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...later stages of the war, Bradley was commanding General, under Eisenhower, of the 12th Army Group, and participated in the post-war administration of occupied Germany. In 1948 he became Army Chief of Staff and moved up to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs...
Until now, Wohlforth stated, the American working class's lack of "class consciousness" has made its tremendous economic power ineffective. On the other hand, the witch hunt and post-war prosperity are both declining, he said, and even "conservative" American labor leaders have spoken of forming an American labor party...
...existing rent scale, however realistic it may have been in 1940, has been getting out of line with reality," Perkins noted. "Post-war overcrowding and percentage rent increases have resulted in a system which is all out of proportion...
Hulot is the same Hulot, same pipe, same coat, same well-meaning, bland incompetence. This time he comes to preposterous unintentional grips with post-war prosperity, the modern source of the bourgeoisie that the French have ridiculed for a hundred years. And his skill for satire, apparent on only a personal level before, is strengthened by the theme and enhanced by his fuller control of the production. Tati's broadside satire of the modern scene is sharp, and cuts particularly deep since in America there don't seem to be even any shabby unsuccessful humanists left for a comparison--everybody...
Most of the post-War theatrical offerings have been in English. But by no means all. The most important efforts have been those of the Harvard-Radcliffe Classical Players, who in the spring of 1949 gave the first play in Latin here since the mid 1930's. Since then the Players have put on six Roman comedies in the original--most of them by Plautus. By far the high point, though, was the group's very moving 1956 production in the Fogg Museum court of Oedipus at Colonus, given in Sophocles' original Greek under the direction of Robert A. Brooks...