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...when big-time swingers in their spats and waistcoats used to go to a Broadway show, look over the girls and select the ones they would have, like lobsters from a tank. William Randolph Hearst acquired Marion Davies that way. But that was the Ziegfeld era in the Pleistocene epoch. Modern Broadway is different. Chorus lines, even in musicals, are depleted, and those old self-made audience libertines have turned into relatively timid expense-account types who go, in a big verbal way, for the unattainable elf of the smash light comedy -the bright and blue-jeaned breed of girl...
Scientists have learned much about the great glaciers of the Pleistocene epoch-the slow ice masses that spread several times across much of the globe, killing off thousands of animal species and stimulating the evolution...
...thoughts are in some way directly relevant, is actively engaged in trying to understand a self-contained unit, himself. In the latter case, a historian faces great masses of evidence, much of which is only indirectly relevant, in an effort to understand an historical individual or, worse yet, an epoch, which has no desire to tell him anything about why things happened...
...other epoch-making chapter in the schema is a strong denunciation of anti-Semitism that has already been greeted warmly by Jewish leaders all over the world. Prepared by the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, the chapter describes the deep spirtual bond between the church and the chosen people, makes clear that guilt for the death of Jesus Christ rests upon all mankind. Preachers and catechists are warned that accounts of the Crucifixion must not give rise to hatred or persecution of the Jews...
...beginning of a new political epoch is like the breaking of a dam," Schlesinger wrote. "The chaos of the breakthrough offends those who like everything neatly ordered and controlled; but it is likely to be a creative confusion, bringing a ferment of ideas and innovations into the national life. Thus the 60's will probably be spirited, articulate, inventive, incoherent, turbulent, with energy shooting off wildly in all directions...