Word: post-war
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...Oxford team claimed nuclear weapons and power are more prolific in the post-war...
...elderly Eastern European babushka must have felt in the early 20th century when she used a telephone for the first time, and heard the chirping words of her grandchild coming over the wire from the New World. We can lament the suburban neighborhoods that grew quiet when television held post-war children in the living room in the hours when they used to play Kick the Can. We can relax as planes, trains and automobiles zip us around the shrinking world--Boston today, New York tomorrow, Sri Lanka the next. We can both love and hate voice mail, call waiting...
Although Calvino's book is influenced by the neo-realist movement which dominated Italian post-war culture, the novel nonetheless has an air of surreality. It often seems like a fable because so much is presented to the reader through the eyes of an eight year old, precocious in some ways and naive in most, as all eight year olds...
...generation or two ago, but one benefit of the last 30 years is that today's college students who continue to believe in their obligation to the greater whole are members of more international and cross-class groups than their predecessors were. Nostalgia for the period of post-war optimism is of limited value because the landscape of American education has changed so dramatically; in its place, students of this generation must come to terms with a new definition of citizenship and recognize the value of discovering it while they are in college...
...February and the spring semester, The Crimson declared that "the post-war bulge is flattening" when 5,200 students--down 200 from the fall--enrolled, and no one was forced to commute to school...