Word: epical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This great epic," said Albion, "is in the great tradition of the sea and will undoubtedly crop up time and again whenever men recall the outstanding cases of maritime heroism...
...Vadis (MGM) is the costliest movie ever made-$6,500,000* worth of grandeur, violence, faith and fleshpots, glittering with Technicolor and set against the epic clash of Christianity and paganism in Nero's Rome. The film has more lions (63) than most movies have actors; its 30,000 extras outnumber the working population of Hollywood; its army of technicians spent 24 days stoking the conflagration of Rome, which burned only nine days for Nero himself. For sheer size, opulence and technical razzle-dazzle, Quo Vadis is the year's most impressive cinematic sight-seeing spree...
Perhaps the last epic of its scope...
Across the Wide Missouri (MGM) boasts all the expansive paraphernalia of a painstaking Hollywood epic: vast stretches of the rugged Colorado outdoors, superbly photographed in Technicolor; a conscientious effort to show how trappers actually looked and lived in the Western wilderness of 1830; a big cast headed by Clark Gable in one of his manliest roles. Unfortunately, all the color and muscle is not enough to hide the script's severe case of dramatic anemia...
With Humanities 2 in third position, GE has made an almost complete sweep "Epic and Novel," taught by John H. Finley '25, Professor of Greek Literature, has an enrollment of 485 men and women...