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...cowboy became a national ideal, the symbol of civilized individualism riding west. The state of the cowboy myth became a gauge of American values, of the way that the nation envisioned good guys and bad guys: the wholesomely, vapidly manly Buck Jones-Tom Mix model gave way to a post-World War II demigod. John Wayne, who had none of the old sweet prissiness and was not afraid of the uses of power. Wayne gave way during the Viet Nam era to Clint Eastwood, the high plains drifter with an almost reptilian indifference to death suffered or inflicted. Cowboy...
...POST-WORLD WAR TWO period has been one of radical change in the international system. The liberation of peoples from colonial rule has ushered dozens of new states onto a stage previously occupied by only a handful. Concurrently, the advent and proliferation of nuclear weapons has given a new and possibly incomprehensible meaning to the concept of force...
...past few months has been a slightly morbid, yet potentially momentous "sideshow": the double invocation by Congress of the 1973 War Powers Resolution. This strange blend of binding and non-binding resolutions remains one of the most confusing and misunderstood laws in American Constitutional history. Its primary departure from post-World War II custom is a 60 day time limit on the independent prerogative of Presidential military action...
...might develop rattles and knocks during wars and speculative panics, but most experts believed it should be left to follow its own self-correcting laws-i.e., be ignored. That comfortable belief has been destroyed by three generations of dizzying swings from boom to shattering global depression to unexampled post-World War II prosperity to the "stagflation" of the 1970s. The monthly trends in the consumer price index and the unemployment rate may bring joy, gloom or, frequently, bewilderment, but they are anxiously surveyed nowadays by millions...
White, who ably reported from Asia until 1945, went on to become a bestselling author of books about China, post-World War II Europe and U.S. presidential contests. Last spring he returned to China for a long look at the policies and processes that have transformed the country over the past 38 years. "I was free to go where I wanted," says White, "and I did, for seven weeks, with only my escort of two interpreters. I got a lot of information by just stopping our car and getting out to talk to peasants along the road: 'What...