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Word: epical (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Doubtless all this comes under the headings of Spectacle and Epic Drama, and loud and thunderous background music does nothing to detract from this conception. But to the less impressionable moviegoer it will probably seem little more than a glaring example of Hollywood gone hog-wild on the road to nowhere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/13/1947 | See Source »

Mile Nicole Cartler-Bresson will lecture in English on "The Revival of Epic Poetry in France During World War II" this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in the Modern Language Center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lecture on French Poetry | 4/24/1947 | See Source »

Committee Chairman W. A. Douglas, in his defensive explanation, has keynoted the finest in totalitarian thought in his epic statement: "We have no objections to the Crockers personally, other than that they are not white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 10, 1947 | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...never heard from again. It is possible that Mme. Leon, thought to be in the south of France, has some of the notebooks from which students of Joyce might learn more of his plans for the work which death interrupted. By one account it was to be an epic on the sea; by another, a classic tragedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Traveling Joyce | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...Time, etc," embraces exactly the elements you invariably have to endure in these epic events from the California flicker factory the Broadway musical show produced on a shoestring, the leading lady stepping into and out of her big role, the in genus who was weaned on opera, the "name" orchestra leader who can't act. S. E. Sakall, the "show must go on" routine, and the rest of the standard attractions done in the standard manner. You must have seen it all a couple of times, at least...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/13/1947 | See Source »

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