Word: epical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...specialized throughout the last two hundred and fifty years, and especially during the twentieth century. We face even more directly the problem that was widely discussed throughout the fifty years before Keats was born and also throughout his lifetime: where are the Homers and Shakespeares, the 'greater genres'--the epic and dramatic tragedy--or at least reasonable equivalents...
...history, his finances, the effect of the Endymion reviews--with an informed common sense that never collapses into pedantry. Even his analyses of the poetry, although rigorously technical, provoke the most inattentive reader to a new understanding of the great Odes (particularly the "Ode to a Nightingale") and the epic fragments...
...epic in scope as the Army itself. It includes chapters on Military Science, Individual Interests, The Soldier's Code, and Army History and Organization. The anonymous author underestimates himself when he advises his readers merely to "use this book somewhat as a dyed-in-the-wool baseball fan uses his official baseball guide--to look up facts and broaden your information on specific subjects...
Scheduled to go before the cameras soon is a Frank Sinatra Enterprises epic obligingly titled (in return for a Pepsi-Cola national publicity plug) For Those Who Think Young. The stars are Sinatra and Martin-not Frankie and Dean, oddly, but a pair called Nancy and Claudia. Nancy is 23, Claudia 19, and the very thought of their names in lights makes the whole Clan feel...
...Gathering of Eagles. The Strategic Air Command is magnificent matter for an epic film, for a Lawrence of the wild blue yonder. But the only previous picture on the subject, 1955's Strategic Air Command, was just a big, slick, did-you-ever-see-such-a-crazy-tractor romance in which Jimmy Stewart fell in love with a $3,000,000 airplane and took off for Cloud Nine. Now Hollywood has, in effect, remade the movie with glittering new hardware (B-52s instead of B-47s) and a dull old theme: "Will SACcess spoil Rock Hudson?" Rock...