Word: epic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author. Born in 1876 in the peasant region of Namdalen, north of Trondjem, Norway, Author Duun has written exclusively of the life of his native parish, though his books are far from parochial. His earlier works (Three Friends, The Good Conscience} were preparatory to his six-volume Juviking epic that follows that family's affairs from times when Progenitor Per Anders fights hand to hand with the Devil, to his descendants' struggles with more modern devilish banks and herring-oil factories. Highly prized by his fellow Norwegians (many of whom read him in English translation rather than...
...Spain's favorite national hero whose legendary exploits are celebrated in the Poem a del Cid, oldest Spanish epic (12th Century). Named Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar, he was called El Cid ("the lord...
...enrolled with the Lampoon he was employed along the Gold Coast. Many of his stories dealt with his travels about the world, now as a bath-steward on a North Atlantic liner, now as crew on a cattle-ship. His repertoire included tales of the Boston fire and many epic incidents from Australian experiences. His unique humor and his growing resemblance to Mr. Punch fitted him eminently for his position, and he considered himself an integral part of the building and the Lampoon. Old members, returning, could be sure that Bob would remember them by name, and as a result...
...Good Earth was picked, said the prize-awarding committee, "for its epic sweep, its distinct and moving characterization, its sustained story-interest, its simple and yet richly colored style." The choice was doubly happy for Authoress Buck. A few days prior had been published her third novel, The Young Revolutionist...
...would have been easy for the director to make the love incidents into an over-luscious and trivial idyll, but instead he has managed to give them a distinct epic quality. Similarly, he might have reduced the religious emotion to the common denominator of funeral-parlor music and rapt faces photographed through gauze. Instead, the impressive pictures of St. Peter's and the deep chanting of the choir are allowed to tell their own story without sugar coating. This reviewer has never seen such an authentic setting-forth in a film of the hypnotic power of the Church of Rome...