Word: epical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Schumann: The Four Symphonies and The Piano Concerto (Leon Fleisher, pianist; the Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell conducting; Epic, 4 LPs). Szell's readings are blazing or majestic as the occasion demands, and they may even temporarily lay to rest the old debate about whether Schumann knew how to write for any instrument other than the piano...
Mullin will hook up with Bobby Mack of Yale in a repeat of last week's epic mile battle, which resulted in a 4:07.1 victory for the Crimson junior. Varsity coach Bill McCurdy could juggle the form chart by sending Mullin back into the 880 against Carroll. Mullin just might outrace the sore-legged Bulldog...
Wonderful Flummery. Now, on the anniversary of the first shot in The War Between the States, G.W.T.W. has once more gone into crash release in 200 major theaters across the U.S. To judge from the block-long ticket lines and the weeping, cheering customers, Selznick's epic will make more money this time around than it ever has before. But surely the old warhorse has been spavined by time and enfeebled by continual exposure? Not at all. G.W.T.W. is as great a show today as it was 20 years ago, a magnificent piece of popular entertainment, undoubtedly the greatest...
...Cathar Nelli explains the growing interest in the medieval heresy: "First the continued retreat of Roman Catholicism. Rome fails to answer people's questions. Secondly, the crusade's sites are admittedly picturesque, and the drama has an appealing epic character. Finally, we are living in a period of darkness, anguish, desperateness, wars, massacres, torture, atomic bombs. Isn't science itself satanic? People will talk about Catharism more and more unless we enter a period of 50 years of peace and prosperity. And that isn't likely...
This should reassure the suspicious modern that Homer's epic is not a supernatural swindle but the narrative of a man in trouble-the "first novel," as one translator put it-and that Fitzgerald's English version is in the crisp demotic argot of today. The new translation, however, does not skip or try to improve on the few familiar Homeric cliches: the sea is still "wine-dark" or "fish-cold"; the dawn is still "rosy-fingered...