Word: epochal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...results were epoch making. In both the New World and the Old World, within a mere 5,000 years of the inception of farming, there were dazzling technological advances, including monumental temples, big dams and, above all, a whole new information technology: writing...
...rules of TIME's parlor game: Who had the greatest impact on this century, for better or worse? It is too easy just to say that he lost, when in doing so he still changed everything. It was he who opened the veins of the Bloody Century, an epoch that has seen mayhem on a scale unimagined for centuries before. "As a result of Hitler," argued Elie Wiesel in TIME last year, "man is defined by what makes him inhuman." And while the Reich lasted 12 years rather than 1,000, its spores still survive and multiply. "The essence...
...staff recognizes this line of argument, and its only response is to suggest that in some far away epoch, those mores that forbid mixed-sex rooming groups may also crumble. We would hardly applaud such a development. We cling to the out-dated belief that there are some rules of propriety that are, in fact, beneficial to society and the moral life of the individual. Those that protect basic considerations of privacy--the right to establish a sphere devoid of any calculations of sexual dynamics--are worthy of preservation...
...early 1920s, several states simply forbade the teaching of evolution outright, opening an epoch that inspired the infamous 1925 Scopes trial (leading to the conviction of a Tennessee high school teacher) and that ended only in 1968, when the Supreme Court declared such laws unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds. In a second round in the late 1970s, Arkansas and Louisiana required that if evolution be taught, equal time must be given to Genesis literalism, masquerading as oxymoronic "creation science." The Supreme Court likewise rejected those laws...
...Civil War. He describes seeing dead soldiers' bodies on the ground, futilely lamenting that he never expected to see a sight so gruesome. The play's main focus is on the personal misfortunes of the House of Oedipus. Ultimately, though, it reaches out to a larger historical epoch and brilliantly describes the horror of all wars. The arrival of the Advisor (Karin Alexander), interrupting the speech signals the beginning of the denouement of the play; it reproduces on a individual level the horrific, senseless violence that the general recalls in his soliloquy...