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Time thought the silent generation’s most serious problem was its young women, “emotional D.P.’s,” Time called them, displaced persons, a term originating in the aftermath of World War II. In fact, as the historian Rachel Devlin has shown, juvenile delinquency rates were rising much faster among girls than boys. In Minor Characters, Johnson quotes Allen Ginsberg’s dictum that “the social organization which is most true of itself to the artist is the boy gang”; she notes that everyone would find a gender switch in the statement — “the social organization which is most true of itself to the artist
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