Word: epical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ulysses diminishes . . . from comic epic to the curiosity of a learned crossword puzzle and, as such, a major, unrequited European export to the scholar-technicians of the American universities. They find more and more in it, as we find less and less...
Source of Information: Principally the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems by blind Homer, the greatest poet of classical antiquity and the greatest war correspondent of all time...
...what is perhaps the most grossly disfigured parcel of Harvard's real estate, stands a gravestone with obscure and uninformative markings. Oliver Wendell Holmes, who issued Old Ironsides from the house whose site the stone marks, no doubt would have rescued his birthplace from such funereal treatment with another epic, but, as it was, all he got around to was a written gabfest at his breakfast table...
Mozart: Don Giovanni (Epic). One of the world's great operas performed with ardor and urgency...
Honegger: A Christmas Cantata (Michel Roux; Lamoureux Orchestra, choirs and organ conducted by Paul Sacher; Epic). A pacing, brooding opening chorus wells up to a shrieking appeal to the Saviour. After that, the music carries on with more competence than excitement, but it does weave in several Christmas carols (sung in their original languages by children) to make a big, festive impression. A typical work by the first member of France's famed...