Word: epochally
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...sometime reviewer, sometime adviser, sometime historian, but always consummate storyteller, has come out with a massive remembrance of Bobby: Robert Kennedy and His Times. And the times, for Schlesinger, rise and fall very much in accordance with the fortunes of RFK, a man "who embodies the consciousness of an epoch, who perceives things in fresh lights and new connections, who exhibits unsuspected possibilities of purpose and action to his contemporaries." It will be hard to criticize such...
...biography (1965), but he also served on the campaign staff of Adlai Stevenson in the '50s and as special adviser to President Kennedy in the '60s. Can he hope to write true and objective histories or biographies on any public figures from that era? After all, the epoch he says Bobby embodied was one Bobby represented to him all along...
...postwar epoch was not clear and the artist continued to compose. His underground newspaper was called Combat. That might have served as the subtitle for all of Camus's work. He tried the Communist Party and found it guilty of hypocrisy. He refused to endorse extremist positions on either side of the Algerian struggle for independence. "I must condemn a terrorism which strikes blindly in the streets ..." he declared, "and which one day might strike my mother or my family. I believe in justice but I will defend my mother before justice." The famous phrase caused Camus...
...thousand creative volumes. It produced not a single novel, story, play or opera published in China. Indeed, were it not for Chen Jo-hsi's collection of poignant stories set in the China of the '60s and early '70s, it is very likely that the entire epoch, during which the lives of hundreds of millions of people were profoundly shaken, would never have found its way into contemporary literature...
...implication was clear: the speaker resided on top of the evolutionary scale; what better way to spend a life than laughing at the lower orders? Such was Mencken's amusement during the '20s and early '30s. It was a resentful, mocking epoch; Americans, disillusioned by World War I, were anxious to smash icons and uncover clay feet. In newspapers, magazines -the Smart Set and the American Mercury-and some 40 books, Mencken merrily blasted Christianity in general and the Bible Belt in particular. He satirized professors, savaged politicians and labeled the majority of Americans-i.e., anyone...