Word: epochs
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...rhinoceros is one of earth's oldest creatures, dating from the Eocene epoch, when horses were the size of dogs, some 55 million years ago. There are five surviving rhino species -- black, white, Sumatran, Indian and Javan -- all of them endangered because of poachers who kill them for their horns. Africa's black, or hooked-lipped, rhino (Diceros bicornis) is the latest to land on the endangered list. In 1970 there were 65,000 of the beasts roaming the rough bush country of east, central and southern Africa. Today there are fewer than 4,000, half of them in Zimbabwe...
...Miami Herald's stories about Gary Hart and Miami Model Donna Rice provoked intense debate about how far the press should go in reporting about the private lives of public officials. Last week brought the first clear sign that a new epoch is indeed aborning: the Cleveland Plain Dealer drew on unnamed sources to report that two-term Ohio Governor Richard F. Celeste, 49, has been "romantically linked" to three women other than his wife of 25 years, Dagmar. In the ensuing tempest, the Plain Dealer argued that the expose was justified because Democrat Celeste, although not a presidential candidate...
...stage in the blood of my epoch...
Toscanini's viscerally exciting performances, wrought with supreme tension and instrumental clarity, though sometimes sacrificing musical depth, also account for his popularity, according to Horowitz. Here Horowitz invokes the theories of Theodor Adorno, a Marxist of the Frankfurt school. Adorno, Horowitz writes, understood culture of the "bourgeois epoch"--"affirmative" and "official"--as neglecting the contradictions inherent in great art. Although proponents claimed classical would lead to universal enlightenment, "aspects of the concert hall experience were standardized, atomized, `fetishized,'" by alienated members of a "commodity society...
From the belle to the nuclear epoch, the world recalled in both these books seems remote from history. Mellons, Fricks, Altmans and Rockefellers vie for Giorgiones, Titians, Bellinis and Botticellis, while offstage monarchies disintegrate, nation-states aggressively come of age, and men are pulped in the trenches. There is a certain amount of glee in reading about rich innocents abroad who retained Berenson as an art consultant without knowing the extent of his ties to Duveen and other dealers. If the "squillionaires," as Berenson called them, did not always get what they paid for, they at least got royal treatment...