Word: epical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...curse of his father's gridiron fame upon him, and suffers indescribable anguish when he proves himself an utter clout on every sort of playing field. In time, however, he overcomes what appears to be only a psychological condition, and wins the Yale hockey game with brilliant playing. This epic contains the usual amount of back-slapping, athletic "horse-play", and fighting for the team which such works usually offer...
...others ... it is a first look at something brand-new to their thinking. These come to us as religious illiterates. They are totally ignorant of Biblical literature . . . What they find, when they look for a first time with relatively mature minds at the Hebrew Epic, the Hebrew prophets, the wisdom of the authors of Job, the life and teachings of Jesus, the Resurrection Faith of the early Christian church, the synoptic vision of an Augustine or Thomas Aquinas, the courage of Luther or the consistency of Calvin, the . . . challenging insights of Kierkegaard, Buber, Earth, Tillich, or the Niebuhrs-what they...
...perennial runner-up, Halldor Kiljan (Independent People) Laxness (rhymes with knocks mess), Iceland's epic chronicler of poets and peasants, at last won the Nobel Prize for literature. A winner of the Communist World Council for Peace Prize in 1953. Laxness, 53. bills himself as an "idealistic socialist," advises readers to judge the color of his philosophy from his books. His heroes are usually found struggling in the toils of nature and landed ogres, dying in blizzards, falling with boot-broken backs. First Icelander ever to win a Nobel Prize, he hoped that Iceland's tax collectors "will...
Last week, in reply to published charges that the Stead school is one of epic brutality, its top officers were summoned to Washington, where they met with Lieut. General Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell Jr., the Air Force deputy chief of personnel. The Steadmen, Colonel Burton E. McKenzie, school commander, and Major John Oliphant, training director, later reported that O'Donnell had commended them and that they contemplated no change in the school's program...
Svengali (M-G-M). Faced with making a 1955 movie out of Trilby, George du Maurier's period novel of 1894, Director Noel Langley decided to play the story straight. As a result, moviegoers get a full treatment of the giant-sized nobilities and epic despairs that swirl up from Victorian drama, reflected in the iridescent mirror of fin de siecle Paris...