Word: prewar
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...declared: "I am here today to claim the justice that is due to my people ... God and history will remember your judgment." Then, as he stepped down, he murmured the words that were to serve as an epitaph not only for the impotent League but for the whole prewar world. "It is us today. It will be you tomorrow...
...Prince Andrei Bolkonsky on a visit to Count Rostov's country estate, musing on the seeming emptiness of his life, then discovering Rostov's beautiful daughter Natasha. That and the next six scenes depict, with a mixture of passion, intrigue and despair, the decadent social life of prewar Russia. The last six scenes are devoted to the French invasion of 1812. Napoleon struts nervously (to the accompaniment of diabolic fanfares in brass), while Russian Field Marshal Kutuzov praises the people and plots the invader's doom ("The beast will be wounded with all the strength of Russia...
...peasant, Park was educated in a rigidly disciplinarian Japanese military academy in the pre-1945 years when Japan was still the colonial ruler of Korea. Profoundly influenced by Japan's passionate prewar brand of patriotism, Park transformed it into a fervent allegiance to Korea. He joined the new Korean army in 1946 and enjoyed a swift rise, interrupted only once, in 1948; ironically, for so militant an antiCommunist, he was tried and acquitted of being a Communist agent...
...nothing misplaced about that confidence; Essendine, though near farcical in his heterosexuality, is nevertheless Playwright Coward's most detailed self-caricature. The people who dance attendance on him are all parodistically based on people who surrounded Coward when he was at the height of his fame in prewar London. First produced there in 1942, and now revived at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Present Laughter lacks the geometrically perfect craftsmanship of Private Lives and has too little narrative drive to be ranked among the elegant best of Coward's works...
...World War II a kind of colossus, with more economic and military power than all the rest of the world put together. Even ten years after the end of World War II, with Europe and Japan both fully recovered from war damage and with their production higher than prewar, the American gross national product was 36% of the total G.N.P. of the world, including the Soviet. As late as the Cuban missile crisis in '62, we probably outweighed the Soviet Union at least 10 to 1 in nuclear striking force. All that has changed. Today we are in rough...