Sentences with phrase «cold war period»

A 1995 Independent article on the CIA's role in promoting Abstract Expressionism describes these attitudes during the Cold War period:

The exhibition is a highly unusual one in that it centers on this little - known aspect of artistic expression in eastern Europe during the Cold War period, according to the Pollock - Krasner House.

As other artists such as Richard Hamilton and the Independent Group, for example, explored the theme of science fiction in art during the Cold War period, Alario reprises this theme in today's climate.

During the Cold War period, personality testing aimed quite explicitly at locating and even at cultivating Americans who stood near the «average» in every respect, especially in their politics.

The exemption provides a basic property tax exemption, of either 10 or 15 percent of assessed value (as adopted by the municipality) to veterans who served during the Cold War period.

The Erie County Cold War Veterans» Partial Property Tax Exemption (Real Property Tax Law, section 458 - b), is available only for residential property of veterans who served during the Cold War period (see above for dates).

India, Pakistan obtained their nuclear weapons in Cold War period.

In my view it was this cataclysmic experience by the peoples of the USSR which informs the history, especially the Cold War period, of the last 70 years.

It was never this low during the entire Cold War period.

Not exact matches

Every person alive on the 71st anniversary of those attacks holds in their flesh radioactive remnants of the nuclear era — a period centered in the early decades of Cold War when nuclear nations conducted atmospheric tests of ever - larger bombs.

It includes market crashes, periods of high inflation, deflation, economic collapse, a nuclear missile crisis, a world war, a cold war and countless seemingly intractable crises.

Remembering the sacrifice of the soldiers who turned around a desperate battlefield situation and won during a cold and snowy period in late 1944 is a great way to remember the military veterans of World War II.

This was also the period of the Cold War.

Much of the second half of the 20th century was a period of cold war between the countries organized on these two differing ideologies and social systems.

The Cold War was a period of moral clarity when the other side really was an evil empire, and when armed resolve for once succeeded in defeating the expansion of evil in the world.

By all the measures of conventional religiosity the early «50s had been a period of - religious revival, but the revival of the «50s proved to be as artificial as the Cold War atmosphere that may have fostered it.

This was to forget that Vatican II coincided with the period of the extension of communism throughout the world and the confrontation of international blocks in the «cold war».

Since the Cold War, there have been a proliferation of attempts to promote democracy across the world, whether in new democracies or countries that have returned to democracy after a period of authoritarian rule.

It is worth noting however, that the period of dictatorships in East Asia, was during the Cold War when western allies were busy forming alliances as opposed to the situation now where they act as global watchdogs for human rights and respect for the rule of law.

The details: The key characteristic of the Cold War is that it could turn anything into a political competition — even chess, which frequently garnered intense media attention during the period when the Soviet Union was popularly seen as dominating the game.

Robert Aldrich's eye was as unsparing to his stylish but meaty direction as it was to the deeply cynical social commentary he applied to various periods of Cold War nuclear fears.

Set in an interesting period that suggests the existence of the Cold War between the US and Russia, the film lurks in the shadows where trust is a commodity that no one can afford to lose for the fear of sparking a huge international embarrassment or a full - scale wWar between the US and Russia, the film lurks in the shadows where trust is a commodity that no one can afford to lose for the fear of sparking a huge international embarrassment or a full - scale warwar.

Amazon Studios brought the rousing period drama «Cold War,» directed by Oscar winner Pawel Pawlikowski, to the competition after acquiring it last summer.

The events take place in 1962, during a period of Cold War paranoia, the United States determined to beat the Soviet Union into outer space.

The film with the most advance buzz is Amazon Studios» Pawel Pawlikowski period war romance «Cold War.&raqwar romance «Cold War.&raqWar.»

The setting is Cold War - era America, and while this informs the film's heightened period aesthetic, it is incidental to its arc.

Although I enjoy teaching all aspects of Social Studies, my favorite time period to explore is the Cold War Era!

