Word: epochs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stay retired. He decided to open a store in London, because "London is the greatest and richest city in the world and contains six million discerning inhabitants." When Selfridge's threw open its doors in 1909, London newspapers hailed the $2,000,000 building as ushering in "an epoch in London life"; the Times was moved to reassure its readers that the store's huge and wonderful plate-glass windows did not make the structure unsafe. Throngs marveled at Selfridge's 130 departments, its vast restaurants, rest rooms, writing rooms and six acres of selling space. "Visitors...
...self-confessedly coprovorous purveyor of movables, who, unsatisfied by his revolting practices, feels the pathological urge to publicize his vices, it is a sad commentary on our epoch that a man who has had the benefit of some contact with the classic tongues is untouched by the great moral teachings therein contained...
...present Peron epoch, it is impossible to give anything resembling a truthful account of Argentine affairs without giving offense to Peron. If you try too hard, as TIME Correspondent Frank Shea did last week in Buenos Aires, you get thrown into jail (see THE HEMISPHERE...
...always been quite different. The sage is the battleground of new ideas, the arena where literary and philosophical notions are presented to the public who witness the struggle and cheer the winner. The playwright becomes the carrier of the flag, being in and being the amker of his epoch. Most plays deal with controversial issues. Spectators go to the theatre to become acquainted with the problems, to take part in the discussions...
Parisian critics agreed that Tal-Coat was indeed an artist "away from the current of his epoch." Instead of sophisticated posturings, said one, there was "an indication of meditation, of a naive drunkenness." But his feverish search for ever-increasing simplicity could also lead into a blind alley. Presumably, commented Opera, "Tal-Coat has reached the end of his evolution because unless he is prepared to exhibit blank canvases to his breathless public, what else...