Word: epochally
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...puts on the roll call of the "pioneers" of modern art is the Italian-born New Yorker, Joseph Stella (1879-1946). His abstraction. The Bridge (opposite), is a portrait of steel and sinews, of mind and muscle, of man's power and industrial might. The painting evokes an epoch in the history of American art, a period of revolt against "pretty pictures," of the discovery of a new world for the painter to paint. Applying the new techniques then coming into fashion, Painter Stella chose for his subject that typically American scene, the manmade, industrialized landscape...
...ephemeral. Rigorous construction, precision of cut, quality of execution alone separate us from the travesty of fancy dress." But he is nonetheless serious about his ephemeral trade. "In a machine age," he says, "dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable. In an epoch as somber as ours, luxury must be defended inch by inch...
Head-on collisions between particles, say Jones and Ohkawa, will begin a new epoch in physics. The rules that govern such matters are complicated by relativity, but generally speaking, two particles that collide with energies of 15 billion electron volts each will have the smashing effect of a single particle with 540 billion electron volts. Such enormous energy is found only in rare cosmic rays, which can be studied undisturbed only at the inaccessible top of the atmosphere. If goodly numbers of these collisions can be caused in the laboratory, where they can be observed accurately, a new and horrendous...
...world entered 1956 with a full complement of great men: national leaders, statesmen, philosophers, artists and scientists, many of whom, pursuing their legitimate vocations, would be remembered among the great names of the epoch. But the man who put his stamp on this particular year?the Man of the Year?was not on the roster of the world's great when the year began. Nor could anyone have guessed his identity, even when the year had run four-fifths of its course. Yet by year's end, this man was seen to have shaken history's greatest despotism...
...carpers pointed out that the Bolshoi style had become frozen at a pre-revolutionary epoch. Sadler's Wells School...