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Human evolution was characterized by the gradual ascendance of vision and reduction of smell, evidenced in the anthropological record by the progressive diminution of the snout as the eyes moved to the middle of the face to subserve depth vision (Jones et al.
An article cheers the ascendance of "living wage" movements in local politics.
On the one hand, encouraged in part by the cultural ascendance of irony, and by recreational obeisance to the many-tiered nature of experience and truth, the noncitational or "literary" footnote has become increasingly prominent in recent years in journalism, criticism, and fiction.
After all, the '60s was the decade standing between the last hurrah of an industrial age (the '50s), and the ascendance of a service-centered economy in the '70s (with all the doubts that came along with it--like Japanese manufacturing eroding the foundation of the American economy; an assessment that reflected suspicion of an economy's ability to thrive on building services rather than things).
But this remains a piece of nonfiction, and it's a handy reference point for anyone who wants to argue that the recent ascendance of the memoir hasn't wiped out artful, ambitious writing.