Word: meade
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...KEEP YOUR POWDER DRY-Margaret Mead-Morrow...
This book is a discussion of the U.S. future written by an anthropologist-Margaret Mead, author of Growing Up in New Guinea, Sex & Temperament. Says Miss Mead: "This is not an attempt to take off Americans' clothes. ... It is an attempt to say: In the last 17 years I have been practicing a certain way of looking at peoples. I bring it ... to you ... at this moment when no American can escape the challenge to use what special or accidental skills...
Before we can turn to any major problem of war and peace, says Author Mead, we must learn what we are ourselves. Without this knowledge we cannot judge our aptitude for fighting, peaceful living, cooperation or reconstruction...
...Father suffered from seeing Grandmother "wear a kerchief over her head," was embarrassed by Grandfather's "broken accent." Father carried into American life "the attitude of the second-generation American"-"a combination of contempt and avoidance" for European things and people. So strong was this attitude, says Miss Mead, that it often became the dominant national spirit "in those parts of the country which we speak of as 'isolationist...
Thus begins, says Miss Mead, the typical American race for success. Success, not class, she insists, is the American standard of a man's value, rooted deeply in the Puritan belief that toil and struggle are the proper works of man. "In his parents' every gesture, the child learns that although they want to love him very much . . . they are not quite sure that he will deserve it, that when they check him up against the baby book and the neighbors' baby, he will come out A-1 and so worthy of complete, blind love...