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...Jorge Carrera Andrada, an Ecuadorian Romantic: "This is the epoch of Icarus' fall, the epoch of burned wings; the poet has become a simple son of the earthly city." (Most of the poets present looked fairly earthly: no-hairs far outnumbered longhairs, and there were only two beards among the 200 bards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: The Epoch of Burned Wings | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

...Shahn, 53, "protest painter," whose expressionism packs a wallop: Ave, Composition With Clarinets and Tin Horn, Epoch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: New Accessions | 8/25/1952 | See Source »

...Epoch's End. Answering the thunderous ovation that followed that wartime performance, Strauss himself appeared, choked back his tears and spoke: "With this opera ends an epoch in the European theater of our time. My life is over." He said he hoped Danae would next be produced long after the war, "when people are in the mood again to see an opera about gods and goddesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Strauss's Last Premiere | 8/25/1952 | See Source »

...question & answer column, the Paris newspaper France Soir was asked: "Would you tell me what the American national anthem is and by whom composed and at what epoch?" The paper's answer: "The American national anthem was composed at the end of the last century, by John Philip Sousa . . . was called The Stars and Stripes Forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 18, 1952 | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

...Vatican spokesman said that Tondi was automatically excommunicated. Countered Tondi: "[The Church] epoch is bound to pass away." At week's end, to dodge an influx of visitors, Communist Tondi moved out of the comfortable apartment where he had been staying. Instead of his cassock, he wore a loud tie and a dark blue pin-striped suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Rationalist | 5/5/1952 | See Source »

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