Word: epical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Containing everything from the Pierian well water of Johann Sebastian Bach to the violet-bordered stream of Schubert's Ave Maria, Fantasia is a long succession of very large orders. Some of these orders (the flower, fish and mushroom dances of the Nutcracker Suite, the hulking, saurian epic of Stravinsky's Rite, the eerie, fantastic Night on Bald Mountain) are so beautifully filled that they may leave callous critics whispering incredulously to themselves. Others (Mickey's Sorcerer's Apprentice, the hilarious ostrich and hippopotamus ballets) set a new high in Disney animal muggery. Others (the wave...
Elmer is here again. In case you haven't been following Ring Lardner's epic of baseball's biggest swell-head. Elmer, whether on screen or stage, has for years and years been Joe E. Brown. For those interested in statistics, his mouth has stretched exactly one-eighth of an inch, which only makes his smile the more enticing and allows him to shovel down ham, doughnuts, milk and pie in an increasing ratio throughout the play. Between these two processes, Joe E. is as human, lovable and Laughable as ever...
...Hart's experiences buying a farm house in Bucks County, Pa. This seems to have been such an amusing episode in the life of la famille Hart that Moss just couldn't wait to phone up his pal George, and to get to work on a new epic about the problems of New York cliff-dwellers who are suddenly transplanted to a farm house, vintage 1740. The trials and tribulations of the family include water-supply, insects in all shapes and sizes, equally troublesome relatives, and a summer theatre. "Mix all these things up," you can imagine Moss telling...
With the help of Darryl Zanuck's millions and Louis Bromfield's doubtful dramatic talent another grand American screen epic has been born. "Brigham Young--Frontiersman" deals with the Mormon migration to Utah, with hatred and persecution in the good old days. The story is told with much sympathy and technical skill, but bogs down and struggles forward as painfully as the pioneers themselves...
Heirs of Revolution. The great men of The Flowering of New England had been Emerson, Thoreau, Lowell, Longfellow, Hawthorne, Holmes. In a prose stanza with the roll of an epic, Critic Brooks described their significance: "As heirs of the Revolution, they spoke for the liberal world-community. As men who loved the land and rural customs, they shared the popular life in its roots, at its source. As readers and students of the classics, they followed great patterns of behavior, those that Europeans followed also. In short, as magnanimous men, well seasoned, they wrote with a certain authority...