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...most poets of the post-World War II generation, T.S. Eliot '08 came as close as a person can to divine status...
...Romans if not the Greeks, but Ball deftly sentimentalized the character, merged its cunning intellect with joyously low physical comedy and, perhaps most important, feminized it. Her shows -- I Love Lucy, The Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz Show, The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy -- reflected the major post-World War II social trends, from the baby boom to the exodus to the suburbs to the democratization of travel...
Lewis said American industry is now dominated by large conglomerates formed from small post-World War II businesses. He said LBOs break up these companies to form "more efficient" businesses that are more competitive internationally...
Anthropologists speak of the origin myths of tribes. The children of the post-World War II baby boom, 76 million of them, were -- and in ways, still are -- an enormous tribe. Nineteen sixty-eight represents the origin myth of that tribe...
...real forces of revolution were anger, frustration -- and demography. In the U.S., rage focused on the impersonal machinery of a military adventure that the post-World War II generation did not support and that few seemed capable of affecting. Rage also targeted an inert political system, manned by the middle-aged, that ringed its conventions with police, ignored the clamor to halt the war, and failed to heed the smoke rising from the ghettoes. In France, anger was directed first at a sclerotic university system, then at the Fifth Republic, which condoned it, then at the Republic's architect...