Word: epical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attacked before sunup. One dramatic shot shows U.S. troops raising the flag at reveille while the smoke of battle rises beyond. The flag did not come down. This was an American epic...
Culbert Olson was helped to the Governor's chair by enthusiastic support from the remnants of Upton Sinclair's EPIC following, Ham 'N' Eggers and from organized labor, to whom he had promised the pardon of labor's martyr, Tom Mooney. He since infuriated the Ham 'N' Eggers by turning down their fantastic pension plan, sponsoring one of his own. When war came, others were impatient with his dalliance: for months he bickered with the legislature over providing an adequate State Guard...
...tool business for a while, got bored, began branching out. He and Cinemactor Ralph Graves produced a motion picture, agreed that it was too bad even to release. But he tried again, turned out two minor successes, then gambled $4,000,000 on the war-aviator epic, Hell's Angels. The picture made the late Jean Harlow the biggest box-office attraction in Hollywood -and made Hughes...
...plain, lanky, thin-lipped American, with a weather-beaten face, a dour smile, a sunburned neck: he might have been a hunter in the backwoods of his native Florida. But like the plain, lanky Americans who hacked the nation out of the wilderness, "Vinegar Joe" had created an epic-out of sweat and weariness and malaria, of retreat and desperation and endurance. And last week what he was doing for China (see p. 37) was worth all the noble and encouraging talk in the world...
...symphony than a symphonic suite. Like a great wounded snake, dragging its slow length, it uncoils for 80 minutes from the orchestra. There is little development of its bold, bald, foursquare themes. There is no effort to reduce the symphony's loose, sometimes skeletal structures to the epic compression and economy of the classic symphony...