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• Why won't they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can't they use birth control on… — John Dos Passos
• The short interregnum of civil society built on the ruins of the Bastille came to its end with the establishment of the… — Israel Shamir
• Postmodernism represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is… — Lyman Abbott
• The old structure of the West as a synthesis of classical culture, Christianity, and the impulses of peoples entering history for the… — Armin Mohler
• Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have… — Gilbert Adair
• The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms. — Antonio Gramsci
• The U.S. might enjoy overwhelming military advantage, but its relative economic power, which in the long run is almost invariably decisive, is… — Martin Jacques
• The Olympics is an imperfect interregnum, the parade of nations a fantasy about a peace never won. It offers little relief from… — Jill Lepore

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