Word: epic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several days before the execution last week the sensational press tried to inject into it some of the epic quality of the capture. Notably energetic was Hearst's evening Journal. It tried to engineer a last-minute visit of Helen Walsh, the girl friend, to the death house; it assigned seven reporters and photographers to the story and ballyhooed it with a radio broadcast by the city editor. Other newsmen at the prison called the proceedings ''The Journal's execution...
...affections of Mr. Warren's wife, Edith, Mrs. Storey's cousin. Mrs. Warren filed suit for divorce in Minden, Nev. Declared Mr. Warren's attorneys: "No scandal is connected with the case." Resigned. James Truslow Adams, U. S. historian, author of The Adams Family, The Epic of America; from the Pulitzer Prize History Committee. Reasons: 1) residence in London (confirmed); 2) friction with the committee (unconfirmed) of which he has been chairman for two years...
...sing some selections from its repertoire in the Junior Common Room. The dinner to which the whole House has been invited, with President Lowell as guest of honor, will he followed by songs from Dr. A. T. Davison's chorus, and by the reading of a poem entitled, "The Epic of Epics", written by a member of the House, and recited by him in the disguise of Santa Claus...
Since the days of Michael Wigglesworth (1631-1705) many a poet has aspired to write the American epic. Latest to throw his black Mexican hat into the ring is Phelps Putnam, whose hero, Bill Williams, is wandering through America, which he frankly characterizes as Hell. To Bill's amours and rowdy friends, a small number of readers were first introduced when Poet Putnam's Trine appeared in 1927. In The Five Seasons, Bill no longer is a mere collection of verse, but emerges as an American character to whom Epicist Putnam has dedicated his life...
First in Honor Mods a year and two thirds, or five terms, of epic, drama, and oratory. Aristophanes, Euripides, Sophocles Aoschylus, Homer, Lucretius, Demosthenes and Cicero. Remember that he is quite capable of getting through the thousand odd lines of the "Bacchae" in one long night when he first appears in Oxford. Then on this foundation Greats--two years and a third, or seven terms of history and philosophy. Thucydides, Herodotus, Livy, and Tacitus, and most of all Plato's "Republic" and Aristotle's "Nichomachean Ethics." This is supplemented by Bury and Meyer in Greek history and by Descartes, Hume...