1951年一个从事社会福利工作、研究社会学的英国人保罗·雷斯利,写了一本自传,题名《愤怒的青年》,当时他不会料到,这个书名,后来竟成为英国战后一代不满社会现状的年轻人的称号。好象同美国的“垮掉的一代”遥相呼应。第二次世界大战后的英国也有这样一批年轻人,他们鄙薄英国的传统和礼规,蔑视尽管已经松弛、但仍旧非常严格的阶级分野,甚至对英国的内政外交也强烈不满;他们当中有很多人受过高等教育,但又不耻为统治集团服务或成为其中的一员;他们具 Paul Ricasley, an English-language sociologist who worked in social welfare in 1951, wrote an autobiography entitled “Furious Youth,” at which point he did not expect that this title would later become the British postwar A generation of young people who are not satisfied with the status quo. It seems to echo the “beaten generation” of the United States. There were also a group of young people in Britain after the Second World War who were despised by British traditions and courtesies. Their contempt, though slack, was still very strict with the class division and was even strongly dissatisfied with Britain’s internal affairs and diplomacy. Among them were Many are highly educated, but they are not ashamed to serve or become part of the ruling group; they have