Word: post-war
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Helmut Kautner's The Rest Is Silence is an especially futile example of the genre. This heavy-handed German film concerns a young Harvard philosophy professor who returns to a post-war, boom-time Germany, suspecting that his mother has conspired with an uncle to murder his industrialist father...
...some of these things are done, an atmosphere of some bounce and energy may creep into the offensively superior blandness of Westminster, and if the Common Market alone can bring Britain to understand its post-war role more clearly, full membership will be worth some Commonwealth hostility...
...their true faces. Spinning on twin turntables in peaceful repose were two new Mark X sedans, Jaguar Cars Ltd.'s first newly designed big sedans in ten years. A bustling British maker of luxury sedans and speedy sports cars, Jaguar has become Britain's most consistently successful post-war automaker by virtue of its ability to produce high-quality cars at relatively modest prices...
...around us, particularly among our elders, unfilled and frustrated human potentialties, personalities ground flat, material want, and ruined lives. . . . Small wonder that the first post-war generation could be called silent. In view of this history, 'mute' would have been better. We demand your patience; we learning how to talk." from an editorial in New University Thought...
...glad you're shocked by that fact," Beer said, "because I am." Although the French Social Democrats and British Labor Party have suffered most in post-war years, the American left "has taken quite a beating...