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...extended prime, Billy spoke for many of these. If his gradual journey from a narrowly exclusive vision of Christianity to the embrace of almost anybody willing to accept Jesus alienated the movement's Fundamentalist wing, it brought untold numbers into the fold. It resonated particularly well during the prosperous post-World War II years, with the emphasis on American unity...
...pass may provide the best explanation for last week's Sotheby's shenanigans. Most Americans have never been keen on history--looking forward gets in the way of looking back--and the national memory bank seems to be shrinking further under the onslaught of instant electronic gratifications. But the post-World War II baby boomers--the ones who were in their mid-teens when Jack and Jackie entered the White House in 1961--formed a unique generation in the national progression. They were the first ones born in the era of commercial TV, the first to be identified and courted...
...class is something different for Jardine, whose primary focus is post-World War II French literature. "It's new material," she said. "I have taken certain theoretical approaches on the post-war era, and focused them on the United States rather than on France...
...Alfred E. Eckes Jr. has lately come up with one of the few intellectual arguments Buchanan has been able to cite. In a 1995 book, Opening America's Market, Eckes argues that the protectionist U.S. grew much faster than free-trade Britain between 1871 and 1913, and that the post-World War II competitive position of the American economy weakened greatly after the 1968-72 period, when a U.S.-led round of sharp tariff cuts went into effect. Some students, though, think Eckes is reading into the statistics a cause-and-effect relationship that isn't there...
...tolerance for the expansive visions of business may be coming to an end. According to the Sept. 8 issue of the American Political Report, published by trend spotter Kevin Phillips, there have been four probusiness cycles in the U.S. since 1850: the post-Civil War "Gilded Age" ending in the 1880s; the Roaring Twenties; the post-World War II expansion from 1950 to the mid-'60s; and the current cycle, which began in the late '70s and has seen the merger mania of the '80s extend into the present. All previous cycles lasted about 12 to 20 years and ended...