If we must make comparison to Le Carré, and when reviewing spy novels it seems de rigueur to do so, it would not be to the early Smiley novels but to Le Carré's more recent works such as Absolute Friends, set in the post Cold - War period when the lines between state - sponsored and private sector intelligence have blurred.

But I'd like you to recall that the very - long - term data I've presented came in a period that included an all - out world war, a prolonged cold war between two superpower governments, and numerous smaller wars, some declared, some not.

Zweig cites other periods in which investors have been wary of stocks because of macro concerns, like the early 1950s, when the Korean War and Cold War were raging.

Over this period, the U.S. experienced the Great Depression, two world wars, the Cold War, massive corporate tax hikes, oil crises, stagflation, corrupt and incompetent leaders, the 9/11 attacks, countless scandals in leading corporations, the financial crisis and so on.

Nuclear Reactions (Grades 11 - 12) >> Nike Missile Site This program will usher your high school students through the gates of a Cold War - era restored Nike Missile site that reflects a pivotal period in U.S. history with resounding implications for today.

Visit some of our many seacoast defense sites: Fort Point National Historic Site; a brick Civil War era fort at the edge of the Golden Gate Fort Baker and Fort Barry; Endicott - period (1905 - 1908) historic army posts Marin Headlands Nike Missile site; a Cold - War era nike site

The Black Ops storyline so far has covered the Cold War, near future, and a further time period in 2065.

This first solo presentation of works by South Korean artist Park Chan - kyong presents a series of his latest film and documentary works that offers a new perspective on folk religious practices such as shamanism and utopian religious communities, from the period of colonisation and the cold war to the present time.

The period known as PREC (Revolutionary Process Underway) that followed stood in many ways outside dominant constructions of «history» itself, which at the time ran firmly along geopolitical contours demarcated by the Cold War.

Noon: Kate Dollenmayer Kate Dollenmayer is a filmmaker and the Audiovisual Archivist at the Wende Museum in Culver City, which collects and preserves art, artifacts, archives, films, and personal histories from Cold War — era Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union relating to the period 1945 — 1991.

is a filmmaker and the Audiovisual Archivist at the Wende Museum in Culver City, which collects and preserves art, artifacts, archives, films, and personal histories from Cold War — era Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union relating to the period 1945 — 1991.

Zero's vision of cybernetics and technology as a lingua franca that could transcend the geopolitical divisions of the Cold War is echoed in other movements of the period such as Nouvelle Tendance and GRAV, as well as in our own time.

«The exhibition, along with its accompanying catalogue and public programs, brings to light a crucial aspect of the postwar period that will strengthen not only our knowledge of these works of art but also our understanding of this complex period of inter-American relations amid the Cold War,» continued Frank Goodyear, Co-Director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

· Richard Wentworth (b. 1947 Samoa; lives London) will consider the Post-War period, modernism of modest means, the beach as a discursive site, the body, materials and making, new consumerism and Pop, the domestic, the start of the Cold War, militarisation, industrial design, and cultural memory.

Carlos Villa: Lets talk about the period of time from the cold war, to the civil rights march with Martin Luther King, all the way to the seventies, when women were being accepted and the door was open for them to come in and be actual participants in the art world.

A historian of the art, technology, and politics of the Cold War and contemporary periods, Thomas holds a doctorate in Art History from Stanford University (2014), and was most recently a Provost's Postdoctoral Scholar in the Humanities at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

Made over a period of six years, the series brackets a historical period that saw the much debated Culture Wars and the de-funding of the National Endowment of the Arts, the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, and perhaps most significantly the death of nearly 350,000 Americans to AIDS - related causes prior to the development of an effective combination of antiretroviral medications in 1996.

These images and others from the period pull on such topics as the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989.

Years 1900 - 1930 were the coolest long period with average of about 4.5 C, 1931 - 39 were warmer (about 6.0 C, and 1938 warmest in record in many parts of Finland), but 1940 - 41 were exceptionally cold helping Finland in defending against Russian invasion in «Winter War».

The Maunder Minimum occurred during the depths of the Little Ice Age, a period of feeble summers and bitingly cold winters, war, pestilence and famine.