Word: epical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bear God help him. It seems certain that he is in for a spell of heavyweight reviewing, the kind of borborygmic reappraisal the critical community indulges in when it feels slightly ill and foolish after a gorge of overpraise. What was overpraised, of course, was Watership Down, a bunny epic greeted last year as if it were a cross between Moby-Dick and The Wind in the Willows. The excessive praise was a critical phenomenon that occurs every year or so when reviewers tire of the stinginess that honesty requires, and heap all of their withheld love on some more...
Clear-eyed, strong-jawed, supremely self-assured, Chiang Kai-shek (the name means "firm rock") was one of the century's major figures. As a revolutionary and ardent nationalist, he had an epic career embracing both triumph and tragedy. Sixty years of his life were consumed by bitter uphill struggles: first against the crumbling Manchu dynasty, then against the warlords who flourished in its ruins, next against invaders from imperial Japan and finally against the Communist peasant army that foreclosed his dream of dominance in China and chased him to an unhappy exile on Taiwan...
...epic fifth inning, the first Tufts batter Larsen faced, Mike Russo, tagged him for a single. The next batter, Steve Speroni, hit the ball back at Larsen who could not handle it letting him get to first. Berjutti sacrificed Russo to third and Speroni to second and outfielder Bob Norton was put out for the second...
...power of action, which may be greater than ours, less, or roughly the same." They theory of symbols works on the basic principle of "polysemous meaning" in works. The theory of myths expands on Frye's basic premise in Fearful Symmetry. And generic criticism (using terms like drama, epic. and lyric) explains works in the context of "conditions established between the poet and his public," how literary works "are ideally presented...
Safire concedes that "Nixon failed, not while daring greatly, but while lying meanly." Then he proceeds to place greater responsibility on H.R. Haldeman than on the President for the "epic arrogance" of a White House taping system that ultimately exposed the lies. Haldeman's lofty aim, contends Safire, was "to provide history with its raw material so as to ultimately serve the cause of truth, and prevent the denigration of a peacemaker." Incredibly, Safire insists that the "dark side" of Nixon shown on the tapes was not the real Nixon...