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...dollar, after opening in Tokyo Monday at a post-World War II low of 120.45 yen, rocketed to 129.45 by Thursday in New York. Against the West German currency, the greenback jumped from a record low of 1.56 marks on Monday to a week's high of 1.65. But no one could say whether the dollar's comeback could endure. The fragile currency backslid somewhat against the yen and mark on Friday in reaction to estimates that the U.S. budget deficit would balloon once again in fiscal...
Anthropologists speak of the origin myths of tribes. The children of the post-World War II baby boom, 76 million of them, were -- and in ways, still are -- an enormous tribe. The year 1968 represents the origin myth of that tribe...
...more conservative history departments around, as critics contend, it also has been one of the most aloof. Popular junior professors repeatedly have been asked to take their talents elsewhere. More than 1000 students flocked last spring to Dunwalke Associate Professor of History Alan Brinkley's lectures on post-World War II politics. He was denied tenure. Roughly 100 attended this fall's post-Brinkley version of that class...
Although Orton is one of the subtlest of recent satirists, he cannot help hammering in some of his points. He uses this campy (excuse the pun) situation to mock post-World War political dynamics. Scenes smack with references to the French Revolution and the civil war in Ireland. While Erpingham views a crowd of insurgent campers, "La Marseillaise" can be heard from a distance. OK, Joe, I get the hint. The campers follow the typical revolutionary pattern: frustrated by their efforts at peaceful reform, the rabble are instigated to get violent to the point of complete overthrow of the "government...
...country is struggling with the legacy of those unsettling years. Experts in a broad spectrum of professions say America is currently in an ethical vacuum, searching for a new code to replace the tattered shreds of post-World War II moralism. Technological improvements have created a national culture, bound together by a communications network. But America has yet to find a new national ethic to keep pace with the development of this media culture...