Word: epical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dorothy Thompson (120 papers, circ. 7,000,000) directs "her monitorial attention to the whole world, which she evidently regards as an obtuse and disorderly place which suffers largely because it won't listen to Dorothy Thompson." Author Fisher is overwhelmed by her epic sweep-"she has never been known to be in doubt about anything." But "in most domestic affairs she never struggled much past a state of mental disorder. In her attitude toward Roosevelt . . . she began with a mild approval of plans to relieve the depression but found herself unable to agree with any which were...
Madam Curie, the quiet yet dramatic story of the foremost woman scientist of our time, is now playing at the U.T. The theme of the picture is the discovery of radium by the Curies, an epic story of human persistence and scientific endeavor. Cast in the leads are Greer Garso and Walter Pidgeon, both of whom play their parts expertly with a degree of sureness and restraint not often seen in these days of B pictures. The supporting parts are also well cast. In particular, Dame May Whity, giving a good characterization of Pierre Curie's mother...
...Epical and Epoch-Making. The Album contains almost no text. Prolific Historian Adams, author of The Epic of America, Empire on the Seven Seas and more than 20 other volumes, limits himself to brief captions. Typical example is his comment on Boughton's painting of the Pilgrims going to church: "This painting is enshrined in the hearts of Americans, and it seems fitting to reproduce it. The men carried their muskets to church, placing them on a gunrack. In the center of the picture is seen the preacher with his Bible. The costume is correct for the period...
...Army defending the Soviet Union as far west as Helsinki," Moscow added ominously. As the Red Army drove into Estonia, 60 miles away across the Gulf of Finland, Moscow's audible, pointed recollections of Finland's part in the bombardment and siege of Leningrad, in the epic sufferings of Leningrad's citizens, sounded sharply prophetic...
...turned up in London last week, primed to take command of British ground troops in the invasion of Western Europe, he had again endeared himself to his men if not to the War Office. He had left with them a forthright farewell summary of the Eighth Army's epic record...