Word: epochal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...names of his well-wishers. Last week, on the tenth anniversary of the tyrant's death, there was not a single mention by press or radio of the man Nikita Khrushchev once fulsomely praised as "our great leader, our friend and father, the greatest man of our epoch." In all of Moscow's millions, only a single anonymous soul dared to pay respects-with three rubles worth of yellow mimosa on Stalin's black marble slab near the Kremlin wall...
...make U.S. men oooo, whistle, and squirm. Childlike smiles and bulging blouses suggested an irresistible, infantile heaven. But those were only growth pains. Now that the country has matured into world leadership, American men go to the movies to see not girls but women. This has even become the epoch of the opulent jade, all the Melina Mercouris and Jeanne Moreaus, whose frank stares suggest a fully ripened hell and provoke an uncontrollable urge to total ruin...
...point that Communism is merely a part of the social revolution that is sweeping the world. "This awakening of hope and purpose in the hearts and minds of the hitherto depressed three-quarters of the world's population," writes Toynbee, "will stand out in retrospect as the epoch-making event of our age. As for the present-day conflict between competing ideologies, this will be as meaningless to our descendants, 300 years from now, as our 16th and 17th century ancestors' wars of religion already...
...achievement: the lofting into the heavens of a bejeweled sphere crammed with man-made magic wands that turn blips and beeps into sights and sounds. With the launching of Telstar (mispronounced by most as Telestar), the U.S. raised the curtain on intercontinental television and opened a whole new epoch in the art of communications. Even more, by its immediate and remarkable success, Telstar...
...text and was largely taught by composers. The Juilliard that Mennin inherits has a flourishing dance department that numbers in its faculty Martha Graham. Antony Tudor, Jose Limon, and a topnotch quartet-in-residence, headed by Violinist Robert Mann. Juilliard stresses contemporary music, believing that "musicians of a given epoch have the responsibility for the music of their time." It emphasizes student performances, which frequently are attended by artists' managers and talent scouts for major orchestras and opera houses. Van Cliburn, Leontyne Price and John Browning were all signed after Juilliard performances...