Sentences with phrase «in postwar years»

All five of NAR's current commercial affiliates — the CCIM Institute, the Counselors of Real Estate, the Institute of Real Estate Management, the REALTORS ® Land Institute, and the Society of Industrial and Office REALTORS ® — either began or experienced significant growth in the postwar years.

When Ray Spillenger died in 2013 at the age of 89, he was described as «the last of the «downtown painters» — the group of artists living and working in and around 10th Street in New York City, who, in the postwar years, developed the style later called «Action Painting» or Abstract Expressionism.

Although in the postwar years artists once again hoped to get to Europe, few succeeded.

He solidified his unique style in the postwar years by depicting primitive imagery with bold colors and sharp edges, as seen in one of his most famous paintings, Untitled (1949).

In Fantastic Reality, Mignon Nixon not only illuminates the work of this revolutionary artist but rewrites the history of sculpture in the postwar years.

Designed for the iPad, this catalogue describes Grosz's career in the postwar years and the history of the «Impressions of Dallas» commission, paying particular attention to the fraught cultural and political landscape of Dallas in the early 1950s.

Lynch's mature drawings and paintings (many of which are a hybrid species of painted bas - relief) come out of the art brut tradition established by Jean Dubuffet in the postwar years — tough, tactile surfaces mining subconscious sources.

In the postwar years, the wide open spaces of Los Angeles provided a kind of freedom that allowed it to become the conceptual hub of contemporary American art that it is today.

It's not abstract «pure painting,» as that term would be defined in the postwar years (though Tobey of the Big Four tended furthest in that direction).

I have a chapter in Painting beyond Pollock about geometric abstraction and the fact that it was a declining and dying and fragmenting tradition in the postwar years.

Many now see Wool as the heir to Andy Warhol, the next great link in an American tradition of painting that began in the postwar years of abstract expressionism and pop art.

Sausalito developed rapidly as a shipbuilding center in World War II, with its industrial character giving way in postwar years to a reputation as a wealthy and artistic enclave, a picturesque residential community (incorporating large numbers of houseboats), and a tourist destination, and is adjacent to, and largely bounded by, the protected spaces of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

But the details about the town itself, what life was like in the postwar years, definitely came from my parents and other relatives.

In the postwar years, he decided to try his luck in Hollywood, although holding down a real - estate job so he'd have a financial cushion between acting jobs.

In the postwar years, wherever U.S. troops went, cans of Spam followed.

In the longer view, one of the insights of the book is the impact which Los Alamos had on the build - up of large scale, publicly funded research laboratories in the postwar years.

Last week Labour polled under 10 million for the third successive election, having only done so once before (1983) in the postwar years.

This article began with the observation that the evangelical university has failed to appear in the postwar years of the movement's resurgence, and asked, Why not?

Emil Brunner's version of neo-orthodoxy was enormously influential in the postwar years.

In recent years observers of survivors have been troubled by what seems to be a disorienting trend» the late suicides or mystery deaths of survivors who distinguished themselves particularly in the postwar years.

Yet in the postwar years, far from cutting back, the government built infrastructure, welcomed immigrants and introduced many new social service programs.

A lot of the economic success realized in the postwar years is correlated to the expansion of collective bargaining and union rights.

Not exact matches

Conceived as a military aircraft manufacturer a dozen years earlier, Sweden's Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget suffered a cataclysmic but unsurprising postwar plunge in product demand.

The next best 5 - year period began in July 1982, amid an economy in the midst of one of the worst recessions in the postwar period, featuring double - digit levels of unemployment and interest rates.

The postwar trade partnership, which worked so well during the «miracle» years of Japanese growth, has been in decline since the collapse of Japan's «bubble...

In short, the failure to respond to the Great Recession the way we responded to the other postwar recession of similar magnitude entirely explains why the U.S. economy is not fully recovered seven years after the Great Recession ended.

The second cyclical factor that has had a major impact on our exports and business investment is the protracted recovery of the US economy — the slowest in the postwar period.10 When oil and other commodity prices rose in the years before the 2014 oil price shock, so did our dollar, making our non-commodity exports to the United States less competitive and reinforcing the ongoing shift from manufacturing to services.

Especially in the immediate postwar years, they were the representatives of a clear - thinking, tough - minded liberalism that Arthur Schlesinger Jr. once called, a long time ago, «the vital center.»

Not only were these churches leveling off from the heady gains of the postwar revival era (the main Presbyterian bodies from 1940 to 1960 had gained adherents at more than twice the rate of the preceding 20 years), but just as important, even more than before they were «losing» members and potential members because the regions in which they were strongest were «losing» population.

Within five years of President Kennedy's assassination in 1963, however, the postwar internationalist consensus disintegrated, and isolationism reemerged as a powerful force in American public life: not an isolationism fearful of America becoming contaminated by the world but the isolationism of the New Left, convinced that America itself was poison in and for the world.

The example of postwar Kenya, where the total fertility rate apparently rose from about six to nearly eight during a generation of substantial improvements in health, and despite nearly twenty years of family planning efforts, should make it clear that increasing parents» freedom to choose will serve the purposes of parents, whether or not these are in accordance with the preference or ideology of the government and its advisers.

