Word: epical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Germany's Ludwig Beethoven the answer to Memphis' "Menace," Elvis Presley? For two enlightened Yalemen's answer to this epic question, see EDUCATION, Combat the Menace...
...Brave Ones, then, is a marvelous example of cinema craftsmanship that handles a simple theme extraordinarily well and with a rare artistry, but with few concessions to truth. Co-featured is a nauseous dog-epic with Van Johnson, entitled Kelly...
They were double men, harking back nostalgically to the rustic, roughhewn virtues of the Romans who fought the Punic Wars, while themselves breathing the elegant, enervating and sometimes fetid air of imperial Rome. They tended to polish more than to publish. Only Vergil attempted the epic, and he thought so poorly of The Aeneid that on his deathbed he asked to destroy the manuscript. Catullus, Propertius and Tibullus were ravaged by hard-boiled mistresses, and their poems tell of virtually the only battle they ever fought-the war between the sexes. They knew or sensed that their culture...
...honesty attainable by a writer is best shown by Fisher's Vridar Hunter tetralogy, a four-novel Wolfean autobiography written during the Thirties, now reprinted in Cardinal paper-back edition. His objectivity is also shown in what is probably his most famous work--Children of God: An American Epic, a novel of almost a thousand pages which won the 1939 Harper's prize. Several years before the publication of Children of God, Bernard DeVoto had called the story of the Mormon migration the great American novel that will never be written. In his review of Fisher's novel, he acknowledged...
ANTHONY (Fear Strikes Out) PERKINS, who quavers and cracks through A Little Love Can Go a Long, Long Way (Epic) as if he were afraid of being overheard...