Word: epical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MIDLANDER-Booth Tarkington -Doubleday ($2.00). Mr. Tarkington has written the booster's epic. Dan Oliphant is the apostle of hustle. He is a gorgeous, epochal Babbitt. Unfortunately, he imports his wife from the East-a pretty, self-willed little product of civilization who hates the West fully as much as the West hates her. The book proceeds through pages of mutual irritation and tantrums, until, between the wife and the son who is like her, Dan is brought to an early grave just as the town, justifying his faith in its power of growth, vindicates his years of fierce...
...epic of world wanderings and a career in journalism came to an end with the death of John Revelstoke Rathom, at the age of 55. He was born on July 4, 1868, in Australia, and after many wayfarings died in Rhode Island...
Such symposiums need not be confined to the realms of science. Surveys in other realms of human scholarship are just as necessary and should prove to have the same values as the Science Symposiums. The lectures given last year on the four great epic poets were of this nature, and their popularity among the undergraduate body attests the need for them which was felt. Extra-curriculum lectures will go far toward solving the problem of a host of students who wish to be more than specialists in "eighteenth century literature" or "money and banking...
Jack London knew odd corners of America?but the America he knew has already altered. And the others who have tried of recent years have used the slick technique of the magazines or dropped into easy burlesque. The epic remains to be written?and it will not be an epic of easy circumstances. Too many of our moderns of promise are already cursed with ease?seeming tied to the same narrow slice of life where every one is more or less of a gentleman. True, the soil is coming into its own somewhat?and the men of the soil?...
...bony armor and a hard, sharp, poison-tipped tail. Only a Fabre could be intimate with him. He digs his own home in the sand under rocks. He feels his way with his pincers, because, despite his eight staring eyes, he cannot see straight ahead. His courtship is an epic, ending in the slaughter of the ardent male by his cannibal mate. Fabre in his last years, though always living in poverty, received the acclaim of Science and of la patrie. He was the friend of many great men-John Stuart Mill, Hugo, Pasteur, Frédéric Mistral...