Word: epical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having bought ample space in two such solidly capitalistic papers as the N.Y. Herald Tribune and the N.Y. Times, 326 citizens of more or less good will invited the nation to follow the newest Communist party line. The occasion: the tenth anniversary of Georgi Dimitrov's epic Reichstag trial. The citizens: a spicy mixture of Earl Browder, Arturo Toscanini, Lillian Hellman. The party line: a united front of "progressives, liberals and democrats" behind Georgi Dimitrov. (Most newspaper readers asked themselves blankly: "Now who the hell...
Last week the New York Times, with a front-page lead and two pages inside, recognized the Partisans of Yugoslavia (TIME, Dec. 14, 1942, et seq.). In Cairo, where Correspondent C. L. Sulzberger filed the epic dispatch, once-hostile British censors passed a flood of encomiums to the Partisans, to their commander, Marshal Josip Broz ("Tito"), and to a party of Partisan officers who had come to Egypt. One booster even spread the report that Marshal Broz's favorite books are War & Peace and Pickwick Papers...
...corrupt vicissitudes of Europe between wars. Sinclair Lewis' Gideon Planish ($2.50), a withering blast at phony philanthropists and do-gooders, awoke pale memories of Elmer Gantry. With The Forest and the Fort ($2.50), Anthony Adverse's Hervey Allen hewed out Vol. I of a projected six-volume epic novel about American life from Colonial days to the Civil War. In Thunderhead ($2.75), Mary O'Hara told, with delicate feeling for animals, a very human life story of a horse, a sequel to her My Friend Flicka. Martin Flavin's Harper ($10,000) prize novel, Journey...
...Malta Epic (Appleton-Century; $3), Author Hay's first book about World War II, may or may not be a bestseller. But it is the most crackling and inclusive of several recent books about "the most bombed spot on earth."* The concussive quality of Author Hay's Malta narrative is measureable in part by three Malta facts...
Swing Shift Maisie (M.G.M.) is one of those B-budget marrow bones which are tossed to the simple appetites of the sticks, but which many a choosy cinemaddict prefers to the average A-budget epic. In part this is due to Cinemactress...