Word: epical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rest of the country will be supplied with a gauge to measure the size and significance of the New Radicalism. Rarely has a state campaign evoked more national attention than that of Upton Sinclair of Pasadena and his plan to "End Poverty in California" which he calls EPIC and Publisher Hearst calls Ipecac. No politician since William Jennings Bryan has so horrified and outraged the Vested Interests. Those whose stakes in California are greatest hold themselves personally responsible to their class throughout the nation to smash Upton Sinclair. They hate him as a muckraker. They hate him as a Socialist...
...Southern California, a prime hot house for odd schemes, EPIC received its full share of attention from Theosophists, spiritualists, vegetarians. Populists, Single Taxers, Rosicrucians, crackpots, faddists and cultists of every sort. But it would not have survived a season had it not also made a strong appeal to California's desperate 425,000 unemployed and their 800,000 dependents. EPIC clubs sprang up overnight until by last week they numbered 1,000. And Upton Sinclair found himself a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor. "I found I was not getting anywhere as a Socialist," explained...
...result of his Eastern junket, word was spread through the Democracy that genial Mr. Sinclair could be "handled." Told off to do the handling in California were Messrs. McAdoo and Creel. At the Democratic State Convention the party platform failed to mention the name EPIC, made no commitments as to the Sinclair proposals for land colonies, scrip, bond issues, high income taxes or pensions. EPIC was emasculated save for pledges to put the unemployed to work at productive labor, enabling them to produce what they could consume; to put the State's credit and resources behind cooperative self-help...
...Such an epic could certainly be written about the airmen of the War. Poet Leighton Brewer has not done it, but he has shown the possibilities. A veteran of the U. S. Air Service in France, Poet Brewer sings a long paean to his old comrades of Tours, Issoudun and the Western Front. Riders of the Sky, "a combination of fact and fiction and legend," brings in many an actual person and event. Some of the characters: "Gil" Winant (now Governor of New Hampshire), Eddie Rickenbacker, the late Quentin Roosevelt, Frank Luke, "Hobey" Baker. Author Brewer's reference to himself...
Poet Frank Ernest Hill's The Westward Star, a narrative of covered-wagon days, points to another U.S. epic that has yet to be given definitive form. Poet Hill plucks his lyre with a surer hand. Though few would compare him with Homer, many would place him close to Masefield. A wagon train bound for the West, just before the days of the gold rush, comes safely through the central prairies, then divides, some for Oregon, some for the shorter but more dangerous trail to Cali fornia. To get her daughter Celeste away from Emmet, a rough-&-ready Westerner...