Word: interwar
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...took a bit of a breather in world affairs, retreating to the side of the stage as the European crisis unfolded. But it never stopped building warships. And the country would be summoned back to the center of international politics in 1917. Despite the isolationist pressures of the interwar years, the U.S. would never be able, or willing, to abandon its pivotal role. The country's later trajectory would have made T.R. feel justified, and proud. He had always been convinced that it was impossible for the U.S. to avoid becoming the greatest world power of the 20th century...
...leaving the Center in good hands. “She will be a splendid director, she is a one-woman walking encyclopedia of interdisciplinary social sciences,” he said. Simmons’ 1994 book, “Who Adjusts? Domestic Sources of Foreign Economic Policy During the Interwar Years, 1923-1939,” garnered a Political Science Association Woodrow Wilson Award. In addition to international political economy, Simmons is also interested in and teaches a course on international law. Her upcoming book on international law and human rights will be her first monographic foray outside political economy...
...Ballet Russes It's a very convetional documentay-a lot of old dancers recollect their days as member of the Ballets Russe De Monte Carlo mainly during the interwar years. Their memories are interspersed with archival footage of many of their most stirring productions. Their life, mainly on arduous tours, was hard and financially hand-to-mouth. But no one's complaining. They brought dancing of a very high order to places that had never seen anyone in toe shoes and tutus before, they found camaraderie, fun and the ineffable satisfactions of artistic enterprise in their work. In short, they...
...Staff argues Harvard should not be singled out because its flirtations with Hitler were “not uncommon to the interwar period.” We’re not sure what is more appalling about this contention—the unconscionable attempt to deflect responsibility or the reasonings’ laughable intellectual laziness. “Everyone was doing it” did not work on the playground and it certainly isn’t effective when confronted with proof that this newspaper and this University openly espoused the twentieth century’s most pernicious ideas...
...denying that Harvard’s past is not peppered with highly contentious actions on the part of its students and faculty. And no one is looking for a pardon. Yet, while Norwood’s examples are certainly disgraceful, they are not uncommon to the interwar period, when many American institutions struggled with their relationships with pre-war Germany. The fact that Norwood has chosen to harp on Harvard alone makes his paper smack of opportunism, not the qualities of an honest scholarly attempt to provide accurate historical perspective...