Word: epic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game showed a superb Harvard eleven in the first half, although it let down in the second. If the Crimson team continues to play during the rest of the season in the same fashion that it has started off the first, it should have little difficulty until the epic Yale contest. No such chance for an untarnished Crimson football record has been seen for many years, and if not further crippled the Harvard eleven has a fine chance for an undefeated season...
...homosexual; Louis and Rhoda are lovers for a while. When you hear Bernard's final speech they are all well along in middle-age; Rhoda has killed herself; the sun has set. The effect of The Waves is less like that of a novel than of an epic; the plane in which the whole narration moves is more like poetry than prose. To this effect the artificial method of the story, in which the characters are like heralds speaking, contributes perhaps as much as the cunningly-contrived sentences. Authoress Woolf does not write the kind of phrases that...
...EPIC OF AMERICA-James Truslow Adams-Little, Brown ($3). Not Prohibition but the U. S. itself, thinks James Truslow Adams, is the noble experiment. He calls it the "American dream." In this one-volume history of the U. S. he shows the beginnings of the dream, its sinkings into nightmare, its lapses into crude daylight reality, its volatile rises. Professional historian, no mealy-mouthed panegyrist, Adams has written his epic in curt, clear narrative; but "the epic loses all its glory without the dream. The statistics of size, population, and wealth would mean nothing to me unless I could still...
...Epic of America does not seek to compete with the ordinary historical or economic narratives of the U. S. With only four brief footnotes, few formal statistics, a broad brush Adams paints a rapid but effective picture, tries at the same time to show "how the ordinary American . . . has become what he is today in outlook, character, and opinion.'' Such oft-told stories as the events of the Revolution and the Civil War, Washington at Valley Forge and Lincoln in his cabin Adams does not retell; but he comments on their causes, their effects on the national character...
...author of so many fat and respectable books of history. In 1921 Founding of New England won him the Pulitzer Prize. Other books: Revolutionary New England, New England in the Republic, Jeffersonian Principles, Hamiltonian Principles. Book-of-the-Month Club judges had no difficulty in making The Epic of America their unanimous selection for October...