Word: epochs
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...society to make its choice. True, rationing, cutbacks, allocations are unpleasant to contemplate. But so is the image of a new America Deserta burned dry by its own voracity. Whatever the decision is, it cannot be wholly judged at this time. It remains for posterity to record whether the epoch of the energy crisis was a time of catastrophic status quo or a period of grace...
...current generation is the first one far enough removed from the time of creation to appreciate the Victorian age as an historical epoch. For our parents, Victorianism was a recent experience; though not devoid of meaning, they were too close to judge it objectively. The passing of time has made it easier to discern the stronger and weaker elements of the style...
...Executive power, we are a minority in the Congress. The Judiciary system is autonomous and our Civil Code is 100 years old. If I don't criticize the judicial system while at home, I am hardly going to do that here. But obviously those laws represent another epoch and another reality. They were not laws made by the workers who are now in the government; they were made by the sectors of the upper-class that controlled the Executive, the economic power, and that are still a majority in the national Congress...
...SMOOTHLY, it finally did. For all the ladies' talk that followed, you'd think that King's victory was going down in history as a landmark of the Liberation, as epoch-making as the day of Ibsen's Nora's doorslam, or the day that tanks succeeded cavalry. But after all the fuss, the match wasn't much. It wasn't much...
Then, in 1912, comes the most disputed canvas of the prewar epoch. "The first study was almost naturalistic," Duchamp remembered. "At least it showed some hunks of flesh. Right after that, though, I started in to make a painting on the same subject that was a long way from being naturalistic." It was a way from which no traveler returned. Nude Descending a Staircase was at once the scandal and centerpiece of exhibitions from Paris to New York. The work was no mere rendering of cubist theory. It was mechanistic, sensual and impudent. It held nothing sacred−not even...