Word: pre-war
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...they are at once both French and Catholic, are often difficult to evaluate, presenting, as they do, a narrow, dogmatic view in the guise of universality. Robert Bresson is French and Catholic (the Brattle also touts him as "a former painter, a maverick, a mystic, and a solitary"); his pre-war Diary of a Country Priest, even at its most honest, often seems wildly improbable and faintly absurd...
Supporting his wish for a smaller freshman class, Perkins recalled the pre-War days when "everybody knew everybody else in his own House." "Today," he said, "you have to introduce seniors to each other on commencement...
...administrators have been crying for years that such a need exists--that at the very least, the number of students admitted to the University must remain at a post-war high level (no one that I know of has ever seriously proposed reducing the size of the University to pre-war capacity). Mr. Harris tells us now that the college has reduced its overcrowding to only twenty-odd per cent over capacity, the time has come to expand...
...what Ehrenburg himself became after he ended his Paris stay in 1940 and went home-Lasik writes a preface for a socialist realist novel about romance in a soap factory ("Dunja yielded to the beat of new life, and whispered, blushing slightly: 'You see. we have surpassed pre-war production figures. Sizzle soap, sizzle...
...Madison Avenue's image of Great Britain, and to many an Englishman it is "offensive and often unimpressive." So charged the London Economist last week in a critique of U.S. efforts to sell Britain and its wares. "The image that emerges." said the Economist, "is of distinctly pre-war vintage"; even worse, it is often "dreary...