Word: epic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...symphonies of Mozart, who wrote his first when he was eight, and died at an age (34) when the average composer is just beginning to hit his stride. But the big symphonies of the German romantic period usually came comparatively late in their composers' lives. Great epic Symphonist Beethoven, who wrote nine, waited until 30 to write his first one; Symphonist Brahms waited until he was 43; Symphonist Bruckner until...
...University, does not, like so many good pictures, herald a relapse in programs. On the contrary, "Gold Is Where You Find It," which will succeed "The Buccaneer" on Sunday, carries on as one of the finest pictures of its kind. Photographed entirely in technicolor, it is an epic of early California when the issue of the day was between gold and wheat. George Brent is excellent as the young mining engineer, and Olivia De Haviland is convincing enough as the passionate exponent of agriculture. The picture is well worth seeing by any homeless Harvard waifs incarcerated here over the weekend...
...material welfare, these are the values which James Stewart learns, slowly, painfully, in a picture as fine as it is occasionally lugubrious. Walter Huston and Beulah Bondi, who are cast as Mr. Stewart's parents, impecunious Ohio settlers, bring dignity and feeling to their parts. A pseudo-historical epic, "Of Human Hearts" has many flaws, but is so sympathetic that one is inclined to overlook them. "Swing Your Lady," on the same bill, is not recommended...
Wires hummed and pulses ran high last night as today's epic alley struggle between the Campus Cops and Harvard "Yahd" police drew near...
...Cantos, one by one, record Poet Pound's attempted circumnavigation of the world of space-time curved within the convolutions of his brain. The voyage proceeds along a course unexploited by earlier epic navigators. These poet-navigators attempted to carry their loads to their readers' understandings somewhat as Australian grain boats, knot by knot, carry wheat to Liverpool. Poet Pound's boating is more like a torpedo bug's: he scoots about his map every which way, and tries to be everywhere on it as simultaneously as possible...