Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...locale, British Author Peter Vansittart has fashioned a melancholy novel that is sometimes static but frequently moving. Two brothers, Eric and the nameless first-person narrator of the story, have turned their war-ravaged country estate, Kasalten, into a rehabilitation center. The youngsters, turned savage by war and its aftermath, very nearly rule the place with their catapults, clubs, knives and even pistols. They move in organized gangs-Wolves, Eagles, Foxes, Bears-and even boast a secret-police force named Caesar...
Indicted with 33 others by a Portland, Ore. grand jury last week in the aftermath of the Senate investigation into Western Teamster attempts to take over the city's rackets (see PRESS) : Mayor Terry D. Schrunk, 44, longtime (1949-56) Democratic county sheriff until he won the top job with Teamsters' backing last fall. The charges: 1) accepting, while still sheriff, a bribe "in amount unknown" (commonly put at $500) from Teamster-linked Gambler Clifford Bennett during a raid on Bennett's after-hours joint in 1955, and 2) perjury before the grand jury by denying...
...withstood, at least for a few days, two of the world's greatest colonial powers, and he had all Europe squirming in the economic pinch of the blocked canal. But the victor of the November crisis has not fared well under the wasting pressures of its aftermath. The blocked canal has cost Egypt heavily in revenues and business dependent on its traffic; Port Said is an economic wasteland and its citizens in an ugly mood. Egypt's profitable tourist trade has dried up. Nasser's expulsion of British, French and Jewish residents (an estimated total...
...title of the exhibit is "War and Aftermath: German Art in Relation to the First World War." Cooperating museums and individuals have contributed more than 50 items. Among the artists represented are Grosz, Dix, Beckmann, Rohlfs, and Klee...
...horror, despair, chaos and grief is bemoaned vehemently and emotionally at Busch-Reisinger's "War and Aftermath: German art in relation to the First World War." The Teutonic emotionalism of these artists' immediate reactions to terror makes the exhibition an important psychological document. The reactions themselves make it an historical record. Its value as art is a question apart...