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...fabricated Kenyapithecus africanus from bone fragments that he and other scientists had dug from the ground as long ago as 1947. Until recently, he himself had classified many of these fragments as belonging to apelike creatures called Sivapithecus africanus and Proconsul, which lived in Kenya during the Lower Miocene epoch, about 20 million years...
...Behind the New York Yankees' Whitey Ford (.698) and Bob Caruthers (.700), an ace of another epoch who retired...
...Gaulle responded not with promises but with exhortation. "We want the region to adapt to its difficulties," he said, "to triumph over them. It is the men, and not only the things, that must learn to adapt themselves to our epoch." With that he swept on to nearby Dunkirk, to be greeted by a protest strike of 6,000 steel-and dockworkers. In Calais, the reception was a bit warmer: Mayor Jacques Vendroux is the brother of De Gaulle's wife Yvonne...
...Grail which motivates this glowing silkworm's Quest from coast to coast appears to be some mystic sense of Nowness, which, once possessed, will be the journalistic scoop of an epoch. Mainland commitment is no good, because "the moment you become a partisan of any cause you commit yourself to ideas fifty years old, because that's how long it takes an idea to become a cause.... George Orwell said everything that needs to be said about the current international scene in 1948." Well, statements like this don't quite read as cleverly as they speak, and neither does...
...lonely plains and mountains a new testing ground. Outstanding was Albert Bierstadt, whose monumental views of the Rockies, with their Wagnerian thunder and soaring rainbows , earned him $35,000 a canvas. But so rapidwas the conquest of the continent that even the Bierstadt outlived his epoch. By the time of his death in 1902; artistic concert was already shifting from the grandeur of the West to cityscapes, from God given wilderness to man-made America...