Mr. DeFrancis argued that the Communist revolution had created an epochal opportunity to reinvent the Chinese language and make it much more accessible.
"When I would write a song like 'Who'll Stop the Rain,' I made it general and epochal," Fogerty has said.
But industrial Britain and industrial politics were in epochal transition, and Reid, like Scargill, was from deep roots, which made it hard and unpleasant to keep up with the change.
These two scripts, called hiragana and katakana, respectively, made it possible to write the national language with complete freedom, and their invention was an epochal event in the history of the expression of ideas in Japan.
It was designed by an architect named Yasuo Matsui, who generally gets the credit for the Bauhaus-like horizontal window-wall design (those windows made it one of the very few American structures to be included in the Museum of Modern Art's epochal "International Style" exhibition, in 1932), but is otherwise unknown.
When Comfort's epochal manual was published, thirty years ago, it made its author, who died in 2000, famous as a kind of Dr. Spock for grown-ups, an avatar of the new dawn of sexual liberation.
A young Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and others join saxophone genius Parker on these essential mid-40s recordings; timeless themes such as Ornithology and Yardbird Suite, inspired improvising and radical vision make these epochal episodes in modern music.
It was released in January 1958, a month after the epochal, swept-wing jet airliner made its maiden flight.
Using hypnotism, Josef Breuer and Sigmund Freud together made the epochal observations on the relationship to later mental illness of emotionally charged, damaging experiences in childhood.
Though Lanzmann recounts, in passionate detail, the difficulties he faced in making that epochal film — indeed, they form the book's climactic episode — he also explains what is, in effect, the sixty-year gap in his resumé.
