Word: antebellum
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Except for revolution, nothing changes a country more than war. Indeed, the very definition of a people often revolves around a reference to war. We speak of the antebellum South, prewar Germany, post-Vietnam America. If the war in the gulf ends the way it began -- with a dazzling display of American technological superiority, individual grit and, most unexpectedly for Saddam, national resolve -- we will no longer speak of post-Vietnam America. A new, post-gulf America will emerge, its self-image, sense of history, even its political discourse transformed...
...what I mean. We need the Greatest Show on Earth! Lights! Camera! Circus!" A bright spotlight shines on a bejeweled woman riding an Asian elephant, who leads a circus parade with all the trappings: clowns on unicycles, clowns on stilts, 20 women and 20 men dressed in antebellum costumes, more elephants, acrobats, a tableau wagon pulled by horses. The grandest entrance is saved for the platinum-haired animal trainer Gunther Gebel-Williams, who bounds into the arena astride a prancing white horse...
...sought refuge in motels or Red Cross emergency shelters have either returned home or moved in with family or friends. Roughly 85% of the 224,000 people idled temporarily by the hurricane have gone back to work. In Charleston tourists in horse-drawn carriages gawked at debris heaped outside antebellum homes in the quaint historic area, and the sounds of rebuilding filled the air. Says Paul Stein, president of a home-remodeling company: "We have at least five years of work ahead of us." In fact, conditions had improved enough for Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr. to send his ; police...
...department has another tenure offer outstanding--to University of Pennsylvania scholar Drew G. Faust, an expert on the antebellum South. Her husband, Charles Rosenberg, has a tenure offer from the History of Science Department, and they have said that they will decide this fall whether to take positions at the University...
Drew G. Faust, a professor from the University of Pennsylvania who specializes in the antebellum South, has said that she will decide this fall whether or not to accept her Harvard position...