Word: epical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remains the same. Harvard's Beat Generation is attempting to survive the summer on a dollar a day--waiting for the publisher's advance, the completed symphony, or a Beacon Street-sponsored gallery exhibition. It is a long, hot, and purgative summer; and, in its way, a time of epic proportions...
...Albert had difficulty deciding whose horn he was tooting-Puccini's or Richard Strauss's. The only currently heard remnant of his life's work is Tiefland (1903). Often played in Germany and occasionally produced in the U.S., it has now been painstakingly embalmed by Epic...
This book aspires to "an epic calm . . . the calm of the graveyard." The graveyard is the Warsaw ghetto. The epic is the story of the last hopeless resistance of 500,000 Jews to their Nazi exterminators. Nearly two decades after the event, the reader feels not only horror but a sense of wonder at having lived through a time that gave birth to such crimes...
September, 1954, was not a particularly important juncture in the history of Harvard University. Nor, for that matter, does June, 1958, bear any apparent epic significance for that institution. The only historical period that can be marked by these dates is that of the attendance of the Class of 1958 in Harvard College, and there is little evidence that any great effect can be traced to that circumstance...
After years in the national doghouse, Howard Fast renounced Communism, and is now thoroughly rehabilitated: this week he sold another novel to the movies, to be made into a $4,000,000 epic of sin, slaughter, and spectacle (not socialism) in ancient Rome. The history of Fast's career provides disturbing evidence of the existence in America of an informal conspiracy, not so much to prevent the dissemination of Communist propaganda, as to prevent Communist artists from making a living...