Word: epical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fight to the finish on the vast stage of the unbroken prairie. The hero is a Galahad with a six-gun, a Perseus of the purple sage. In his saddlebags he carries a new mythology, an American Odyssey that is waiting for its Homer. And the theme of the epic, hidden beneath the circus glitter of the perennial Wild West show, is the immortal theme of every hero myth: man's endless search for the meaning of his life...
...first as a book published in 1952, then as a play produced on Broadway in 1955 (and subsequently in 30 other countries throughout the world), has established itself as the single most heart-stirring document to come out of World War II. Now converted into a movie of epic length (two hours and 50 minutes -39 minutes longer than the play) by Producer-Director George Stevens, Diary takes on new and subtly expanded dimensions. Tighter than the book, more fluid than the play, the film is a masterpiece...
...clammy summer fogs and lashing North Atlantic storms; its climate and soil are so forbidding that the islanders must import a full 90% of their food. St. John's was the last spot of North American soil that Charles Lindbergh glimpsed as he headed eastward in his epic flight to Paris; from Newfoundland's Signal Hill Marconi received the first transatlantic radio message...
...Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, by Nikos Kazantzakis. A neo-Homeric epic...
...Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, by Nikos Kazantzakis. A neo-Homeric epic...