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...tribute to this remarkable cultural interlude when King Norodom Sihanouk abdicated the throne to personally oversee a 17-year construction boom. Implausible as it may seem amid today's frenetic construction of soulless apartment blocks and shopping centers, Phnom Penh was dubbed the "belle of Southeast Asia" in the 1960s, its buildings blending Le Corbusier-style functionalism with Cambodian artistic traditions. No other country in the region could then claim architectural standards as high as those practiced in the Cambodian capital. Times have certainly changed, and what remains of New Khmer Architecture is under threat. Its founding father, Vann Molyvann...
...entirely. By drawing intimate portraits of the ensuing lives of five of his fellow alumni-all members of Nanjing University's class of 1982-Pomfret shows just how sweeping that transformation was. One of his classmates, who tortured fellow villagers as an 11-year-old Red Guard in the 1960s, ends up as a biochemistry entrepreneur in the business of extracting enzymes from urine. Another rises through the communist ranks by spouting whatever Party line is correct at any given time, thus enjoying a life of chauffeured Audis and plentiful shark's fin soup. Their stories, rife with the contradictions...
...Squash It!” Campaign to Prevent Youth Violence, which teaches young adults about positive alternatives to violence, according to its Web site. Jones began his social outreach career by joining Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Operation Breadbasket in the 1960s, according to the Web site of the Academy of Achievement in Washington D.C. King’s civil rights group was dedicated to promoting urban economic development. Jones was also a founder, along with Jesse L. Jackson, of Operation People United to Serve Humanity, which today aims to fulfill similar goals as King?...
...also a study in the hollowness and hypocrisy of authority. A barnacled 1960s liberal and a man of stalwart principles, he is nevertheless slightly repulsed by the black foster child his social worker wife brings home to their swank Manhattan apartment. He expatiates about democracy and integrity, but bullies their housekeeper and routinely engages in extramarital affairs. Moreover, in recent years, even his literary work has fallen off. He begins to plagiarize himself and rehash stale clichés. But what matters most to him, albeit unconsciously, is maintaining his lofty public image. Essentially, he becomes a parody of himself...
This is a lesson we should have learned from no-fault divorce. Because adults wanted to dissolve difficult marriages with fewer strings attached, reformers made it easier in the late 1960s to dissolve nuclear families. Though there are exceptions, the legacy of no-fault divorce is countless shattered lives within three generations, adversely affecting children's behavior, academic performance and mental and physical health. No-fault divorce reflected our selfish determination to do what was convenient for adults, and it has been, on balance, a disaster...