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Other Harvard graduate schools, which expect the same reflection of the post-war "baby boom," are anticipating that the new draft law will have a much greater effect on their first-year classes...
...people are any longer executed for political crimes, but the legacy of Stalinism has made an enduring impression on the everyday lives of most Russians. In the fourth volume of his memoirs, entitled Post-War Years: 1945-54, Novelist Ilya Ehrenburg wrote that "it is far easier to change policy and the economic system than to alter human consciousness." Russians, said Ehrenburg, who died in September, "have been unable to divest themselves of a sense of constriction, of fear, of casuistry, of survivals from the past." Today, most Russians long only for a quiet life, a little more freedom...
...spot. My friend became a fervent Papandreous supporter in the late fifties, when she learned that the informer had emerged a candidate for Parliament on the Conservative ticket. He had never been brought to trial: in the name of anti-Communism, most Nazi collaborators escaped punishment in post-war Greece. In fact, Kollias, the head of the present military government, reportedly collaborated with the Germans himself...
...presidential election was a dividing point in the evolution of post-war radicalism. Radicals still trusted the traditional electoral process. Martin Luther King called off the marches during the campaign. Radicals worked for Johnson. After the election there was a lessening of desire to work through the conventional system because radicals felt no basis for trust. Civil Rights was a radical cause which gained through national popularity. It appeared that radical demands were being satisfied with traditional politics: the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It appeared that the United States had a president deeply committed to a radical cause. After...
...outlines of Berlin's present political geography were sketched during the early post-war years. At issue then, as now, was the relation of the city to the Bundes-republic. The leftist faction, led by the party head, Franz Neumann, a dedicated socialist, looked at the Bonn government as the seat of reaction. Neumann wanted Berlin to be able to make its own laws, fashion its own institutions from courts to schools. Opposed to him was Ernst Reuter, the first post-war mayor of the city, who sought, successfully, to integrate Berlin with the rest of West Germany...