Word: epochs
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...MOMA was muffled in its own success. All its departments had well-funded rivals in museums across the country. By 1980 modern art was an industry, involving hundreds of thousands of people. In the face of such expansion, MOMA became more preoccupied with being the guardian of a closing epoch. At the same time, the mass audience for modern art that it had helped create was causing problems that amounted, at times, to chaos...
...quadruple the gross national product, double the nation's output of energy, and raise per capita annual income from the present $300 to $800 by the year 2000. "Deng sees the Mao era as an interregnum between dynasties," notes a Western diplomat in Peking. "He sees his own epoch as the real beginning of the People's Republic...
...decency, optimism, a gift for self-education, a sturdy, common-sense affection for the U.S. and for mankind, and a talent for communication that approached the artistic. Better than any President since John Kennedy, Ronald Reagan had the surface qualities and the skills to do the job. In the epoch of television, he, like Kennedy, was made for the camera. In a demagogue, this would have been a dangerous thing. But Reagan was no demagogue. He was, it is true, a man of strong beliefs, but they were traditionally American and, oddly enough, essentially liberal beliefs. The people were asking...
WHILE THE FILM BIDS farewell to a fading epoch, it also offers a glimpse of what lies ahead. The snooping newsreel journalist heralds the advent of the mass media, a trademark of the age. In one of the movie's most intriguing scenes, upon request, passengers perform arias for a troop of sweaty, soot-besodden stokers in the ship's bow, auguring the workingman's increasing visibility. And, of course, there...
...oversize book can lie indolently on a piano, ready to recall the hits of four decades. Because shows are arranged in chronological order, the reader can watch Porter's growth from restless experimenter to self-assured master. Early on, the songwriter attempted to overturn the bromides of his epoch. When saccharine "Mammy" tunes permeated Broadway, he celebrated a black man who journeyed back to Tennessee only to miss "the great big tall skyscrapers/ And the elevated's roar,/ And he longed for morning papers/ That come out the night before...