Word: pre-war
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...Crimson ardently opposed involvement in the First World War, a controversial but well articulated position which R.H. Stiles '16 reversed when he became President in the autumn of 1915. With the exception of "the crew scandal, in which the paper charged favoritism in the selection of the first boat, the War was the only pressing issue of the period. Enthusiasm for war combined with an ill-disguised distaste for Wilson's reelection in 1916 to produce a burgeoning campaign for entry into the conflict. The dark days of the pre-War period were frightened only by a College-wide controversy...
...more or less carefree undergraduate life with the organized brutality they had just escaped. As the adjustments were magic, and as new blood was added to the staff, the paper gradually improved in news and editorial quality, but the first issues of that term were rarely up to pre-war standards...
...into his pasted or painted collages. Grouped together they form a telegraphic narrative of Picasso's life in Paris; "Pipe, Glass, Bottle of Rum" (1914) or "The Architect's Table" (a fitting description, too, of Picasso's idea of the Cubist painter as architect) evoking the bohemian conviviality of pre-war France; clippings from French or Spanism newspapers contrasting the national characteristics of a dapper "Man with a Hat" with a Spanism-speaking guitar. Picasso's use of musical motifs is evidenced by the many studies of guitars; Cubist fragments, staccato rhythms in line and space, the illusion of projected...
Like much of Pound's poetry, Discretions can be annoyingly obscure, especially for those not in the know about Pound and pre-war Italy. But extensive quotation from Pound's Cantos--along with an index citing the location of the verses--makes much of Pound's difficult poetry come clear...
...that the Class of '46 felt the least bit sorry about the sacrifices it had made. In fact, when the CRIMSON resumed publication in the spring of '44, one could almost detect the first intonations of a new reverse-snobbishness: "The handful of pre-war students had too many memories of peacetime luxury," a '46 editor wrote of the class that had preceded him. "[They had] too many good times for them to be very happy this last year, or so they said. At any rate, the Class of '46 was too busy or too ignorant to be so gloomy...