The tone of the western press , from the new york times to life , was almost triumphal .
从《纽约时报》到《生活》杂志,西方媒体几乎全是胜利的论调。
What bred the culture of postmodernism , with its dismissal of so-called grandnarratives and triumphal announcement of the end of history , was above all theconviction that the future would now be simply more of the present .