"In times of epochal change, people sense a greater need to find points of reference," he said while a bus lurched along a Syrian highway to the town of Malula and the Convent of Sts.
In the 1950s and early 60s the inquiry begun by Cézanne was reformulated by three Americans – Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Cy Twombly – and I believe these are the artists of that epochal time with whom we should compare Hodgkin.
Every time some apparently epochal event happens, from 9/11 to the continued rise of non-liberal-democracy powers such as China and Russia, he is called up and asked to write an article explaining why he is still right and history has still ended.
By Hendrik Hertzberg The New Yorker, September 23 , 1996P. 7 Signed comment about the upcoming Oct. 20th elections in Nicaragua... On O 20, the people of Nicaragua will go to the polls for the first time since the epochal defeat of the Sandanista Front, in February of 1990.
The activities of Homo sapiens -- that's right, us -- are reducing the volume and kinds of other life-forms on the planet at a rate and magnitude that earn our moment in time its own epochal designation.
Just now, musing about other 1939 flicks, I unearthed an unexpectedly rich strain of ophthalmic schlag that perhaps illustrates the rewards of my epochal time-wasting.
Deficits that used to only appear during epochal times like World War II are now the norm.
He would be remembered, along with his brilliant contemporary Romare Bearden, as a gifted painter of African-American experience even if he had not been the right young man in the right place at the right moment to channel, for all time, the lightning of an epochal circumstance.
Whether you're seeing it from the air or at ground level, this is what your senses struggle with in the open country, such flat planes worked over with hieroglyphics born of fire, erosion, meteor showers, drought and epochal passages of time.
On the bookshelf in my kitchen I have my grandmothers copy of Claibornes epochal New York Times Cook Book (1961), protectively covered in the remains of an ancient brown paper grocery bag and annotated in black felt tip pen.
