Maybe forgotten isnt the right word, for the Baby Boomers fought adulthoodevery step of the way. About the time we should have been taking on grownup
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Against Eternal Youth First Things ^<http://print.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0508/opinion/green.html>| Aug/Sep 2005 | Frederica Mathews-Green
Excerpt: Im a fan of old movies, the black-and-whites from the 1930s and 1940s, in part because of what they reveal about how American culture has changed. The adults in these films carry themselves differently. They dont walk and speak the way we do. Its often hard to figure out how old the characters are supposed to beas though they were portraying a phase of the human life-cycle that we dont have any more.
Take the 1934 film Imitation of Life. Here Claudette Colbert portrays a young widow who builds a successful business. (Selling pancakes, actually. Well, its more believable if you see the whole movie.) Shes poised and elegant, with the lustrous voice and magnificent cheekbones that made her a star. But how old is she supposed to be? In terms of the story, she cant be much more than thirty, but she moves like a queen. Today even people much older dont have that kind of presenceand Colbert was thirty-one when the movie came out.
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