Word: epochs
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Much as Grand Central was early in the century, Lever House was at mid-century the proud proclamation of a new era. The spirit of this epoch was, in a way, as bold and arrogant as that of the railroad magnates. It was the period of great national and, ultimately, international corporations...
...China, 1982 will be remembered as the year of the dog and in the U.S. as the epoch of the cat. Ronald Searle's Big Fat Cat Book (Little, Brown; $12.95) may seem a late entry. In fact, the English satirist has been cartooning cats for decades, mocking their uncivilized sophistication, their hypocrisy and cunning. While some of his furry vamps are overarch (Lady Catterley, Catahari), the vast majority of his scenes and creatures are instances of energy and wit. After examining the ferocious splashes of color in "Rat Race" or the haunting perspectives of "Displaced Persons," cat owners...
...cave painting." To Mailer, the spray-can artists are brilliantly writing "I am." It never seems to have occurred to him that what is also being inscribed is "You aren't." Urban scrawl does not merely decorate, it also defaces: maps, buildings, trees, monuments. In this vandalized epoch, graffiti can be avoided only by the wealthy, and celebrated only by those who bombinate about the "rapt intent seething of its foliage ... the herald of some oncoming apocalypse less and less far away...
...long time; witness the stern biblical warnings such as the one in Matthew 12: 36: "Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment." Yet the risks of biased words to the unwary must be greater today, in an epoch of propagandizing amplified by mass communications. "Never," Aldous Huxley said, "have misused words-those hideously efficient tools of all the tyrants, warmongers, persecutors and heresy hunters-been so widely and disastrously influential." In the two decades since that warning, the practice of bamboozlement has, if anything, increased. The appropriate response...
...Falklands, the British have wistfully and almost reflexively sought their sacred epoch, their more vigorous, regenerating myths. Their ships are afloat not only on the South Atlantic but on the mysterious fluid of time...