 | Gerald Eugene Myers - 2001 - 666 páginas
...stoke-holes, and to the frames of skyscrapers, would our gilded youths be drafted off, according to their choice, to get the childishness knocked out of them,...their part in the immemorial human warfare against nature."i49 It has been pointed out that the Civilian Conservation Corps of Franklin Roosevelt's era... | |
 | James B. Jacobs - 1986 - 216 páginas
...sky-holes, and to the frames of skyscrapers, would our gilded youth be drafted off. according to their choice, to get the childishness knocked out of them,...ideas. They would have paid their bloodtax, done their own part in the immemorial human warfare against nature: they would tread the earth more proudly, the... | |
 | Duane L. Cady - 1990 - 182 páginas
...stoke-holes, and to the frames of skyscrapers, would our guilded youths be drafted off, according to their choice, to get the childishness knocked out of them,...ideas. They would have paid their blood-tax, done their own part in the immemorial human warfare against nature; they would tread the earth more proudly.32... | |
 | Peter Gay - 1993 - 724 páginas
...stoke-holes, and to the frames of skyscrapers, would our gilded youth be drafted off, according to their choice, to get the childishness knocked out of them,...society with healthier sympathies and soberer ideas." True to the Darwinian spirit, James celebrated the adaptive advantages to the conscripts. They would... | |
 | George M. Fredrickson - 1965 - 300 páginas
...foundries and stoke-holes, and the frames of skyscrapers would our gilded youths be drafted off ... to get the childishness knocked out of them, and to...into society with healthier sympathies and soberer ideas."44 What fascinates a modern reader of "The Moral Equivalent of War" is that only in its conclusion... | |
 | James Youniss, Miranda Yates - 1997 - 197 páginas
...skyscrapers [thus] would our gilded youth . . . get the childishness knocked out of them, and . . . come back into society with healthier sympathies and...ideas. They would have paid their blood-tax, done their own part in the immemorial human warfare against nature; they would tread the earth more proudly, the... | |
 | Linda Simon - 1999 - 320 páginas
...stoke-holes, and to the frames of skyscrapers, would our gilded youths be drafted off according to their choice, to get the childishness knocked out of them,...society with healthier sympathies and soberer ideas.' This, and thoughts like this, and kindnesses like this, put James not alone among the democrats of... | |
 | Manfred F. Boemeke, Roger Chickering, Stig Förster - 1999 - 506 páginas
...clothes-washing, and window-washing . . . would our gilded youth be drafted off, according to their choice, to get the childishness knocked out of them,...into society with healthier sympathies and soberer ideas."4 James did not propose sport as a substitute for war. He was advocating humble work as a schooling... | |
 | Clifford Putney, Assistant Professor of History Clifford Putney - 2009 - 320 páginas
...frames of skyscrapers, would . . . get the childishness knocked out of them, and [would enable them] to come back into society with healthier sympathies...ideas. They would have paid their blood-tax, done their own part in the immemorial human warfare against nature, they would tread the earth more proudly, the... | |
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To coal and iron mines, to freight trains, to fishing fleets in December, to dish-washing, clotheswashing, and window-washing, to roadbuilding and tunnel-making, to foundries and stoke-holes, and to the frames of skyscrapers, would our gilded youths be... 
