Word: epochal
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From the belle to the nuclear epoch, the world recalled in both these books seems remote from history. Mellons, Fricks, Altmans and Rockefellers vie for Giorgiones, Titians, Bellinis and Botticellis, while offstage monarchies disintegrate, nation-states aggressively come of age, and men are pulped in the trenches. There is a certain amount of glee in reading about rich innocents abroad who retained Berenson as an art consultant without knowing the extent of his ties to Duveen and other dealers. If the "squillionaires," as Berenson called them, did not always get what they paid for, they at least got royal treatment...
With only 22 months left to the Reagan presidency, the 1988 campaign is coalescing, auguring the start of another cycle in U. S. history. Candidates talk of moving Government away from conservatism toward activism. Will the new epoch herald a return to a spirit of engagement? TIME' s Lance Morrow examines Reagan' s legacy and ponders the future. See ESSAY...
...three commission members (Tower plus former Secretary of State Ed Muskie and former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft) and their staff of 21 interviewed 56 witnesses, including the three former Presidents and Reagan, who in two hours and 25 minutes of questioning cracked only one joke, an epoch of solemnity. Transcripts of other sessions are encyclopedic. Extracting the critical facts in three months, an investigative equivalent of the 40-yard dash, often kept the staff on duty through weekends and into the early hours...
...youth inward, recruiting thousands of students to serve as Red Guards, the ideological shock troops of the Chairman's tumultuous Cultural Revolution. Though students played an often brutal role in the ten-year purge of the country's intellectual elite, their participation in the Cultural Revolution, like the epoch itself, seems to have been a historical aberration. More typically, China's young demonstrators have called for a quickened pace of reform. On April 5, 1976, students swelled the ranks of the 100,000 demonstrators who massed in Peking's Tiananmen Square to protest the removal by Maoist radicals of thousands...
...doll, it is found in almost every epoch and culture, reaching back to the little votive objects of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, as well as the creche miniatures of Europe in the Middle Ages. Even the cheapest five- and-dime figurine is kin to the priceless Japanese ceremonial dolls that museums covet and to the feminine miniatures some African peoples still present to adolescent girls when they reach sexual maturity...