Word: pre-war
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...MAIN PROBLEM with Dreyfus in Rehearsal is that the first two acts are not as tightly constructed as the final one. The basic ironies of the situation are apparent as soon as one knows that the Dreyfus play is being acted out by Jews in pre-war Poland. But this tension, latent throughout the play, develops no further until the final act. It is difficult to balance tragedy and comedy, and the play often lapses into a no-man's land somewhere in between. Kanin might do well to cut a scene or two. A scene with a visiting Zionist...
...further research to judge conclusively, and on their interpretation. For example, Fogel and Engerman put some stress on the 1850 census's finding that after 230 years of slavery only 7.7 per cent of slaves were mulatto. Such a finding doesn't appear to justify Abolitionist claims that the pre-war South was one big brothel. But neither does it attempt to measure whatever lesser forms of sexual exploitation of slaves occurred. Or, as Fogel and Engerman themselves put it, "while the cliometricians have been able to construct reasonably reliable indexes of the material level at which blacks lived under...
During the question and answer period that followed his talk, Safran stated that the U.S. position is to help achieve a quick peace, but a peace that will leave Israel with a bargaining position at least equal to their pre-war...
...victory is less than total, Safran reasoned, there will be a return to pre-war conditions, with each side toughening its negotiating stance. "The Israeli position will harden as a direct consequence of its loss in blood," he said...
Perhaps weakened more than other fields by emigration, the visual arts have been slower in returning to their pre-war stature which they typified by Expressionism and the Bauhaus. If the current graphic arts show at the Busch-Reisinger is any indication, recent developments have been more favorable, if hardly spectacular...