Word: epical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book, evidently designed for Humanities 1 and 2, is entitled "The Ancient Epic" and condenses "The Iliad," "The Odyssey," "The Aeneid," and two sections from the Bible...
...River. Howard Hawks's rattling good western about an epic cattle drive, with John Wayne and Montgomery Clift (TIME, Oct.11...
...overtaxed his heart, his eyesight failed, and he became too crippled with arthritis to sit on a horse. He wrote a novel-the sort of book, said Van Wyck Brooks, read only by friends of the author -and The Oregon Trail and The Conspiracy of Pontiac, but the great epic of exploration and conquest that he visualized was not even begun...
...movie on the double-bill is "Rose of the Yukon," and it's awful. But it is interesting in that it shows how producers of "B" pictures have jumped on the "hate-Russia" bandwagon. Instead of cattle rustlers or foreign baddies of obscure allegiance, this touching and horrible little epic of the far north has a real live Soviet Union as the agent of evil. One Russian thug is even made up to look just like Stalin, to clear up any doubts the audience might have...
...Plainfield, N. J., on behalf of a jungle epic called Man Eater of Kumaon, ushers took turns stuffing themselves into a tiger skin to do some pacing and growling in the lobby...