Word: ages
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...died unexpectedly of a blood infection. Luce, though stunned, took the magazine in his strong hands. From then on, Time Inc. was his company and reflected his view of its mission--a view that intersected, much more successfully than Hadden's probably would have, with the character of the age. So prosperous did the company become that even during the Depression, it could successfully launch two expensive new magazines--FORTUNE in 1930 and LIFE, the most popular magazine in American history, in 1936. By the end of World War II, Time Inc. was one of the largest and wealthiest publishing...
...fulfillment he felt he had never fully achieved--a search so intense that he and Clare reportedly experimented occasionally with LSD, on the advice of friends who described it as a vehicle of awakening. At the end, in February 1967, when he died suddenly of a heart attack at age 68, he remained above all a missionary's son, still seeking the mission that would somehow fulfill and justify his rich, full, successful but never quite complete life...
...aftershock of a great wound, bemused and only semi-articulate, whether they were soldiers or scientists, or great statesmen, or the simplest of men. But in the dark depths of their minds and hearts, huge forms moved and silently arrayed themselves: Titans, arranging out of the chaos an age in which victory was already only the shout of a child in the street...
With the controlled splitting of the atom, humanity, already profoundly perplexed and disunified, was brought inescapably into a new age in which all thoughts and things were split--and far from controlled. As most men realized, the first atomic bomb was a merely pregnant threat, a merely infinitesimal promise...
...national progress, so why shouldn't Americans have the most ostentatious models--with new fins each year? At the height of fin fashion, American cars (with sticker prices about the cost of a Levittown house) resembled the pagoda-shouldered pottery courtesans in Tang dynasty tombs--exotica from a lost age of extravagance. The 1958 recession sent the style into decline. Fin de siecle...