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...Lonely Crowd traced a gradual development from the 19th-century emphasis on inner-direction to what the authors believed was a more other-direction orientation of post-World War II middle-class youth. While finding fault with both extremes, they appeared to be particularly concerned lest the balance shift too far towards other-directional orientation (as they later implied it did in the turmoil of the 1960s...
...industry's Big Four (Firestone, Uniroyal, Goodyear and Goodrich), starting what had been billed as the big labor showdown of 1976. By June 1, according to most assessments, the walkout should have begun to put a serious crimp in the nation's recovery from its worst post-World War II recession. Instead, as it enters its seventh week, the strike has been only a minor annoyance, and the nation's response seems to be one big yawn...
...misty uncertainties about the strength of the nation's recovery from its worst post-World War II recession have been blown away by the news of the past few months. That was the unanimous conclusion of members of TIME'S Board of Economists, who gathered in Manhattan last week to assess the prospects for the months ahead.* Their outlook: national production will grow a bit more rapidly, and rates of inflation and unemployment will come down somewhat more quickly, than they-and nearly all other experts-had foreseen earlier...
...raking great men over the coals, has hardly been kind to T.E. Lawrence. From several "psycho-biographies" and a Hollywood extravaganza, Lawrence emerges as the hidden sexual Frankenstein's monster of the modern age--a libidinal beast repressed by Victorian morality, then let loose and finally destroyed by post-World War I decadence. These accounts have reveled in the sordid side of the Lawrence myth, and there are certainly enough seedy details to make any Freudian's mouth water...
...were long suspected by many voters because of their tie-in with the Kremlin-similarly seem less dangerous. Moreover, a new generation in the West is too young to remember the militantly Stalinist attitudes and often violent actions of Communist parties in both Western and Eastern Europe in the post-World War II years...