Word: epical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this age of Hollywood blood-and-thunder war movies, all of which preach some sort of a hackneyed message, there is nothing more refreshing than to see a brilliant war film like the twelve year-old "Grand Illusion." Starring Erich von Stroheim and Jean Gabin, this old-French epic concerns the fate of a group of French prisoners in Germany during the first World...
...this point the Japanese "intervention" in China drew Chiang's energies elsewhere. Mao and Chu, leading a Red army of 80,000 men, were able to break through the Nationalist encirclement and flee to the northwest. Thus began what the Chinese Communists consider their great epic-the Long March...
...model is an epic of minute historical research. Unlike the first model--now on display in Widener--which shows contemporary Harvard, this one will present buildings most of which were torn down long ago. The problem for its builders was what to base their scale models...
...Secretary of Education, Ivan has charge of the making of a government film epic on the life of San Martin. Recently, he summoned Argentina's top movie actors to his office, assigned them roles. The one part left unfilled was that of the Liberator. The actors went away with a strong impression that Oscar Ivanissevich was saving it for himself...
University Professor I. A. Richards, who conducts Humanities 1, said the book had some merit, especially in the chapters reviewing "The Iliad" and "The Epic of the Hebrews." The section about the Book of Job, however, he described as "purest rubbish." Richards decried the use of review books "since exam questions are designed to make them useless...