Word: post-war
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...little magazines in America today--small circulation, less advertising, and long editorial introductions. North Beach and Greenwich Village provide the bulk, with the ballast variously composed of universities, small Southern towns, and writers' colonies in Arizona and New Mexico. Most of the little magazines are part of a post-war inflation for the avant garde. In the general confusion which gave culture the Beat, Silent, Sad, Brown, and Breathless Generations, art and intellectual vomit (the boundary has been transgressed) have prospered if not much improved...
Little magazine post-war prose suffers the same division, except it's a gap between old and new. The old: the grand-children of Twain and illegitimate sons of Hemingway who have come to confuse the simple sentence with literature and the monosyllable with wisdom--the crude words and rugged realism of men's magazines and college sophomores. This species of literature is dying along with the subconscious-childhood reverie. The new: Jack Kerouac's bastardization of the picar-esque tradition, the hipster vocabulary, the mystic meaningless words attached to a generation, where motion is meaning and stasis is death...
...post-war foreign policy has ignored the area, and this "failure to continue with a well developed policy toward Latin America, such as the Good Neighbor Policy" has impaired American prestige, McGann, a Latin American expert, said...
Although he indicated that there is no sure-fire solution to the "worst post-war recession," Samuelson said that a sizable tax cut and increased governmental expenditures should be attempted. This added governmental spending should be in areas which could use more financing, such as national defense, civil defense, and schools, highways, and post offices, rather than on projects designed for the sole purpose of spending, he added...
...speech entitled "Politics and Economics in the Federal Republic of Germany," the former Ambassador cited the positive advances Germany has made toward democracy in the post-war...