Those who yearn for the "peace and stability" of the 1950s should remember the daily fear of nuclear war that shadowed that decade, as well as the atrocities inflicted on African Americans in the South, the professional restrictions on women, the code of silence regarding homosexuality, and the political constraints on Jews and Catholics. Adlai Stevenson used to joke about "people who want things to be the way the used to be, only more so."