Word: epochs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carpers pointed out that the Bolshoi style had become frozen at a pre-revolutionary epoch. Sadler's Wells School...
...things of the first meeting with "my good friend Alf." But like Boswell's initial confrontation with Johnson, it was not a success. "There was no click," Perles confesses sadly. Yet, "was I already under the spell of that personality which was later to manifest itself in his epoch-making books?" Two years later the question was answered. He was-even though Miller "talked through his hat, like an inspired lunatic...
...formal session into overtime, and delayed by five hours the signing of the year's most uncommunicative communiqué ("a useful exchange of opinions"). No sooner had Khrushchev asserted a pious hope that for the Algerian problem France would "find an appropriate solution in the spirit of our epoch" than he lurched up to the Egyptian ambassador at the huge Kremlin reception that followed, and lifted his glass in a toast "to the Arabs and all people struggling for national independence...
...writers grew fat on the war (Young Guard sold 3,000,000 copies), but when it was all over, Stalin cut them down to size in a new purge. Described as "filthy" and "obscene" in journals controlled by Author Fadeyev's union were two survivors of the revolutionary epoch: Satirist Mikhail (The Adventures of an Ape) Zoshchenko and Poetess Anna (The White Flock) Akhmatova. Even Fadeyev, criticized in Pravda, had to eat a little crow. Told to rewrite Young Guard, he said: "I quite agree...
Toasting Nehru as "the outstanding statesman of our epoch," Mikoyan said: "Certain aggressive circles have as their slogan, 'Let us arm,' but we say, 'Let us trade.' The steel mill we are building for you is an example of peaceful competition with the Western countries. Let our Indian friends be the judges...