Word: epical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lamar Trotti's scenario are above average, but both dangerously approach the common flag-waving touch. It is the essentially accurate re-creation of history with successful balance of insight and showmanship that makes "Wilson" first-rate. It rests on its merits of candor and taste as a stirring epic of the United States...
Hollywood moved to protect its celluloid epics from the competition of epic news from Europe. Reported Variety last week: producers now add a clause to all contracts, permitting them to cancel the premiere of any super-picture, if peace breaks out in Europe as the picture is about to have a razzle-dazzle opening...
...down with her. Far away in the Welsh mountains, 31-year-old Gerard Manley Hopkins, a Jesuit novice, was shocked by the catastrophe into writing his first poem in seven years. He sent The Wreck of the Deutschland to his young friend, Poet Robert Bridges, who carefully pasted the epic into an album. There it remained for 40 years, until publication of Hopkins' collected works brought the long-dead Jesuit acclaim as one of the most remarkable poets...
...almost anything in the way of self-destruction from Japanese soldiers. They have read the story, in Japanese newspapers, of the "dauntless courage of Captain Yamazaki"-in the seventh paragraph it is revealed that Captain Yamazaki's courage consisted in destroying himself. But none were prepared for this epic self-slaughter among civilians. More than one U.S. fighting man was killed trying to rescue a Jap from his wanton suicide...
Miss MacDonald first came to Harvard in January, 1902, a bright girl of 20 who was hired as executive secretary to the Committee. Her career was an unbroken epic of service for three Admissions Directors, John G. Hart '93, Henry Penny packer '88, and Richard M. Gummere '07, present Director, under whom she attained the rank of Administrative Assistant...