The character of the ingénue in literature often functions as a transitional figure: at the end of the 19th century, for example, she embodied the instability of the moment as the Victorian era shifted into the modern one.
The fifth principle, recalibrating America's role for "competing in a global era," shifts this emphasis to the global stage.
Mr. Ballmer, 52, must lead the Internet-era shift in strategy and corporate culture without the man who, to many, is still the public face of Microsoft.
At the National Park Service, Bush has pledged to undo a Clinton-era shift that sent the agency's 100 research scientists to the U.S. Geological Survey.
As the eras shifted, the store never lost its punk base but also incorporated the fans of whatever strain of rock was of the moment, surviving as the block was remade.
A certain degree of skepticism is still healthy due to the obvious trouble in defining a geological era-shift while we are still living in it.
Meanwhile Rollo was back at the stones, proclaiming the official end of an era, a shift in our collective consciousness, and the dawning of the Age of Aquarius.
The Moon Hoax also provided an outlet for the era's shifting sense of truth.
But reading this book reminds us of how much the focus of our interests in the Nazi era has shifted since 1945.
"But then cool Britannia, the Tate Modern and the shifting of the Turner Prize into high gear all happened at the same time, when British culture became free from the Thatcherite era and shifted into another direction".
