That may be the biggest hurdle of all, given the unfamiliar nature of the slowly building problem — the antithesis
of epochal events like Pearl Harbor, Sputnik and 9/11 that triggered sweeping enterprises.
So if the new theory is right, and the oceans were separated much earlier — then what triggered
all of those epochal events?
(Grade: A --RRB-: This touching, profound and gently humorous German comedy / drama — about a teenage boy, circa 1989, who goes to great lengths to keep his invalid mother from learning communism has collapsed in East Germany — encapsulates the emotion and drama
of that epochal event in such a satisfying way it seems destined to become a classic.
Not exact matches
The question is then is this kind
of a one time
epochal event that's beyond the level
of even those big things.
Interestingly, he used the terms «
epochal occasion,» «
event» and «droplets
of existence,» but never «actual entity» or «eternal object,» suggesting that he still may have been working largely from Religion in the Making.
However, Science and the Modern World also introduces the
epochal theory
of time, which stands as a great modification
of Whitehead's
event ontology.
The classic example is the insertion
of the «
Epochal Theory
of Time» in Science and the Modern World, forcing the eventual transformation
of what, in that book, had initially been a Spinozistic approach to creativity as the one, undifferentiated underlying activity (with «
events»
of varied temporal duration as the «modes»
of this underlying process) toward the Leibnizian monadology
of actual entities (each a kind
of time - quantum) that finally appeared subsequently in Process and Reality.
Yet an arguably more
epochal event occurred the previous year, when the crew
of Apollo 8 — astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders — embarked on the first voyage to lunar orbit.
It's a film our critic describes as «emotionally devastating,» and it's hard to see how any documentary that takes such an unflinching and deeply - felt look at the aftermath
of such an
epochal tragedy as the school shootings in Newtown Connecticut could not be — especially as the film focuses not on the killer or on the politics
of the
event, but simply on the children, in particular on three
of the victims, and their families trying to cope in the wake
of an incomprehensible loss.
The 2005 Performa was anchored by Marina Abramovic's seven - day re-creation at the Guggenheim Museum
of great performance pieces, a grueling, mad and
epochal event.
Barroca draws from a wide - range
of historical and documentary material — photographs, videos, and sound recordings — produced at the time
of major
epochal events.
Featuring images from the 1973 fashion show «The Battle
of Versailles,» the exhibition showcases Cunningham's unique perspective on this
epochal event in fashion history.
As hard as it might be to suss out the impact
of extreme weather in 2017, yet harder is sussing out the impact
of the changing climate, now and in the future — due to the difficulty
of tying individual weather
events to
epochal changes like global warming, the inability
of headline economic figures to capture the messy fullness
of human life, and the inadequacy
of the available data to measure changes in the natural and the economic world.