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Through Pittsburgh streets a procession of three flivvers, bearing five U.S. Senators and a Representative, tooled showily one day last week. The fuel that drove their cars gurgled into carburetors from glass jars exposed to public view. And the passengers had the air of men participating in an epoch-making event. Reason: the gasoline in the jars had been made from coal...
...Western world. Despite its merciless dictatorship, its leaders' intense will to power and intense suspicion of any outlook which deviates from their own, if Russia "is able to show that the private ownership of the means of production is unnecessary," it will have opened a new and creative epoch in human experience...
...commencement was cut from a five-to a one-day celebration. Missing from the head of the academic procession for the first time in more than 30 years was the late President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell (TIME. Jan. 18). Missing, too, was the beribboned straw which, for an epoch, crowned the commencement head of John Pierpont Morgan '89. Gone was the traditional confetti battle between the seniors and their relatives and friends in Soldiers' Field. Gone was the reunion parade with its florid costumes, and the baseball game with Yale. No class tents were pitched in Harvard Yard...
...keynote of President Avila Camacho's speech when he took office in 1940: "Each new epoch demands a rebirth of ideas. The clamor of the entire republic now demands the national consolidation of our social conquests. It demands an era of construction, of abundant life, of economic expansion...
...landscapes of a single lone ombú tree, with zinc-white rinsings of the moon, his gaucho dances at dusk in orange groves or tiled patios, his dames of the epoch of Rosas gossiping in red dresses on crimson sofas in scarlet damask rooms, his nocturnes of the old market or the environs of Malvin, his two wonderful paintings of the murder of Facundo Quiroga on the diligence, and above all the strange series of Negro customs, candombe dancers, wakes, the mongrels chasing the funerals on foot, the parades and festivals are an inexhaustible pageant of a rich past...