Word: epical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SPACE ODYSSEY. In the context of the most recent space achievements, Stanley Kubrick's epic film deserves another look. Combining machinery and metaphysics in his tale of a voyage to Jupiter, Kubrick creates a stunning cosmic morality play to which the flight of Apollo 11 adds a tantalizing immediacy...
...full impact of the event will not be felt for some time to come, perhaps years. Much as the Wright brothers' first flight and Lindbergh's epic changed forever the environment of man on earth, so will the moon landing change forever man's dependence upon his own earth for survival. The cosmos is his. Its vastness, which holds all the answers to life and death, is but now space to be transited in this effort...
...epic / tragedy / comedy / pastoral / lyric in the flood days of sad stories...
wrote the epic of the spy ship...
WHEREVER people could read, watch or hear the news, they followed the epic journey of Apollo 11 with fascination. Most Americans were jubilant, if sometimes at a loss for words. An elderly lady awaiting a flight at Chicago's O'Hare Airport simply stood up and sang America the Beautiful when she learned that the moon landing had succeeded. Said Robert Hutchins, the usually articulate head of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara: "It's marvelous. What else can you say?" Author Paul Goodman, a frequent critic of U.S. institutions, wrote...