Word: epochally
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...future there is at least one ideal film he has in mind. It would be called The Belle Epoch and concern "a very wealthy family at the turn of the century in France, a large family up to the first World War. It's the beginning of the mechanical age, and it's about the society at that time and its amazement at its own failure. The family ends the way animals become extinct: They become so perfected to their own environment that when their environment disappears, they have...
...core, Mercury seems to rotate much too slowly to produce such a dynamo effect. But scientists offer alternative explanations. Mercury's magnetic field may be created externally by bombardment of charged particles from the sun hitting the atmosphere-or it may be left over from an epoch when the spin was faster. The presence of an atmosphere is equally difficult to explain because the planet's gravity is too weak to prevent a gaseous envelope from escaping into space. But, says Project Scientist James A. Dunne, some gases could be continually trapped from the stream of solar particles...
They merely reflect the class nature of the slave-owning aristocracy of his own epoch...
...broadcasting day, from Tonto's "Kemo Sabe" to the caricature of black servants on almost every soap opera. Still, radio drama, like its heroes, tended to be greater than any of its faults. If it was naive, it was no more than the reflection of a simpler epoch. If it was repetitious, it allowed each listener to color the backgrounds and populate the casts with the agility of a dreamer. (As any oldtime listener can testify, the five senses are not necessarily great collaborators. Film comedy, after all, never achieved the same explosive laughter once sound came in. Conversely...
...observers go so far as to characterize American children as totally new beings, but they are living in an epoch when even the basic assumptions can no longer be taken for granted. It is a time when sexual roles are no longer sharply delineated. It is a time of assaulted institutions, among others the family, which has long since become in Margaret Mead's words, "totally isolated, desperately autonomous." When a family exists at all, that...