Word: epical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although Wilder can walk now, his doctor, Charles F. Walcott '26, expects that he won't be able to return to his "Epic and the Novel" course for at least two more weeks. A conference of section men will meet today to determine the program of the course after Hugo finishes...
...comic strip called "The Berrys," which won a fourth prize, is the day-to-day epic of a dumb but well intentioned father, a port mother, and two sweet mischievous kiddies. Another freedom award was given to Pasadena's "Tournament of Roses" committee because it sponsored a parade dedicated to "Our American Heritage." Even advertising campaigns dramatizing weary American pioneers trudging through vast wildernesses rated freedom medals. These do not contribute much to understanding freedom, but play up "Americanism" for its own sake...
...glad to be back in the thick of it again? The answer was an epic shrug and a Slavic expostulation as follows...
Last Close-Ups? The Thomas epic, Out of This World, was written by 27-year-old Lowell Jr. in the man-on-a-magic-carpet tone his father favors. The tone still works; the book has already sold 100,000 copies and climbed high on the bestseller lists...
...America's top portrait sculptors. He first gained fame in Washington with a posthumous portrait of James Forrestal, which now stands in the Mall entrance to the Pentagon. Kallio read everything he could find about Forrestal, decided he resembled "a character in the Kalevala [Finland's national epic] who worked hard all his life, was good, and finally stabbed himself...