Word: epical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sponsored by wealthy Fascist patrons- Poet Virgilio Fiorentino has just produced an epic of 20,000 verses "priced at 12,980 lire ($675) the set, handsomely bound and illustrated." Title: Twenty-Seven Songs of the Fascist Revolution. At the rate of one song (volume) per month, the 27 volumes will appear during the next three and a quarter years, subscribers paying by the volume (month...
...Epic among housewreckers' tales is the story of the demolition of the old vault in New York's Mechanics & Metals National Bank Building, when the site was cleared for the new Chase Na- tional building. Merely to remove the two 34-ton vault doors took three weeks. Four more weeks of siege and the roof was dislodged. Two 500-ton hydraulic jacks were then put inside the vault, and the walls were forced apart by internal pressure. The entire siege lasted three months...
Lost Gods (Epic). The lecture that goes with this travelog is not particularly good and the photography is only fair, but the material itself is so fascinating that Lost Gods becomes one of the best current illustrations of the educative function of the cinema. It is a record of the expedition, supervised by the Algiers Museum, of the travels in Libya of Archeologist Count Byron Khun de Prorok, whose excavations are made conceivable to non- archeological audiences by the explanation that he is looking for the golden tomb of the White Goddess of the Sahara. Some of the things...
With Byrd at the South Pole (Paramount). No matter what the scientific value of the Byrd expedition, there is no doubting the fact that Byrd's two photographers, Joseph Rucker and Willard Van der Veer, did some epic work. They show you clearly what an exploration party is like: men dealing minutely with a great isolation, making laborious preparations against hypothetical crises, living every day so as to come a step nearer an illusory goal. Pushing past the Ross Barrier (wall of ice guarding Antarctica) to and over the Queen Maude Mountains, Byrd and his men moved...
Hush! Didst hear the glad tidings? They are to remain staidly reasonable. Long ducks and huge knickers will still suit the fancy. No shades of epic athletes or even Fauntleroys will haunt the Yard. Perhaps it would be wise to bolster the resolution by a vote of appreciation in behalf of The Rest of Us for the great-mindedness which is to uphold the dignity of human sense and sensibility. Suggestions as to the means of such expression are respectfully requested. Mehitable, in The Radcliffe Daily...