Word: epical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rich and growing roster of recording labels in the U.S., two new and distinctly major labels have been added. Their names are Angel and Epic, both feature luxurious recorded sound, and U.S. record buyers are due to hear a good deal more of them...
Humanities 2, which deals with "The Epic and the Novel" and is given by John H. Finley '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, has 630 men and 92 Radcliffe students enrolled. Last year, it was third in popularity...
Whether flexing its muscles or breathing sighs, Fan Fan is hilarious entertainment. Swiftly paced, with the indifference to order and logic of an Olsen and Johnson epic, this picture makes farce and slapstick seem like high comedy and arch satire. And most of the credit goes to the two stars...
...first wide-screen CinemaScope epic, soth Century-Fox's The Robe, was breaking box-office records all over the country. Manhattan's Roxy Theater reported a first-week gross of $264,000. It was the same story in Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Kansas City and San Francisco. Foxmen dreamily talked of total earnings topping Gone With the Wind's record $35 million take. Hollywood Reporter Columnist Mike Connolly wrote: "The Robe just has to be the greatest grosser of all time. It might even outsell the Bible...
...brief narration which opens the film, introducing the sea as the villain, forecasts an epic. What follows, however, is a sprawling documentary, tedious in its length and disinterest in character, but at the same time impressive in picturing the danger and frustration of the corvette's task. With several delicate director's touches The Cruel Sea communicates the breathless silence of perilous halts in mid-ocean for rescues or repairs, and there are two scenes remarkable for stark visual impact-the sinking of H.M.S. Compass Rose, and the running down of floating survivors in a vain attempt to destroy...