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...missionary work was declared officially completed by 1863, but many of the missionary families stayed on, opened the second great epoch of Hawaii's history, founded families of growing influence. Trade prospered as huge sugar fields spread across the flatlands and mountainsides; captains of trade were the so-called "Big Five"-massive trading, shipping and factoring companies. The economy boomed, while more and more the prosperous agriculturists imported fresh shiploads of Japanese and Chinese labor. The influx, guided by the paternalistic Big Five, began subtly to change the island character as intermarriages produced new breeds of natives, new workers...
...compromise: a dinner jacket was so informal it was a "masterpiece of vulgarity and ugliness." The live-modern age could not be forgiven because it had "killed dilettantism." Tastefully, Le Figaro said of his death: "Andre de Fouquières leaves Parisian life at the dawn of the epoch of severity. Animator of so many fetes and rejoicings of other times, he disappears as if by discretion...
...speaker then expounded on the "dual character of the Gospel" and on the "new reality" of Christ's revelation. He explained that the Revelation is the announcement of something come, yet also coming. It is the coming of a new epoch--"the presence of the living God among...
...mercy.'), which I pronounced at the moment in which with trepidation I accepted election as Supreme Pontiff, I now repeat at a time in which knowledge of the deficiencies, of the failures, of the sins committed during so long a pontificate and in so grave an epoch has made more clear to my mind my insufficiency and unworthiness . . . I pray those whose affair it is not to bother to erect any monuments to my memory: sufficient it is that my poor mortal remains should be laid simply in a sacred place...
...Baker: "I have written this play with thirty-odd named characters because it required it, not because I didn't know how to save paint. Some day I'm going to write a play with fifty, eighty, a hundred people--a whole town, a whole race, a whole epoch--for my soul's ease and comfort...