Word: epochs
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Arthur Kopit’s “Y2K” was written in 1999, when the fears that a massive technological glitch would bring about worldwide destruction were at their height. Though the titular epoch has passed, the story about a young “power couple” whose identities are stolen by a somewhat maddened young computer hacker remains truthful, frightening and, ultimately, thrilling...
Cobb's patented hands-apart grip made him a nonpareil singles and doubles hitter, but furnished him with little power. Or so it seemed. In the Babe Ruth epoch, when Cobb was criticized for failing to hit the long ball, he went on record: "I'm going for home runs for the first time in my career." That day he went six for six: two singles, a double and three home runs. The following game he hit two more homers. The Peach had made his point; he hit just seven more home runs that season, and only...
Like the blues, slapstick comedy and the .400 hitter, the murder mystery enjoyed its golden age in the 1920s. That was the epoch of Agatha Christie and Ronald Knox, of G.K. Chesterton and S.S. Van Dine. The mystery craze gripped every age, sex and temperament; it spread so wide that it was parodized by P.G. Wodehouse. Back then it seemed possible to believe, as Playwright Anthony Shaffer later joshed in Sleuth, that mysteries were "the normal recreation of noble minds...
Gorbachev's introduction typifies the man. It is both direct ("We have major achievements as well as quite a few unresolved problems") and rather bombastic ("Sometimes even a single day may be equivalent to a whole epoch in terms of the scope of decisions that have to be made"). The Soviet leader attempts to woo Americans with assurances of his reasonableness: "We are committed firmly to returning Soviet-American relations back onto a normal track, back to the road of mutual understanding and cooperation...
Bach was a father of the Baroque, the waning age of myth and mysticism; Frederick was a son of the Enlightenment, the dawning epoch of empiricism and reason. Their musical duel took place at "the tipping point between ancient and modern culture," writes Gaines, the moment at which "the intuitions, attitudes, and ideas of a thousand years were being exchanged for principles and habits of thought that are still evolving and in question three centuries later...