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Show Oar "Golden Age" L-iuis Untermeyer, poet and critic ; 'a s that America stands on the th.eshhold cf its Golden Age. D; not .T.iisunderstand him. He did net have in mind the Gold Standard, the stabilization fund or the huge yellcw reserve that the government, has underground in Kentucky. - Mr, Untermeyer feels that the nation is approaching "cultural maturity" in a literary sense, with many Americans chocsing books that lead to "a new awareness of Ufe, wi'h its multiple complexities." He looks for no "great American novel" because we have "too many countries in the United States" and expects instead "rich variety and contradiction." |