... as that slightly displaced one hundred years of realism, from its beginning in 1830, an explanation for both modernity and history of realism's end in the heretofore unseen horrors of the Second World War. Not only was there no poetry after Auschwitz, there was not any realism either. Astruc Alexandre and Michel...

... Evreinov Alexander Soccorsi Filippo Vittorio Emanuele III Magni Ambrogio Godfrey William Stahl Friedrich Caruso Pietro Chabod Federico Vries Wilhelm de authority obedience non-violent resistance occupation of Rome Second World War Beginning on September 1, 1939, German Minister for Propaganda...

... of the Second World War and the election of the first Catholic president of the United States, John F. Kennedy, that Catholicism became more widely tolerated in American society. In commemorating Father William Corby’s actions at Gettysburg 150 years later, Notre Dame President John Jenkins ironically sided...

... Auschwitz and Hiroshima occurred during the Second World War and, instead of having ended the war, both became a scheme for people to develop technological rationality and to annihilate entire populations. Auschwitz and Hiroshima have transformed society and affected civilization in a way that should...

...To move from the retrospective and nostalgic view of the Restoration that is Balzac's to the world leading to the Second World War that is Sartre's is to cover a bit over a century of tumultuous change, industrial and economic revolution, and social evolution in mores, class structure...

... Marquis de Sade Second World War A devastating coda ends one of the more unusual sections of Marcel Proust’s Du côté de chez Swann. Having witnessed, from “Swann’s path,” Mlle Vinteuil profane the memory of her late father as part of a scene of seduction with her female lover...

...The United States has not issued a formal declaration of war since the Second World War. According to Bob Woodward's account of the Bush administration's response to the September 11 attacks, in a meeting with congressional leaders on September 12, 2001, that “he did not want a declaration of war...