Word: epochal
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...have no respect for our own tradition. Cultural life today is a unity, although every country has her own tasks to fulfill. We need to have the courage to become conscious of ourselves; then we are able to form a tradition, necessary for every epoch. The most important thing is for those who govern to know what is happening, for them to see the unity of the past and future--the others will see it through them. We need a nucleus of the intellectual and spiritual elite. If we can produce this at Harvard, for instance, we can help...
...exhibition it is brought out how many phases there are to architecture, and good many of which were completely overlooked during the epoch of 'art for art's sake.' The lay person has good opportunity to see how the social influences on building reflect themselves in architectural design, and how architectural forms are in part governed by the underlying structure...
...airplane is an instrument as vital and epoch-making as the telescope, the microscope and the camera. An hour in the air is worth a year on the surface in . . . understanding the works and ways...
House of All Nations brings up to date the theme of Balzac's La Comedie Humaine. Our epoch, said Balzac, is one in which "money is the lawgiver, socially and .politically," when, for money, "people fight and?devour one another like spiders in a pot." Running to 795 pages, told in 104 cinematic scenes, House of All Nations takes for its pot the luxurious Paris private bank of Bertillon & Cie., described by its head, elegant, cynical, lucky, grandly deluded Jules Bertillon, as "a rich man's club: a gambling, deposit and tax-evasion bank ... a society dump" doing...
This week appeared the ninth and cleverest of these jobs: Art Without Epoch, an anthology of 140 examples of "dateless" art from the past 4,000 years. Picked for their impact on the modern eye, Compiler Ludwig Goldscheider's exhibits will be much more fun for most laymen than a walk through the Louvre. An Egyptian mummy portrait* (see cut) done about 200 A. D. looks like the work of a modern illustrator, tricks of brushwork, pretty lifelikeness and all. A Greek idol from 2,000 B. C. is obviously nothing but abstract sculpture. More than...