WHEN Desiderius Erasmus was born around 1466, the Christian West was on the brink of a dreadful era of religious conflict, pitting Catholics against various shades of Protestant Reformers.
In Act IV we have the dreadful Soviet-era happy ending, with the Prince and Rothbart, in the guise of an owl, ineffectually jeté-ing at each other in a lame ballet version of a duel, before the hero tears off one of the sorcerer's wings, reduces him to a heap, and restores Odette to human form.
Dalton Trumbo was one of the heroes of the dreadful McCarthy era.
As the show's press notes point out, many popular Victorian novels started out as serialized magazine stories, and it's not a stretch to say that those tales and the long-running "penny dreadful" publications of the era were akin to the hit TV shows of their time.
Instead, his formative years saw the most dreadful blunders of the Maoist era: the calamitous Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution and the mad schemes of the Gang of Four.
Attempts to ask Moyes specifically about Ashley Young, whose poor performance against City compounded a dreadful start to the new era at Old Trafford for the 28-year-old were cut short by his press secretary, though the manager said it would take some players time to adapt to new methods and a new regime.
My work has taken me to Auschwitz and Hiroshima, and I have come to see these two dreadful events as largely defining our era.
Yet part of us secretly yearns for some Life on Mars era that in reality was pretty dreadful.
The Bush era in particular spawned some truly dreadful "political" albums from acts who were either systematic system-haters or those who'd recently been inspired to be so.
What the editorial fails to acknowledge is that that era of for-hire transportation in New York City was defined by dreadful service, particularly for people of color and those seeking a ride to — gasp! — the outer boroughs.
It was dreadful when I was given liver or steak and kidney pie because, in that era, you had to finish whatever was on your plate.
