Word: post-war
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YOUR BASIC Red-Blooded Post-War American Kid grew up reading science fiction. He sheltered C.S. Lewis's Perelandra beneath the edge of a junior high school desk; he tripped across decades of The Martian Chrnoicles on hot, tedious summer afternoons; he liked Kurt Vonnegut for years before Slaughterhouse Five became a best-seller. Then the world changed, and he probably has not read much science fiction since...
...Marshall Plan called upon the Europeans to join together in drawing up their own plan for post-war recovery. The plan also proposed that the U.S. should offer economic aid to combat "not...any country or doctrine but...hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos...
...sake, he spent most of his time at home pointing out the dilemmas of a society whose sole motivation is blind greed. It was the playwright who exploited these dilemmas best, partly because other artists avoided the plight of the "normal" person altogether. The poetry and novels of the post-war period are filled with madmen and dropouts but with few members of the overwhelming nine-to-five majority. Only the playwright has generally found his material in Mom & Dad & Bud & Sis living next door in seeming content with the system, and he has made it his business to expose...
...neighbors who have let their lives settle to a low burn and surround the Keller household with the atmosphere of small town anesthesia, which is what the play is ultimately about. Miller has shown us the bankruptcy of our materialist culture, and his play is a song of the post-war American blues...
Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested and tried in a period that was shaken by prejudice and distrust. The United States had entered a period of post-war isolationism, and the "Red Raids" ordered by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer in 1920 were only the most obvious manifestation of a generally paranoid political climate...