ABSTRACT
The individual accomplishments of the twenties must be set over against the dominance of the middle range of human endeavor. The time is remembered as lively, individual, daring, and reckless. At the time of the Alexander Meiklejohn controversy, Dwight Morrow was hurt by an open letter in The New Republic questioning his liberalism. Morrow's character determined the action taken. He lived intelligently within the context of his own time, but was altogether immune to prophecy. The good health of certain American lives seemed to require the long perspective that Europe gave, and many went abroad: the frivolous, the earnest, the gregarious, the solitary, the rich, the stinting. More remarkable even than American who fled to Paris or to Greenwich Village were American who lived a kind of double life, both in and out of the common, ordinary, everyday America. Some people lived in the public eye almost as a full-time career, or at least to achieve certain aims.
