He finds that the pattern of peaks and valleys of solar eruption are almost exactly identical to the peaks of war, revolution, and other manifestations of "mass excitability," and the valleys of peace, creativity, and "minimal mass excitability".
A historically minded viewer might wonder about a young artist doing such seemingly insular, self-reflexive things during the peak years of war in Southeast Asia and sociopolitical turmoil at home.
The station opened on 1 June 1901 and closed during the First World War on 1 January 1917 because it was a minor line and difficult to keep running at the peak of the war.
"In reality, however, by 1960 there were as many women working as there had been at the peak of World War II, and the vast majority of them were married," Collins writes.
Workers flocked to Coventry during the industrial peak of World War II to work in the remaining manufacturing plants (now all closed); some bought lots on the lake for as little as $5.
When I took office, we had just over 32,000 Americans serving in Afghanistan, compared to 160,000 in Iraq at the peak of the war.
The overreaction and harsh policy, obviously, brought what most of us now know as the peak of the war on drugs.
The original radio broadcast by Orson Wells occurred at the height of Nazi Germany's rise in power, and the first film adaptation came at the peak of Cold War anxiety.
Almost all agreed that the short-term consultancies that predominated during the peak of the war years were at best limited in their impact and almost impossible to assess.
Under Mr. Obama, we are now spending more money on the military, after adjusting for inflation, than in the peak of the cold war, Vietnam War or Korean War.
