Word: post-war
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Moravia, leader of the post-war literary renaissance in Italy, retains his now-famous style in his latest work, but loses force by abandoning his familiar, single-purpose approach. Instead of dealing with the story of one aspect of life as seen through the eyes of one person at one point in his life, Moravia attempts to show the metamorphosis of a man from one philosophy to another through a series of singular, often disjointed, events. The evolution is further confused by detailed descriptions of the other characters which have little to do with the theme...
Schlesinger will discuss the post-war tensions in the Middle East, with special reference to the Anglo-Egyptian dispute over the Suez Canal and the role of the United States in the present situation...
...post-war University man is a far more somber, tense character than his bell-raising predecessor of the twenties or his inflamed, rabble-rousing brother of the New Deal thirties. The contemporary student worries. He worries about the draft, about the world situation, about the lack of values, and most of all, about the dim, dim future...
This should not be very surprising, Graham Taylor is a product of post-war University thinking which links the problems of admissions and financial aid as inseparable. He has had experience "riding the circuit" through Western cities in an effort to get the fabled "All-Around Boy" and the sought-after "Scholar-Athlete" to come to Harvard. He has continued to do it this year, and there are those who say it takes too much of his time...
...subsequent illustrations of what WE SAW and what THEY SAW ("WE SAW output raised by tractors and other machinery": "THEY SAW wheels, gears and gasoline that mystified and humiliated them," and so on) is the most mordant and clear-cut comment on the blindness of America's unsuccessful post-war generosity in Asia...