Word: epochal
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Professor Feuillerat declared that the interchange of professors between France and America showed a reversion to the epoch of the Renaissance when professors from different cities travelled through Europe giving their lectures...
...Serious Scholar will recognize these accessories as relating to an earlier epoch. He will recall the ancient musical show when the comedian's ear, properly punched, burst into full cauliflower. He will, in short, remember the days when musical comedy humor depended essentially on the comedian's ability to fall on his face...
...That we live in a materialistic age as well, is also beyond serious contradiction. These things being true, it seems important for us who live in the twentieth century to pay particular attention to other and less material eras in the world's history, in order that a succeeding epoch may strike a balance between two extremes. On the other hand, it is more than possible that we are nearer the truth today than in any other period of the world's history; if this be true, then the broader our view of past ages the more likely we shall...
...done here, but the amount of "good reading" is considerable and requires the type of student who reads easily and enjoys it. Lastly, this is not a field which attempts to straddle two other departments. It is an entity in itself. Its ideal is to portray an epoch in man's development from as many sides as possible; to take a portion of the life of the Past and, as Matthew Arnold said, "to see life clearly and see it whole...
...50th anniversary of the Colonne Concerts is being celebrated in Paris. The founding of these concerts by Edouard Colonne marked a new epoch in musical appreciation in France. To the general French public music had never meant anything more than opera. Symphonic music was unknown to them. In the first place they were afraid of it. Colonne, then relatively unknown even in musical circles, educated the general public of Paris not only to an appreciation of the work of the old masters, but he also introduced to them the work of the young Frenchmen of their own time. The orchestra...