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...Belfrage's book is no less dated. Editor of the National Guardian and a British citizen, Belfrage was deported from the United States in 1955. He has now written a detailed but superficial chronicle of the persecution of American radicals--whom he prefers to call "heretics"--in the post-World War II, pre-New Frontier...
Today's more sober appraisal of youth is based partly on a striking demographic fact: America is growing older. There are proportionately fewer young people than in the 1960s. In that decade, as a result of the post-World War II baby boom, the age group of 14 to 24 expanded by an unprecedented 13 million, or 52%. Youth was bound to make more of a stir on the basis of numbers alone. In the 1970s, however, this age group will increase by only some 4.3 million, while in the 1980s it will decline. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates...
...work. H.L. Mencken had called her a great novelist. Edmund Wilson, a young whippersnapper in those days, conceded that she was one of the few who could bring "distinction" to the Middle West: "that meager and sprawling scene." Not even he was aware that at that very moment the post-World War I generation-Dos Passos, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner-were sealing the door on Cather's kind of reverent regionalism...
...country's booming economy, however, owes its greatest debt to its own hardworking, low-paid, literate and highly qualified labor force. Under a series of five-year economic programs initiated by President Chung Hee Park in 1961, Korea has imitated Japan's post-World War II climb to prosperity by deliberately moving from comparatively simple industries into increasingly complex ones. Park built up power plants and a transportation infrastructure, then pushed export industries which took advantage of his country's low cost of labor. Soon electronics boomed, and South Korea today exports phonographs, FM radios, television sets...
...crucial partner in Brandt's policy of Ostpolitik, and has formed a more protective Westpolitik of his own, which seeks to preserve ideological conformity -especially in Eastern Europe-by providing more material benefits. Next month the Helsinki Conference on European Security will take up formal ratification of the post-World War II political status quo of Eastern Europe...