Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Conant. They think of his name in connection with the House which bears it. But one of their most cherished possessions was protected and strengthened by his courage and wisdom: the untrammeled and uncensored teaching which they enjoy. In the years of the first World War and its immediate aftermath, academic freedom was under bitter and vicious attack from all quarters. But President Lowell was unbending in his declaration that: "We believe that if light enough is let in, the real relations of things will soon be seen, and that they can be seen in no other way." "In spite...
...Navy could now look upon Pearl Harbor with brutal candor, because it could view some of its aftermath with satisfaction...
...this during the year. In December 1941, they were handed a program by teh War Department, based on a half-hearted attempt at conversion to war footing, with loose ends dangling, loop holes rather than concrete planning emphasized, and confusion, almost to the point of chaos as the inevitable aftermath. And they wee diligently instructed to guide the students in this program...
Young Man's Return. In the '30s, Herbert Sebastian Agar, poet, playwright, columnist and editor, returned from London to the U.S. disgusted with the aftermath of World War I, feeling that there was little in Europe worth fighting for. So he concentrated on U.S. domestic problems. In 1934 he won the Pulitzer prize for history with The People's Choice, a study of U.S. Presidents. Other books followed, but with the approach of World War II Agar began to feel that the U.S. had an important stake in world affairs...
Robert Richards manages, remarkably, to say some new things about the Civil War and its aftermath, and to say them with as much irony as pity. Remarkably, too, he says them as tersely as a good pulp story. More important, he has a flair for realistic allegory...