Word: epical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...casual, spotty, pre-convention coverage in most of the U. S. press. An exception (in the last weeks) was California: in that abnormal State, advertising aces in the J. Walter Thompson agency did as thorough a promotion job for Mr. Willkie as they had done in 1934 against Upton (EPIC) Sinclair...
...gentleman. Puttering about his garden in Pasadena, Calif., dressed in an old pair of slacks and a flopping canvas hat, Upton Sinclair thought it all up afternoons and evenings while transplanting rosebushes or trimming his favorite fig trees. He has lived that way ever since he lost his EPIC campaign for Governor six years ago. In the mornings he glances at the papers "to see what has happened to the poor old Allies," then settles down to his regular 1,000 words a day. From his windows in the rambling, one-story Sinclair frame house he looks across the Arroyo...
...start on as low a level as he wishes, and move swiftly and cleanly to the peaks. Sibelius's symphonies, especially the last three, have an absolutely economy of notes. Yet within this seemingly small framework, and out of what seem the humblest thematic threads, they weave climaxes of epic dimensions...
...Mormons (the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) used to practice "celestial marriage," better known as polygamy. Last summer sombre Idaho Novelist Vardis Fisher, no Mormon himself though of pioneer Mormon stock, won the $7,500 Harper Prize Novel Contest with Children of God, a 769-page epic of Mormons and their two famed leaders, Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. Author Fisher told in lusty detail of Prophet Smith's plural marriages before his lynching by a mob at Carthage, Ill., in 1844. To Reorganized Mormons, who believe that Joseph Smith neither practiced nor preached polygamy...
Good, grey Historian Adams (The Epic of America) writes with unvarying civility and a firm point of view. It would be hard to find a single top-flight English historian so outspoken in his admiration of British achievement as this U. S. scholar. U. S. readers may feel that Adams' Anglophilia becomes at times a little humid, at times pompous; but by & large it is powerfully sustained...