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Show Sophistication Sophisticatio Is Going Out- Out OutYouth OutO OutYouth Out - O 8 Youth Doffing the Soiled Mantle iantle of ofThose ofThose ofv Those Embittered by Disappointment A COLLEGE DEAN sald said recent recent- recently . - L ly that being bemg sophisticated soplustIcated ISgomg isgoing is going gomg out of fashion . Can it be true that the craze for forsoplustlcabonto forsophisticationto forsophistication soplustlcabon-to soplustlcabon to sophistication-to sophistication - to appear blase , to toseem toseem toseem seem worldly wise , to know It Itall itall itall all , to be hard-boiled hard boiled hard-bolied bolied - and con- con contemptuous contetnptuous con'tcmptuous contcmptuous ' - temptuous tetnptuous of the simple sunple thmgs- thmgs things- things thmgscan thingscan things thingscan - can it be true that modern youth youthis youthis is through with it ? And why ? Is the advent of old oldfashIOned oldfashioned oldfashioned fashIOned hats and ruffles so m- m in- in mfluencmg influencmg in influencing - fluencing fluencmg our point pomt of view that thatmodern thatmodern modern youth now wants to throw throwsophIstIcatIon throwsophistication throwsophistication sophIstIcatIon into mto the discard ? I think thmk I know the r reason ason , says saysa a woman writer of o mternatlonal international mternatlonalreputatIon internationalreputation internationalreputation reputatIon . Modern Youth must musthave musthave musthave have found out the real meanmg meaning meanmgof meaningof meaningof of the word . Poring Pormg over their theirdictIonarIes theirdictionaries theirdictionaries dictIonarIes they must have ac- ac accidently accidently ac-cidently ac cidently - - cidently bumped into mto the deriva denva- denva deriva- denvatIon derivation derivation - - tion of "sophisticated sophisticated "sophlsbcated sophlsbcated " " For "sophisticated sophisticated "SOphIshcated SOphIshcated " " mea means meansadulterated meansadulterated n s sadulterated adulterated . Look it up and see see1f seeif seeif 1f if it doesn't doesnt ' ! 1 ! 1And And come to think thmk of it , it itcouldn't itcouldn't itcouldn't itcouldnt couldn't couldnt ' have a better name . , If Ifthe Ifthe Ifthe the wisest of us had tried to put puta puta a fitting fittmg label on that loss of ofyouth's ofyouth's ofyouth's ofyouths youth's youths ' natural a and n d beaut beautiful beautifulfreshness beautifulfreshness ul ulfreshness freshness - if 1f a genius hao haC hae ' tried triedto triedto triedto to express e"Cpress eCpress " that warping warpmg of stand stand- standards standards standards - ards , that tainting tamtmg of taste , that thatsourmg thatsouring thatsouring sourmg souring of outlook , that premature prematureagmg prematureaging prematureaging agmg aging of all the sensibilities he hecould hecould hecould could have manufactured no nobetter nobetter nobetter better word than "sophisticated sophisticated "soplushcatcd soplushcatcd " " For sophistication SOphlshcatIon is an adulter- adulter - - ation ahon of viewpoint , of judgment judgmentof , of taste by the taint tamt of frustra frostra- frostra frustra- frostrabon frustration frustration - - tion bon , the bitterness of disillusion dlslIluslon- dlslIluslon disillusion- disillusionment dlslIluslonment disillusionment - - ment , , the poison pOlson of disappoint dlsappomt- dlsappomt disappoint- dlsappomtment disappointment disappointment - ment , , the dregs of the cup of ofpoor ofpoor ofpoor poor e experience perlence . . True , life hfe is not notall notall notall all beauty or JOY Ioy ] oy or perfectIon perfection.Neither perfectionNeither . Neither is 15 it all bitter bltter or sour or orwrong orwrong orwrong wrong . One of the most powerful weap weap- weapons weapons - . ons ens m In the hands of yout . * , is Its Itsfreshness itsfreshness itsfreshness freshness , its faith to write wnte on onIts onits onits Its own slate only beauty and andperfectIon andperfection andperfection perfectIon . And when youth pre pre- prematurely pre- pre prematurely prematurely - - maturely dons the soiled and andshabby andshabby andshabby shabby mantle of those who have haveknown haveknown haveknown known disappointment dlsappomtment and fail fail- failure failure failure - ure , it does right to call this tlus by bythe bythe bythe the name "sophistication sophistication " " " - a asynonym asynonym asynonym synonym of adulteration . 0 Cell Dell Bell SyndicateWNU Syndicate -WNU WNU - WNU Service . . |