The document discusses how the post-war younger generation challenged social norms in America, leading to long-term shifts in manners and morals. Their increased acceptance of behaviors like smoking and drinking, as well as more frank expression in various arts, indicated a revolution in the standards of propriety and decorum accepted by society.

1. Amos Bartelsmeyer and Anisha Zaman

2. The post-war younger
generation's challenge
to social norms caused
a long term shift in the
manners and morals of
American society.

3. Changes in the
acceptance of smoking
and drinking and
increased frankness in
language, arts, and
writing indicated a
revolution of manners.