Word: epical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard to conceive what new victories would seem epic at the end of last week. For last week was the greatest, the happiest week of the war for Russia's armies. The triumphs of the week were dizzying. New possibilities were unfolded which a month ago would have seemed fantastic. The focus of war had suddenly moved westward. Men's eyes turned toward the Dnieper, toward the old borders of Russia-toward Berlin...
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 as, nor tries in any way to say anything important...
...cascade . . . flowing from the top of the stairway all the way down to the entrance hall . . . that whole great stairway inundated by a river of plaster majestically pouring down was most startling. . . . I was forced to stop to admire this sight, which I mentally compared with something as epic as the burning of Rome. . . ." Having described this epic, Dali confesses that the "whole episode of the plaster inundation was but an illusion." Observes Dali: ". . . I had just begun to read Sigmund Freud's Interpretation of Dreams...
...Lyon, hell-flying hero of the epic Hell's Angels and many another derring-do flicker, the event was a victory over brass-hat morale builders who had wanted him to be a tidily uniformed entertainer. But to the soldiers, sailors and airmen who, since November 1939, have listened in weekly to an Empire broadcast titled Hi, Gang!, the U.S.A.A.F.'s gain was a loss felt from Iceland to New Guinea. For unnumbered U.S. servicemen have also been eager tuners-in to the show which Ben Lyon, his wife Bebe Daniels, and Vic Oliver have...
...Which We Serve (Two Cities-British Lion; United Artists) is the first really great picture of World War II. Less epic than All Quiet on the Western Front, the cinema's classic on World War I, In Which is more moving. It is the story of a British destroyer, from her launching in 1939 to her sinking off Crete in 1941. So real is her story and that of the men who sailed in her that when the film was first shown in London, tears poured down the cheeks of bluejackets and hardened critics...