Finally, if overpopulation is indicated by unemployment (not strictly speaking a demographic measure, but one that is sometimes used as such), it would seem that the United States experienced serious overpopulation during the Depression (when fertility fell below replacement levels), and was least overpopulated in the mid-1960s (the years directly following the postwar baby boom).

What sustained the editors through all the years was articulated at the very beginning of the postwar period in an August 22, 1945.

Time in 1966 said that the postwar religious revival was over, just a few years before the explosion of attendance at evangelical churches.

The rigors of living in isolation in those difficult postwar years took a toll on the Brunners, but they had no regrets.

Moreover, the often bloody drama of the postwar transition to responsive and responsible government in Iraq» a society that suffered for thirty years under the lash of a regime that rivaled those of Pol Pot and Kim Il Sung for viciousness» has guaranteed that the seismic shocks generated by the Iraq War will affect world politics for years, and likely decades, to come.

In the heady postwar years, hundreds of promising studies were conducted in the United States, Canada, and Europe on the use of LSD and other psychedelics, like peyote, to treat such psychiatric maladies as schizophrenia, autism, drug addiction, alcoholism, and chronic depressioIn the heady postwar years, hundreds of promising studies were conducted in the United States, Canada, and Europe on the use of LSD and other psychedelics, like peyote, to treat such psychiatric maladies as schizophrenia, autism, drug addiction, alcoholism, and chronic depressioin the United States, Canada, and Europe on the use of LSD and other psychedelics, like peyote, to treat such psychiatric maladies as schizophrenia, autism, drug addiction, alcoholism, and chronic depression.

The peak is a mystery to demographers, who note that it occurred in the midst of a 15 - year slide in the number of college - age students that followed the end of the postwar baby boom.

According to a new theory of predation — published late last year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)-- humans sharply reduced the orcas» main source of food in the 1950s with the postwar explosion of industrial whaling.

The postwar years led to «an enormous upswing in science,» he says.

The next year, he was cast in his first movie as the protagonist in Queen and Country, John Boorman's sequel to his Oscar - nominated Hope and Glory, as a young soldier trying to make his way in postwar England.

Since it premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year, The Wind Rises has been the object of controversy for everything from its matter - of - fact depiction of the ubiquity of cigarettes in the postwar era (in one of my favorite scenes, Jiro and Honjo sit together in their Tokyo flat, chain - smoking in friendly silence) to its alleged trivialization of Japan's role in some of the worst atrocities of the 20th century.

Davies's melodrama set in postwar London constantly drifts in and out of a distressed woman's memories and has one of the year's best performances by Rachel Weisz.

It's a treatment so intimate that it begins with the future queen's father, King George VI (Jared Harris, Mad Men), coughing up blood on the day before her wedding - foreshadowing the death that will make his daughter queen - and sweeping enough to place the private lives of the royal family against the backdrop of a postwar Britain where Winston Churchill (John Lithgow) is in his final years as prime minister.

Behind their unwavering commitments may be the terrible trials these countries suffered in World War II and the postwar years.

The real story of their rivalry is more interesting than the rumours, says Karl Ludvigsen / In Wolf in sheep's clothing, John Warburton tells the intriguing story of an unusual Vintage Vauxhall saloon that has recently returned to the road / Paul d'Orléans travels to Villa d'Este, the most glamorous concours of them all, where this year a postwar Alfa Romeo took a surprise win / The Eric Longden light car was the eponymous creation of an Australian jockey and theatrical agent who had emigrated to LondoIn Wolf in sheep's clothing, John Warburton tells the intriguing story of an unusual Vintage Vauxhall saloon that has recently returned to the road / Paul d'Orléans travels to Villa d'Este, the most glamorous concours of them all, where this year a postwar Alfa Romeo took a surprise win / The Eric Longden light car was the eponymous creation of an Australian jockey and theatrical agent who had emigrated to Londoin sheep's clothing, John Warburton tells the intriguing story of an unusual Vintage Vauxhall saloon that has recently returned to the road / Paul d'Orléans travels to Villa d'Este, the most glamorous concours of them all, where this year a postwar Alfa Romeo took a surprise win / The Eric Longden light car was the eponymous creation of an Australian jockey and theatrical agent who had emigrated to London.

After the 1954 Ferrari 375 MM was driven up onto the stage in a shower of confetti as the Best in Show, I was surprised to learn that it is only the seventh postwar car in the history of the 64 - year - old concours to win Best in Show and, believe it or not, the first - ever Ferrari to win.

Though a rift separates the two women for a good number of years, their friendship remains at the heart of the novel as Quinn explores a bevy of subjects, including sexuality, shifting gender roles and questions of identity in postwar England.

It's been nearly six years since Janice Y.K. Lee made her fiction debut with The Piano Teacher, an «exceptional first novel» set in postwar Hong Kong where Allied occupiers and the native people negotiate an uneasy peace and a brittle, stratified society (read our review).

Narrated by the twenty - year - old Esme, The Magnificent Esme Wells moves between pre — WWII Hollywood and postwar Las Vegas - a golden age when Jewish gangsters and movie moguls were often indistinguishable in looks and behavior.