Word: post-war
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...Polish army during World War II, captured by German soldiers, and placed in a prisoner-of-war camp for the rest of the war. While in the camp, he started writing to Le Corbusier, whose work he had become enamoured of in Warsaw. By the time the war ended, he had been offered a position at Le Corbusier’s architectural firm in Paris, which he promptly accepted.He returned to Poland in 1949 to teach at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, but his modernist attitude was not popular with the post-war Communist government...
...those post-war days, academia faced a real intellectual crisis, and it culminated in a no-holds-barred interrogation of why education matters to us, of how it was leading (sometimes astray) our best and brightest...
...longer and more thorough than the nine-page March report. The Draft Final Report is far shorter than the reports of curricular reviews in past decades, such as the Redbook of the late 1940s, a national bestseller that laid out a theory of a liberal arts education for a post-war American society...
These writers, defying notions of 1950s naivete, began investigating even in their college days some of the most intractable issues of the post-war period, both at home and overseas...
Halberstam, who was well known for his defiance of the military’s sanguine reports on the intervention in Vietnam in the 1960s, says that the role of the journalist was beginning to require a more investigative intellect in the post-war period, as the U.S. grew to assume a more prominent role in international affairs...