Word: epical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture's chief fault is that the Hollywooden heads, in attempting to produce a "best-seller," have turned a simple, true story into a lurid piece of sensationalism. Instead of the inspiring epic recited by President Roosevelt in his famous 1942 radio address, one sees a movie distinguished by its attempts to turn Dr. Wassell into a Lou Gehrig or a Sergeant York...
...masterpiece. It is a masterpiece in the way that Tolstoy's novels are, rather than Shakespeare's plays-i.e., it is deliberate, sustained, careful (often tiresomely so), rather than spontaneous and overflowing with its own imaginative energy. The final volume's 606 pages bring the epic of Joseph to its end (Bible version, 21 pages; Mann's version, 2,005 pages). Few readers will want to know all of Mann's retelling of the story, the resuscitation of Egyptian and Hebrew thought and customs with which he surrounds it, the lessons for the modern...
Your stark, epic portrait [TIME, May 8] of General Wainwright is the most challenging pictorial document of the war. His face illuminates all the tragedy, stoicism and heartbreak that men everywhere are enduring. As a shaming denunciation of "life as usual" and as a great inspiration for sacrifice it is unsurpassed...
Merrill's Epic. Stilwell's main force, by this time about 50 miles northwest of Myitkyina, had an ace up its sleeve. A group of Merrill's Marauders were on the move. In a 23-day mountain march that was one of the epic infantry advances of the war they slid through Japanese lines in three columns, emerged north, south and west of Myitkyina...
Perhaps in the early days of the epic the original company had the ability to present some sort of social message. But the present conglomeration does little more than drift from one vaguely funny bit of profanity to the next. If there is any vestige of significance in the play at all, it is destroyed by a cast that neither understands what the author was trying to get at, nor tries in any way to say anything important...