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...attempts to equalize made little differencein academics though, for women and men had beenattending class together since the mid-1950s...
That discussion didn't last long. Lewis wrote in 1947; but 1949 a group picture of the Crimson staff showed four Radcliffe girls, although it would be the 1950s before they were admitted to full membership as editors and business board members, and the 1960s before a Radcliffe student became a Crimson managing editor...
Although the classes of the 1950s containedfewer and fewer beneficiaries of the GI Bill, theeffects of the legislation on enrollment andadmissions were long-lasting...
...Alger's Window: A Son's Memoir is a tender hagiography that makes a claim for his father's innocence--a case so heartbreakingly sweet that one struggles (though unsuccessfully) to join in the son's self-deception. William F. Buckley Jr., who as a young conservative in the 1950s was a friend to both Chambers and McCarthy, gives his version of McCarthy in a documentary novel, The Redhunter. And in Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr analyze the deciphered '40s cable traffic, recently released, between Soviet agents working in America and their masters...
Considering his wealth of symptoms--lethargy, forgetfulness, loss of interest in friends and studies--can there be any doubt that Holden Caulfield, the dropout hero of J.D. Salinger's 1950s masterpiece The Catcher in the Rye, would be on Luvox, Prozac or a similar drug if he were a teenager today? No doubt whatsoever. A textbook teen depressive by current standards, Caulfield would be a natural candidate for pharmaceutical intervention, joining a rising number of adolescents whose moodiness, anxiety and rebelliousness are being interpreted as warning signs of chemical imbalances. Indeed, if Caulfield had been a '90s teen, his incessant...