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Thus Oedipus at Colonus will be the groups first post-war Greek production, and typically the club has returned to Sophocles...
...this program, almost alone among our post-war foreign policy activities, it seems to me, evoked a sense of commitment and excitement in the nation at large. This, I think can be attributed to the fact that it did open up, however briefly, a new view of our relation to and place in the world. Despite the fact that subsequent events obscured this initial conception, and may even be said to have diverted the plan from its original purposes, it has never quite lost in the public mind the sense of satisfaction and even excitement which surrounded its birth...
...post-war inflation has cut back the staff, for instance, from 96 persons in 1938 to approximately 60 today. The Fogg's slide collection has an amazing 100 percent circulation, and of the 500 reproductions available for the decoration of student rooms, all but 15 or 20 are loaned out annually...
...dearth of training facilities for defense personnel was understandable until the end of World War II, Leach went on, before Great Britain "began to lose its place in the sun and the United States and Russia began to emerge as the major postwar powers." The post-war change became apparent when 60 to 70 percent of the annual budget--equivalent to 15 per cent of the gross national product--was allocated to defense work...
Tillich described post-war Western Germany as a country floating on "economic quicksand." Surprised by Germany's recovery after the second World War, he said that such a comeback could really only be caused by a miracle. He added, "The question is: Is this a divine or a demonic miracle...