Echoes of the Jazz Age NATZ VER

It is too soon to write about the jazz age with ______

Perspective

When does Fitzgerald claim the Jazz Age began?

The May Day Riots of 1919

The May Day riots impacted intelligent young men by…

Alienating them from the prevailing order

Fitzgerald claims that there was only a ________ in reaction to the May Day riots

Short outbreak or moral indignation

What novel does Fitzgerald claimed typified the anger at the May Day riots?

Dos Passos’ Three Soldiers

Fitzgerald claims that reports on Harding and Ohio Gang and Sacco and Vanzetti caused…

Our idealism to flare up

Fitzgerald claims the Jazz Age was an age of….

Miracles, art, excess, satire

What countries are mentioned when Fitzgerald discusses the passing of “gentlemen’s clothes”?

Italy, France, England, and Germany

Why did “we” begin combining the South and West?

For folkways and pastimes

Fitzgerald implies that the first social revelation was…

Not as important as the sensation made it out to be

Fitzgerald calls petting in it’s early stages a…

Desperate adventure

Fitzgerald mentions that by 1917, petting could be found in what magazines?

Yale Record or Princeton Tiger

“Petting in it’s more audacious manifestations was confined to the….

Wealthy

When does Fitzgerald believe the Jazz Age quit being about the youth?

1o22

After the Jazz Age is taken over by adults, the younger generation felt…

Confused, puzzled, and taken aback

______ will take the place of young blood

Young liquor

Why does Fitzgerald believe the younger generation rebelled?

It was implicit in the attempt to adapt English customs to American conditions

Jazz is associated with a state of….

Nervous stimulation

When “rich righteousness” failed, elders stood firm with…

The stubbornness of people in a weak case

Fitzgerald claims that when the older generation preserved their righteousness…

They lost their children

Fitzgerald claims the social attitudes of movie producers were…

Timid, behind the times, and banal

Savonorala is a reference to…

The Renaissance

Fitzgerald claims the gay elements of society flowed in rivers toward..

Palm Beach and Deauville or the Riviera

Whatever happened on the Riviera had something to do with…

Art

Fitzgerald compares the neurosis of crossword puzzles to the…

Nervous beating of the feet

How do each of Fitzgerald’s friends die?

Suicide-homocide in Long Island, “accidental” fall in Philadelphia, suicide in New York, murdered in Chicago and New York, killed by a maniac in an asylum

Who is the “bright and alien thing” in the sky?

A young Minnesotan

The Jazz Age had a ____ middle age

Heady

In the second phase, sex and murder became…

More mature but more conventional

What does Fitzgerald claim wa the “essential prop” of the Jazz Age?

Utter confidence

What weighed more than money as a social asset?

Charm, notoriety, and good manners

Why does Fitzgerald believe the Jazz Age felt rosy and romantic?

We will never feel quite so intensely about our surroundings anymore