Agreed, Nestor.  The Rockwell painting actually includes only the
partial image of a single woman, too....

Still, the high ideals articulated by the "United Nations"--the allies
in the world war--had a dynamic that carried over beyond the war.  The
most immediate impact may have minimized the impact of the Red Scare.
It certainly encouraged decolonization and helped inspire the civil
rights movements in the US.

To a great extent, the political fights of the 1960s in the U.S. were
seen as--and, to some extent, certainly were--a continuation of that
commitment to a new social liberalism.  The Left was too small, too
repressed, too marginalized to extend this the direction of a
revitalized mass socialism.  (I hesitate to add that most of what
little there was had become too mired in self-worshiping its own
isolation, too sectarian, too barking mad, etc.)

ML

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