Word: epic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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German authors like to give themselves plenty of room. Good German Author Arnold Zweig* herewith puts out the first volume of his War epic. Volumes 2 and 4 (Education before Verdun, The Crowning of a King') are still to come. Volume 3 is the already-published The Case of Sergeant Grischa, one of the few good War books, often compared with the world-best-selling All Quiet on the Western Front, sometimes preferred...
...Conquerors (RKO) is a somewhat editorial epic urging cinemaddicts not to sell the U. S. short. It starts in the post-Civil War Depression, shows Richard Dix and Ann Harding, newly married and in financial straits, setting out for the West. Richard Dix is shot by the Slade Boys. He stops to recover in a Midwest village, settles down there to start a bank and a family. His small son is run over by the first train that goes through the town. His daughter grows up to look a great deal like Ann Harding, marries a teller in the bank...
However that may be, Masefield's latest production, "A Tale of Troy," is disappointing even to his admirers. It is absorbingly interesting, and as a short story it may live and be enjoyed, but it is an absurd prostitution of an epic theme. The author has imitated classic simplicity and primitive crudeness; he has made his characters tell the tale, and thereby lost the godlike detachment of the theme; he has tried the balled stanza and has made a Indicrous failure of that difficult form so losing all claim to poetic merit. Use of the classic device anacolnthon has made...
...word might be said about Dr. Blossom's translation. In many ways it lacks that which made C. K. Scott-Moncriess' translation, one of the best examples of the art in English. The Classic flavor, for instance, of that great scholar's prose, so admirably suited to the epic "Remembrance of Things Past" is, has disappeared. On the other hand, Dr. Blossom has a marvelous command of the colloquial idiom which brings out another side of Proust's French. But in any case, "The Past Recaptured" is a vast improvement over the former translation, never published in this country, titled...
Holy Cross, which meets Harvard in their annual encounter right after the West Point game and just before the epic Crimson-Blue clash, has had one touchdown scored on it in every game thus far, although it has piled up a total of 71 points against its opponents' 18. Its last victim was little Maine, which came out on the tail end of a 32-6 score. The Crusaders will meet Brown the week before they travel to Cambridge, so there will be plenty of room for a comparison of scores, but so far the Hely Cross players have...