Word: epical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GENEROUS MAN, by Reynolds Price. The wild and wandering pursuit of an escaped python through a North Carolina pinewoods provides the epic setting for this perceptive, humorous novel of an adolescent boy's march into manhood...
MOZART: PIANO CONCERTOS VOL. 1 (3 LPs; Epic). The Hungarian-born Mozart specialist Lili Kraus plans to record all the piano concertos, Mozart's crowning achievements in instrumental music. She has begun with Nos. 12, 18, 20, 23, 24 and 26, all written after Mozart, renowned as Austria's greatest pianist, moved to Vienna. His playing was famed for its singing touch and exquisite taste. Eschewing broad contrasts and romantic rubato, Miss Kraus emulates the 18th century master...
...British Film Academy's annual awards ceremony. Smiling as Actor James Mason ticked off some of the winners in the lesser categories, she suddenly heard him intone: "Best Foreign Actress . . . Patricia Neal"-for her role as Admiral John Wayne's girl friend in the Pacific war epic In Harm's Way. Now weeping as well as smiling, Pat accepted the British "Oscar" and said: "It shouldn't have been me." The audience exuberantly disagreed...
...across Europe, The Actes and Monuments of the Latter Perilous Dayes was the work of John Foxe, an industrious Anglican divine who described two centuries of Protestant persecution in a colossal chronicle that ran to more than 4,000,000 words and was instantly recognized as the first great epic of Protestantism. For more than 300 years, Foxe's Book of Martyrs, as it was popularly called, sold almost as well as the Bible and exerted a strong formative influence on the Protestant ethos in England...
...Oscar. Even at its awful best, this mindless Joseph E. Levine epic will hardly win anything but booby prizes. One can easily imagine the scene next year at the famous ceremonies in Santa Monica: the pit orchestra bravely muddling through Percy Faith's flail-it-with-music themes from The Oscar while an Academy spokesman announces that all categories have been hastily revised to permit a few special awards. The probable Oscar winners...