Word: epochs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prehistoric Pompeii. Professor Blanc's discovery near Rome not only predates Homer but may even date back to Java man, who roamed the Southeast Asiatic area in the early part of the glacial epoch. A professor of human paleontology...
Speaking before the ceremony which was held in Andover Hall, Dr. George H. Williams, professor of Church History, called Wolfson's work "a landmark in almost 2000 years of Judaeo-Christian relations. For the first time,t he philosophy of the Fathers has been analyzed and ordered as an epoch in the history of religions and philosophical thought...
...world cautiously took a deep breath. Unreasonable it might be, but there was hope in the air that the cold war might be transformed into a "cool truce." At least, there might be what Adenauer called last week "the beginning of an epoch of negotiations...
Today, people listen more attentively when Lewis hammers away at his old conviction that both civilization and art depend on a far-seeing law and order. Mysticism, "unconscious'" expression, addled emotionalism are his .pet hates. He stands up for personal "consciousness" in an epoch in which civilization has half-drowned itself in mass emotion and the seas of the Freudian unconscious. As long ago as 1914 Wyndham Lewis was pouring curses upon Mother Nature and shaggy beards, arguing that master gardeners and stern hairdressers are the truest symbols of civilization...
This artfully written French historical novel plunges its readers into the violence of an epoch when knighthood was in flower but life was no bed of roses. Three generations of the House of Linnierès play out their lives against a background of medieval manners and 13th; century skulduggery...