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Somehow the attempt to wrap the leaders of the Revolutionary War in radical garb seemed a bit forced. Post-World War II history has conditioned Americans to think of men like John Adams and Patrick Henry as politically stodgy as they appear in pictures in American history books, with their long powdered wigs and tight-fitting puritanical breeches. Our image of Thomas Jefferson, with his dreams of a nation of enlightened yeomen, is sullied by the picture of Lyndon Johnson sending B-52s to bomb the peasants of North Vietnam. The thought of Samuel Adams, fervently orating on the imperative...
...management, the Herald-Examiner recently ran on page two an unannounced two-column Loynds report headlined HOLLYWOOD TRIBUTE TO ORSON WELLES. Wrote Loynds: "Welles' greatest film contribution is Citizen Kane (1941), which stunned the film world with its remarkable cinematic control and invention and did for post-World War II cinema what D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation had done for cinema before the '40s." However, the old man's ghost soon walked again. By the later editions, Loynds' paean to Citizen Kane had vanished from the story on orders of the managing...
...became a versatile writer, joining what he called the "deadly hustle" of journalism. Like Great-Uncle Arnold, Huxley tried to use literature as a social tool. To his own disillusioned generation of post-World War I Englishmen, he was the cynical dandy who wrote such bright and nasty satires as Antic Hay and Point Counter Point. During the '30s he became the Huxley of the depressingly prescient and durable Brave New World (1932) and its vision of a totalitarian future, with eugenics, social engineering and government-dispensed tranquilizers...
...fact has begun to sink in that proportionately fewer pregnant women are seen around these days. But the full force of the trend has been blunted by the alarms of environmentalists about the rising worldwide growth rate and by the continuing effects on American society of the widely touted post-World War II baby boom -including a straining of the already weak job market and increasing demands upon the nation's natural resources...
...twelve months, hourly earnings of the average American worker have climbed 7.4%, but retail prices have risen much faster; the average paycheck now buys 4.6% less goods and services than a year ago. That is a drop in the purchasing power of Americans without any parallel in the whole post-World War II period. Pensioners are caught in such a merciless squeeze between higher prices and fixed incomes that some aging workers who had looked forward to retirement are now dreading and trying to postpone it. Middle-class people are being pushed into such demeaning economies as buying clothes...