Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most of Things to Come is representational music. Its movements (with titles like "Attack," "Pestilence," "World in Ruin") describe a future world war and its aftermath. But to critics some of the Things appeared to have come out of the musical past rather than the future. They were reminded of England's late Composer Edward Elgar. Composer Bliss could not have been offended. His own estimate of his score: "It's all right on the surface. . . . It's dramatic, but it has little depth...
...future anthropologists ever have to plot the world's transition from male to female dominance they may well refer to Their Majesties' visit as early evidence. The most pointed aftermath came from women involved...
France started the policy of conscription in 1798 in the aftermath of the Revolution. Oddly enough, it was the revolutionary cry of equality-even equality in the matter of dying for one's country-which replaced the professional soldier with the soldier drawn from public lists. Napoleon Bonaparte, "Son of the Revolution," believed that "God marches with the biggest battalions"; in 1813, at the zenith of his success, he commanded a conscripted army of 1,140,000 men. In the wake of Napoleonic conquests most countries of Europe adopted conscription until, in the World War, some...
...reflective aftermath of New Year's Day, Manhattan's myriad art galleries last week mustered the season's most varied array of fine arts. Just for perspective, the great Metropolitan Museum invited visitors back 2,000 years with a bimillennium exhibition of hard-bitten Roman portrait sculpture and charming Roman craftsmanship of the Age of Augustus (63 B.C.-14 A.D.). The Walker Galleries showed affectionately executed portraits by Durr Freedley, a quiet semiprofessional in the precise New England line, who died last year at Lexington, Mass. Most spirited post-Picasso lyricism of the season appeared...
Speaking on "The Aftermath of the Civil War," President Baxter began by emphasizing that the background for present relations between the two countries has changed recently from what it had been after 1865. "Germany and Japan have achieved a position such as has been enjoyed by no nation since the time of Napoleon," he said, "and therefore we must realize that the international situation has changed radically from the conditions existent during the period to be covered by my first two lectures...