Word: epical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...staging the story, for which Jews have been reviled through the centuries (see p. 44), some for cramping into commercial dimensions a grave, long-drawn folk epic. The Palm. Sunday entry into Jerusalem. was a complex, splendid orchestration of crowds flowing in great whorls toward and about the temple portals, looking ever backward to the approaching figure of the Christus. For the Last Supper, Leonardo's faded painting was lavishly restored in living shapes. On Calvary the greensward was cool, terribly oblivious of the burdened crosses. Solemnities of tone from orchestra, organ and choir sounded through the entire pageant...
...this is the man who, according to the present discerning biographer, "shares with Walt Whitman the distinction of being the greatest imaginative writer that America has produced; his epic, Moby Dick, is one of the supreme poetic monuments of the English language; and in depth of experience and religious insight there is scarcely any one in the nineteenth century, with the exception of Dostoyevsky, who can be placed beside...
...Epic. The sentimental cinema version of Moby Dick served as a reminder of the curious, thrilling story of Ahab, monomaniac. "A Khan of the plank and a king of the sea and a great Lord of Leviathans was Ahab." His was a terrific pride, and a consuming lust for vengeance on the White Whale. Moby Dick, who in malice, or in play, or accident, or instinctive self-defense had bitten off Ahab's leg and left him humiliated, crippled, to hobble on a stump of whale ivory. "Ever since that almost fatal encounter Ahab had cherished a wild vindictiveness...
These bartenders comprise the ranking industry. For Tiajuana, exotic as it may sound to the dry and fevered U.S. fancy, is nothing but a couple of dirty streets of barrooms. It is almost epic in its drabness. One bar stretches an entire block and announces itself as "The Longest Bar in the World."* Some have mechanical music; some musicians. Most places have small clearings for dancing. All smell...
...melodramatic. Private Suhren, withal, decidedly concerned with the fortunes of himself, of his girl, and of his three or four closest comrades; it's only when he has particular cause, and can think somewhat coolly, that he grows patriotic. The greatest moments are his alone. So the broad, dispassioned, epic away is missing. The tragedy of a nation is not here, nor does it need to be. The personal narrative succeeds without...