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...place: prerevolutionary China. The situation: chaotic. Bandits and generals, distinguishable in some cases only by their uniforms, are battling for control of the country. Foreign opportunists skirmish for treasure. And China's peasants, as always, work, sweat and starve. Malcolm Bosse's novel re-creates the epoch and peoples it with an indelible cast, including a rising warlord named Chiang Kai-shek and a budding revolutionary called Mao Tse-tung...
Despite Gould's exertions, this June cannot compete with certain earlier hymeneal splendors. The '60s and the '70s were the great epoch of the improvisational, personalized wedding ceremony-preferably performed in a sun-shot meadow, the bride barefoot and vaguely pagan, Chloë going to Daphnis...
This disembodied voice is speaking in the present tense, now, late in the 20th century, a contemporary witness to old deeds. Hoban invents a spokesman for an entire epoch, one who has not only suffered the mutilation and death of his body but has consciously endured some of the awful burdens of history since those events: "I am a microscopic chip in that vast circuitry in which are recorded all of the variations and permutations thus far. Not all of my experience is available for recall by my Pilgermann identity, only that in which the energy of the input...
...sense, Part I forecloses an epoch. Ibsen encompasses the dying out of old legends and old gods, the anachronism of the early 19th century Byronic romantic hero and the ushering in of urban industrial society with its hard-nosed pragmatism...
...true, however, that International Style architecture is not as popular today as it was 30 years ago. But the historic significance of architectural styles is as indisputable as the historic events surrounding them. Architecture, as Mies put it, "is the translation of the spirit of an epoch into space...