard-Knock Lives

Birth Order

Toy Matrix

Youth Groups

Abandonment Issues

Forever Young

Contributors

Conversations

Richard Steele & Jane Addams

Asclepiades & Robert Herrick

John Locke & Malcolm X

Gerard Manley Hopkins & Doris Lessing

Thomas Babington Macaulay & W.H. Auden

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