Word: epochs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subject of Professor Morize's talk will be "An Epoch in French Literature, 1918 to 1930--From Unrest to Reconstruction." Professor von der Leyen will give an address on "Old and Rare German Manuscripts, from the eighth to the 13th Century...
...most important epoch in Eugene O'Neill's life is not his dismissal from Princeton in 1907 for hijinks, not the period in which he bummed about on ships, not even his long association with the Provincetown Players. It begins on Christmas Eve, 1912, when drink and irregular habits sent him into the Gaylord Farm (Wallingford, Conn.) sanitarium, a tuberculous patient. His biographers note that he went in a boy and came out a man. At least, that was where he started writing seriously. Up to that time his sorely-tried father, Actor James O'Neill, thought...
...life structures on the whole becoming more complex throughout the course of organic evolution. From the viewpoint of physics, life and mind are thus singular and exceptional phenomena, not in line with the movement of the universe as a whole. . . . Perhaps we may even say that at the Present epoch there is no other globe where life is at the level manifested on earth. ... I suggest that at the present cosmic epoch we are the spectators of what is perhaps the grandest event in the. immeasurable history of our universe...
WRITTEN in the leisurely tempo of the epoch which is its setting, "The Singing Swan" brings another character of Doctor Johnson's time to modern literature. Anna Seward, poetess, romanticist, and the woman who dared to beard the dean of English lexicographers to his face, finds kind if at times somewhat detailed treatment at the hands of her biographer, Margaret Ashmun...
...Vale and Other Poems" is not an epoch-making volume, but then, in this day of poets and poetasters whose name is legion, it is a pleasant one to read. The poems it contains, though quiet, are profound, and admirers of the author will put it down still assured of the poet's gift...