Word: epochs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...saber-toothed tiger, the dire wolf, the mammoth, the giant beaver, and more than 100 other species of large mammals that once inhabited North America? All that paleontologists know for sure is that about 10,000 years ago, as glaciers retreated northward into Canada during the Late Pleistocene epoch, these animals suddenly became extinct. Their demise, many scientists believe, was caused either by sudden climatic change -which upset their breeding season and produced a lethal sterility-or simply by winter weather, which ironically may have become increasingly severe as the glaciers waned...
...this sort may be happening in the nation at this time. Nothing is more clear than that a certain kind of youthfulness has now passed us. Strangely, it has done so in a time dimension surprisingly human, if not indeed mortal. What has been called, and properly, the American epoch began -- what? -- say thirty years ago when it developed that Europe had lost control over events, and would descend into destruction, impotence and ruin. Thereafter, America would dominate, and for a time command events. And this was so whether we would have it such or not. The fact of American...
Black Man's Eyes. Styron's narrative power, lucidity and understanding of the epoch of slavery achieve a new peak in the literature of the South. The customary view, whether of willow-shaded plantation avenues or red clay roads leading to sharecroppers' cabins, has been white. Styron surveys the same landscape, but attempts to see it through the eyes of a black...
...Cold-Blooded. Assuming that the variation had been similar in prehistoric animals, Ho turned to late Pleistocene epoch (10,000 to 200,000 years ago) fossil remains containing well-preserved collagen. Chemically analyzing the collagen in fossil specimens recovered from Los Angeles' famed La Brea tar pits, he applied his formula and calculated the temperatures of such extinct species as the browsing ground sloth, the dire wolf, the short-faced bear and the saber-toothed...
...more unusual was a unique flagon of Canary wine, vintage 1740. Spared any sign of ullage (loss from leakage or evaporation) in the 227 years since the dry white wine, similar to a Madeira, was bottled on the island of Tenerife, it is almost the sole survivor of its epoch. But is it any good? Its new owner, Professional Gourmet Maurice C. Dreicer of New York, who paid $518 for his bottle of Canary-highest price ever for a single bottle of wine-is in no mood to put it to the test himself. He plans, instead, to carry...