Word: epical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...products. Except for the support of individual Utopians it has no connection with the Utopian Society, a mystic mixture of Technocracy, Communism and Ku Klux Klannishness which sprouted in Los Angeles and is now burgeoning throughout the West. It does not even have the sympathy of Upton Sinclair, whose EPIC plan would pension all oldsters at a mere $50 per month. Candidate Sinclair has said of it: "It would only take money away from able-bodied young people and give it to a group of old persons. It would impose an exorbitant sales tax which the masses would find impossible...
...week. That such luxurious free publicity should have brought Today only 59,000 circulation in its first year is a baffling fact. But last week Editor Raymond Moley proved that, if he is not a successful editor, he is an honest one. His subject was California's Upton ("Epic") Sinclair. Had he aped all bigwig Democrats-Senator William Gibbs ("McAdoodle") McAdoo or James Aloysius Farley or even No. 1 Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt-he would have scratched the back of Democracy's latest, queerest duckling. Instead, spunky Editor Moley wrote...
...seeing within its own frontiers what has come to be a commonplace of Europe?vast sums of timid money skittering out of a country at the first rumor of devaluation or rebellion. By last week the flight of capital from sunny California and the EPIC plans of its Democratic nominee for Governor had become a major market factor...
Even as late as the 19th Century, serious poets believed in writing long epic poems. With some notable exceptions, modern poets generally have given themselves to voicing their own insulted and injured state. Thomas Stearns Eliot's epic of introspection, The Waste Land, has for years been considered the representative poem of the modern age. The Grand National for winged steeds has not been run for some time, but there are signs that poets may be tuning up their mounts for more than the usual private canter. Critics who hardly raised their eyes at Stephen Vincent Benét's John...
Three years ago James Truslow Adams described (in The Epic of America) what he called "the American dream"-that state of spiritual somnambulism in which all men were to have an equal chance in a brand new world. Like most patriotic U. S. citizens, Author Adams regards this idealistic belief as the essential promise of his country. Last fortnight, in more realistic vein, he described one of the tragic fulfilments of the U. S. dream. Soundly documented and popularly written America's Tragedy traces U. S. sectionalism from its colonial beginnings to the aftermath of the Civil...