Word: epical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...film talents. But the real star of the picture is that skilled old party, Somerset Maugham, who is seen in the garden of his Cote d'Azur villa as he introduces each of the stories. Author Maugham's latest screen encore serves as a reminder to epic-sated moviegoers that good things often come in small packages...
Tackling the Stony Hill. Hardy's masterpiece in verse is The Dynasts, a vast dramatic epic of the Napoleonic wars and a development of his notion that...
...Charley Olnutt, the gin-oriented riverboat captain, Bogart is immense--not the same old "I wouldn't walk ten feet to watch Krakatoa explode" Bogart, but a new man, an epic slob. He revels in his new role, his eight day beard, dirty tennis shoes, and habit of drinking gin and river water for refreshment. And best of all, when he gets in a clinch with Hepburn, you can just barely detect him laughing at the whole concept of Charley Olnutt, the poor sinner reclaimed by patriotism and selfless love...
Wilder spoke during last year's spring term in Humanities 2 on the epic and the novel, and also gave a series of talks in Sanders Theatre...
...remaining articles, however, are a little short on information, and they serve to remind the reader that, after all, U.S.A. is the N.A.M.'s publication. Perhaps the worst of the lot is Senator Byrd's un instructive and strangely familiar epic on federal expenditures. The Senator gives us a "Byrd's eye view of federal spendorama," and not content with turning this phrase, he explains how many dollars of OUR money the bureaucrats, politicians, and pinks are spending each second of the day. Beyond these gimmicks, Senator Byrd has very little in the way of analysis, discussion, or interpretation...