Word: epochs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...birthday reminder may be a little depressing, but the biography is a multicolored high. With a series of old Sunday strips, black and white panels and prose reminiscences, Peanuts Creator Charles M. Schulz follows his charges from their days as Saturday Evening Post cartoons to the halcyon epoch of Snoopy as the Red Baron, Lucy as a 5? psychiatrist, and Charlie Brown as the boy who firmly decides to be wishy one day and washy the next. Schulz's humor remains poignant, whimsical and informed with religious insight-The Gospel According to Peanuts was more than a bestseller...
Juan Carlos assumed all of Franco's powers, except the positions of head of the Movimiento National and of generalissimo of "the Three Armies"-posts el Caudillo retains for life. The Prince, however, already wields sufficient authority to launch Spain's post-Franco epoch. His first official function, in fact, clearly symbolized that power had been transferred to him; he presided over Friday's Cabinet meeting, which was held around the dining-room table of his Zarzuela Palace rather than in the dining room of Franco's El Pardo...
...death of Franco will end an epoch for both Spain and Europe. Long the Continent's most reviled pariah, Franco was a haunting, living reminder that the West had failed to act decisively during the Spanish Civil War, when the forces of Communism, Fascism and democracy confronted each other in what turned out to be a dress rehearsal for World War II. In the postwar years, Franco confounded his numerous critics by taming a naturally rebellious nation that had spawned anarchy and by bringing Spanish society into the modern industrial age (see following story). Yet, like most dictators...
...very deeply can totally understand Dmitri Shostakovich's music," said Cellist-Conductor Mstislav Rostropovich as he paid tribute to his former teacher and friend. "He gave to the world not only a sense of great beauty, but also a feeling for the great difficulties and contradictions of the epoch in which he lived...
Bared Portions. Something other than nostalgia peddling is going on; these are good and compelling writers. But what, exactly, is their game? Why accept the strictures of Victorianism in an epoch of total license? One answer is social criticism posing as irony: actualities mutely placed against canting ideals. A second, equally valid explanation is that any writer who hopes to compose a novel of manners has to go where the manners are-or were...