Word: afterwards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could speak with certainty on U.S. attitudes. Where politics and art conflicted, the U.S. had not always been sure itself. During World War I, Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera (and scores of other U.S. concert halls) had stopped presenting the music of Wagner-only to feel shamefaced about it afterward. In World War II, the Met kept right on with Wagner, but did not present Madame Butterfly, because of the opera's cozy attitude toward the Japanese; it was quietly restored to the repertory five months after V-J day. Since war's end, Norwegian Soprano Kirsten Flagstad...
...baby while unconscious, wrote regretfully: "When I regained conscious ness and was told that I had a son, I remember feeling cheated, having to be informed just as if I hadn't been present ... I couldn't help looking at my son for a week or so afterward and feeling as if I'd won a Packard in a lottery...
...gallery, just to the right of the clock. When it came time for Senator Arthur Vandenberg to swear in Humphrey, 14th in line, Humphrey's father leaned forward, dabbed his eyes with a handkerchief. "He's going to be a great Senator," the father said afterward. "Maybe he's going to be something else...
...Cross-from the Condemnation by Pilate to the Descent from the Cross-in a mounting S-curve of pictures. Since Matisse cannot work for long on his feet, he will be unable to paint the pictures on the walls directly, plans to do them on tile which will afterward be baked and placed in position. He hopes that the painting will have the same sort of impact that he himself once received from Giotto's frescoes at Padua...
...early battle of Mill Springs, but even his astonishing victory there, coming soon after the disaster of Bull Run, did not win him popular suppojt or the confidence of the Administration. Four Union colonels were made brigadier-generals after the battle, but General Thomas got no promotion until long afterward. He was not even mentioned in Lincoln's announcement of the victory...