Word: epochally
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...High Epoch. Louis XIII furniture was modern in its day; it marked the point when hand-carved Renaissance woodwork gave way to all the sensuous, symmetrical turnings that a cabinet-maker's lathe could serve up. Finials, banderoles, and swags of fruit and flowers appeared, to give essentially stiff, straight-backed woodwork an animate touch. Table and chair legs ceased to butt into the floor, instead rested on gentler bun feet, but H-form stretchers low to the floor held the frames rigidly intact. Furniture of walnut and ebony supplanted oak because these woods take on a finer finish...
...Louis XIII was an age yearning for gentility. Interiors with paneled walls, beetle-browed fireplace mantels and massively beamed ceilings still lacked the airiness of the Sun King's era. But historians call the earlier Louis' reign the "High Epoch," a period when Frenchmen culled ideas from the cultures of other European countries and refined them with their own innate good taste. Navigation had proved the world rounder and more compact than even Columbus thought. Rembrandt was mastering the play of light and shade, or chiaroscuro, as the baluster lathework of Louis XIII furniture tried to imitate. Louis...
...This Destruction of the Tea," wrote John Adams, "is so bold, so daring, so firm, intrepid, and inflexible, and it must have so important Consequences and so lasting, that I cannot but consider it as an Epoch in History. . ." In London William Pitt was one of the few men who shared the clarity of Adams' vision; in opposing the Boston Port Bill, one of the Coercive Acts, he prophesied that "if that mad and cruel measure should be pushed. . . England has seen her best days." Most Englishmen disagreed: "They will be Lyons whilst we are Lambs, but if we take...
...must be the sign of a dawning epoch when Cambridge choruses abandon the booming solemnity of Latin and devote half a concert to music by twentieth century Americans, with daring words in the vernacular. Now it is always a riot when English is substituted for Latin in Cambridge, and Friday's Glee Club-Choral Society concert proved to be no exception. The concert put the glee back in the Glee Club and brought jolly laughter from the listeners...
...doves." Underneath, "serpents they were." James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking novels may read like adventure stories, but they are really primal myths about "the collapse of the white psyche divided between innocence and lust." Melville also "knew his race was doomed, his white soul, doomed. His great white epoch, doomed." As Edmund Wilson once ob served, Lawrence's essays will acquaint readers with an American literature few Americans have ever seen...