Word: post-war
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...group of internationally minded businessmen, disturbed at the wave of isolationism sweeping the United States in the post-war era, joined to form the Council on Foreign Relations. Their chief weapon in the fight against isolationism was their magazine, Foreign Affairs, a quarterly containing articles by leading scholars on the world situation...
...anomalies of the post-war period that for more than 20 years two of the world's three great powers have refused to mingle. Historians will one day ponder the fear of contagion that prevented the U.S. and China from exchanging diplomats or scholars, or from trading officially in even so innocuous an item as firecrackers. They may be even more perplexed by the fact that when the barriers were finally breached, it was done by Ping Pong players. This week the U.S. table-tennis party of ten men and five women is in China at the invitation...
...resulting work- From Here to Eternity- was considered by Mailer to be the best post-war American novel; it is also one of the best novels of any time and country dealing with military life. Its virtues are its breadth, its honesty, and its passion. Jones was a dogface like the misfits and unhappy conformists he wrote about, and his bludgeoning style proved appropriate for depicting men of unexpected intelligence thrown into situations where long-hidden sensitivities are laid bare. The excitement of From Here to Eternity lay in the author's recognition that his spirit of negation...
...Perry J. Culver, dean of Admissions, attributed the jump in applicants to the post-war baby boom, a nationwide job squeeze, and a tremendous need for people in the health care profession...
...That, it seems, is debatable. The opening night audience couldn't have been more appreciative. ("Those songs just knock me out," one lady was so moved to confess.) But there's a world of difference between the gilded gold of the Somerset's Louis Quatorze ballroom and the smoky post-war cabaret in which, one suspects, Brel's songs would be most at home. Whatever merits the original Charles production might have possessed, there's no doubt but they've been lost in the move cross-town...