Mr. Crocker, a wiry, intense man who for years was a dedicated distance runner, is retiring at the end of July after a career that began as the last American troops were leaving Vietnam and is ending as the curtain closes on an era of American state-building that has mostly fallen short of the results policy makers had hoped for.
The great Howard Zinn's death has the ominous feeling of bringing too close the end of an era when some western intellectuals had the magnetism of rock stars, and when their ethical and principled stand against the dominant powers of the moment moved millions to see things differently, and to act.
His death seemed to put an exclamation mark on the closing of an era.
And so, many see in the closing of an era of free and easy spending on luxury goods — when luxury became associated with flash and ostentation around the world — the potential for a restoration of the classic French virtues of restraint and modesty.
The closing is the end of an era for contemporary art in London.
Its closing marks the end of an era for millions of women whose reading graduated, as they moved into adulthood, from Seventeen to Mademoiselle to Vogue.
Whatever the miscalculation — Mr. Vesce said lawyers would be advising him on potential liabilities — the Paramount's closing signifies the end of an era that produced more than $1 million in renovations at the theater, which is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Paul Zolenge, who owned the Stage Deli with Steve Auerbach, said the closing was "devastating, the end of an era, something I never thought would happen".
We all smiled as things drew to a close; it truly was the end of an era.
So seeing this close is — it's an end of an era". Some of the 72 buildings at the site will be turned over Sept. 15 to the District of Columbia for its reuse commission to consider, and others will go to the State Department, Coots said.
