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...chemist of some note and during his tenure as Harvard president served as a science advisor to the government, working on the atomic bomb project. In 1953 he resigned as Harvard president to become High Commissioner to the German Republic, and shortly thereafter took over as our first post-war ambassador to that country. During his later years, Conant was to have a profound influence on public-school education, publishing a series of recommendations that have affected the direction it has taken...
Prior to the war, golf was still largely the sport of Scottish emigres and well-to-do American dilettantes, but in 1947 Crosby inaugurated his tournament and thanks to the enormous popularity of its host, the event was instrumental in fostering the post-war golf boom. In 1971 over 24 million viewers watched the Crosby on T.V., the most ever for a golf telecast up to that point...
...Harvard Summer School is a throwback to an earlier era. Prior to World War II, undergraduate admissions requirements had not yet reached the intensely competitive level it took on during Harvard's post-war democratization and transformation into a semi-meritocracy...
...description of their aims, Kirchner's "Chronicle," which was published in that year. With the dissolution of the primary group, and the marked changes in its members' work as a result of their experiences during the First World War, a new generation of Expressionists came to the fore. The post-war generation was concerned not so much with the syntax of painting as with defining artistic vocabulary. Confident of what was now an established language, these later artists were concerned with making statements that were often not merely artistic, but social and political as well...
...modern Germany, the survivors of such mutilation remain as tangible evidence of this forced "therapy," and as witness to the ultimate consequences of collective "diagnosis." The post-war West German government provided some compensation to the few Jewish and political survivors of the camps, but homosexual victims were not compensated as an oppressed group. Laws against sexual variation instituted by the Nazi regime remained in West German legal codes for years after the war, according to James L. Steakley in his book The Homosexual Emancipation Movement in Germany...