Word: eon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...market for enlightenment. And if "nothing" is indeed its source, they have certainly managed to be in exactly the right place at exactly the right time. It is a Sunday that, by the climactic instant of Erhard's appearance, has begun to seem like an eon if only because of the hardtail, fold-down seats of the place: a seedy high school auditorium on Manhattan's Upper East Side temporarily exalted into a mecca for the awareness/consciousness movement. Packing picnic lunches and pillows, the moderately young, mostly white enthusiasts now relishing Erhard, with murmurs of "Beautiful" and "Fabulous...
...short eon later, at the intermission, he seems to be of the same opinion. "Excellent show!" he calls, slapping the back of the stranger in front of him. To the stranger though, the show looks like Spanky's Revenge: a dog with a pedigree, but nevertheless...
Charles d'Eon de Beaumont, had threatened to turn the documents over to the British government unless he received a substantial sum of money from the French Crown...
...Eon, 47, is himself - or herself - an extraordinary person. Dressed as a beautiful woman, he won the confidence of Russia's Empress Catherine in 1755 and was instrumental in forging an alliance between France and Russia. Dressed as a man, he won the friendship of England's King George III and sent him back useful information to Paris. To and this no one certain whether he is indeed male or female, but Louis XVI has promised to let him return to France if he henceforth sticks to the nonpolitical role of a woman...
...orbit. One of the few signs of future activity at Canaveral is the line of surveyor stakes laid out for a new three-mile runway to land the shuttle on its returns to earth. But the first shuttle is not expected to be launched until around 1979-an eon away in spacemen's terms. Meanwhile, the hulking, $117 million Vehicle Assembly Building, which covers eight acres, seems destined to become the world's most expensive warehouse. Besides equipment for the U.S.-Russian flight, it now houses only the unused spare parts of previous programs-vehicles and rocket stages...