Word: epical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Level XV (9834 B.C.), Makor was a six-family settlement of happy hunters dwelling in a cozy cave and rejoicing in their primal innocence. Ur, the twinkle-eyed patriarch, romped with the kiddies, celebrated his hunting prowess in ecstatic bursts of epic poetry. But Mrs. Ur wanted a better way of life, moved the family into a nice new house down near the well, got everybody started on farming, free enterprise, philosophy, house building, domestication of the wild dog, sickle manufacturing, and the long agony of getting along with God. All in the space of three years...
...this revealing readable book, the most densely detailed study of Dreiser yet to be published, Biographer W. A. Swanberg (Citizen Hearst) establishes beyond dispute that Dreiser's life was as grand and sorrowful an epic as anything he ever wrote...
...responsibility than Zimet's. Jarry was a Frenchman who lived in a garret with two owls and a stone phallus around the turn of the century. He took a schoolboy satire of a fat stupid professor and turned it into Ubu Roi. It's a forerunner of nearly everything: epic theatre, theatre of the absurd, Bullwinkle and the Filthy Speech Movement. You can't cram that much into a play without its getting overstuffed...
...Epic Poetry...
...only substitute for the conventional "signals" graduate schools need to evaluate applicants is a personalized letter for each course, according to Monro. "We just don't have the personnel to write 900 epic poems...