The outline of the period - реферат по английскому языку

 

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  • The Waste Land.
  • Few eras in American history present such vivid contrasts compressed into so short a time.
  • An age of reform seemed to have given way to an era of reaction.
  • Economically, the nation experienced equally profound shifts.
  • Culturally, there seemed to be equally sharp contrasts.
  • In the 1930s, by contrast, the nation's outlook appeared to shift dramatically.
  • Americans in the 1920s experienced a series of profound changes in the way they lived and thought.
  • As a result, they adopted a role sharply different from that of most intellectuals of earlier eras.
  • Modern life, they argued, was cold, impersonal, materialistic, and thus meaningless.
  • The sensitive individual could find no happiness in the mainstream of American society.

 

 

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