Word: epochal
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Most children are not related to film directors, however, and to them movies on TV are an integral part of their epoch; they are growing up with a borrowed nostalgia for a time they never knew. The once-irretrievable past has become as salable as a personality poster, as audible as a Fred Astaire LP. The late show is ransacked for trivia questions and recherche cliches...
...Epoch. To Anthropologist Margaret Mead, who has studied and taught at Columbia for 48 years, the crisis marked "the end of an epoch" in the way universities are governed. She blamed the demonstration in part on student activists who took advantage of the university's traditional leniency toward on-campus pranks. But she also accused the administration of failing to recognize the right of students to share in campus authority, and of being unresponsive to community needs. Dr. Mead also reflected a campus consensus that the trustees were also at fault. Said she: "We can no longer have privately...
...find that he had sculpted at all. The same surprise was renewed last week at the Fogg in discovering the Degas monotypes. Both these media were exceedingly personal ones for Degas, and knowledge of them will deepen and broaden the understanding of anyone who is familiar with his epoch only through its paintings...
...bone as a weapon. Now he is man, the killer; the naked ape has arisen, and civilization is on its way. With a burst of animal spirits, the bone is flung into the air, dissolves into an elongated spacecraft, and aeons of evolution fall away. It is 2001, the epoch of A Space Odyssey...
There is no room here to give a sense of the story's wonderful place nor to indicate some of the marvelous flashes of originality. An entire epoch of a fascinating life has been dumped onto paper. It is blessing to find someone admit to love of good wood, to talk about concerts and buses after the dedicated artistry which burdens even the good material in the Advocate. Why, the price of admission would be well spent if it bought you nothing but an introduction to Mr. Dorcas' mind, whoever's mother's son he might...