Word: epical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...painting-before being a war horse, a nude woman or some anecdote-is essentially a flat surface covered with colors arranged in a certain order," said one painter-polemicist, Maurice Denis, in 1890. Thus began the rapid but epic evolution in which representation was first blurred, then distorted, then broken into fragments and finally disappeared altogether in abstraction. The artists arrogated to themselves (as did the poets at the same time) the right to say what art was, with the added inference that if the viewer (or reader) did not understand it, that was his fault...
SUNSHINE SUPERMAN (Epic). The fellow the kids know as Donovan, who made his fame as a sort of Scottish Dylan ("You fill your glasses with the wine of murdered Negroes"), has forsaken protest for the pipes of a psychedelic Pied Piper, leading his myriad followers to a never-ever land of "velvet thrones" and "cascading crystals" via "trans-love airways." "I will bring you gold app-uls and grapes made of rubies" he chants, weaving a seamless tapestry of fairy tales with titles like Legend of a Girl Child Linda and The Fat Angel...
More important, however, is that Taylor is a giant among modern dance choreographers. In embracing such epic themes as God, man and nature in one work, he is treading a perilous course, yet he manages to sustain a unifying rhythm and pace. The choreography, with its wit and quirky, perky turns, its swirling patterns and exultant leaps, is boldly original...
Died. Heimito von Doderer, 70, Austria's most formidable novelist, whose widely praised The Demons, a 1,334-page epic 25 years in the writing of Vienna's whipped-cream and coffee-house society in the late 1920s, introduced him to the English-speaking world in 1961, after which two more (Every Man a Murderer, The Waterfalls of Slunj) of his many novels were translated into English, but neither so successfully; following abdominal surgery; in Vienna...
...rhetoric on the other side has the epic calm of sociological jargon. Partisans of compulsory national service look at their plan as a chance to sort, patch and mold human stock. Margaret Mead, the anthropologist, puts it this way: "Universal national service would make it possible to assay the defects and potentialities of every young American on the threshold of adulthood...