Word: epochs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that far from the time when grunts and gesticulations were the main ways of getting messages across. Both individuals and groups still send vital messages by gesture, by pantomime, by dramatics-by a dizzy diversity of what scholars call nonverbal communication. The reality is easy to overlook in an epoch that is bloated with pride in its dazzling technical marvels of communication. Yet, in spite of human garrulousness, perhaps as little as 20% of the communication among people is verbal, according to experts; most, by far, even when talk is going on, consists of nonverbal signals...
...Their mission, and their success, lies in anesthetizing the audience until it has only enough energy to do one thing: turn the page. Sutherland notes that the top ten novels of the '70s sold twice as many copies as the top ten of the 1960s. In this thirsty epoch, more readers than ever seem to need their psychic spirits. -By J.D. Reed
...Cosmos series; he for the third time, she for the first; in Los Angeles. Sagan, who last March divorced his second wife Linda after twelve years of marriage, wrote in the dedication of the book version of Cosmos: "It is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie...
...mocks his belief in suicide as consolation, recalls his solemn and frantic pursuit of women, and reprints some of his early and awkward literary efforts. In the process, with an artlessness that conceals art, he manages to re-create not only his early self but the epoch that formed...
...Emerson there was "properly no history, only biography." Three new books illustrate his view. Well told, the epic of a life may also be the life of an epoch...