Word: epical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Jules Remains, 86, French epic novelist, dramatist and poet and founder of the philosophy of unanimism; in Paris. Though his massive output since the turn of the century included successful plays, philosophical essays and mildly erotic fiction, Romains' masterwork was his 27-volume historical novel, Les Hommes de Bonne Volonte (Men of Goodwill). Fifteen years in the writing, with a cast of over 400 characters, the work embodies Remains' unanimist philosophy that man can only be fully defined in the context of the religious, familial and social groups to which he belongs. After completing the final volumes...
Whether studying undernourished children in South Carolina or inspecting the epic rich-poor contrasts of Texas cities, Coles sticks to the tangible. He confronts Southern paradoxes - sad ness and willfulness, resignation and re sourcefulness - and stubbornly refuses to resolve them...
...band went separate ways. Stills and Young went on to sometime solo careers. Furay and Messina formed Poco, to get a little closer to the country than they could with the folkrockers. Poco, after a very slow start, in which every copy of their first album for Epic was badly pressed went on to be the complete success that Stills and Young together couldn't match. (Stills's solo has lapsed into self- indulgence, and I never could stand Neil Young's voice or his electric guitar playing...
Worst of all seem to be the frogs. Before he produced the epic named after the species, George Edwards had a kind of frog fetish; even the door knocker on his studio bungalow was shaped like one. Now that he has got to know 2,000 of them, he says: "I hate them. They're cold, slimy, and they pee all over you." Ray Milland knew he disliked them from the beginning. "I'm not touching one damned frog," he told Edwards, who got a stand-in for the death scene...
...American, has ever advanced to the finals. Never, that is, until now, and the resulting excitement among the estimated 60 million chess players round the world?and millions of others who do not know a double fianchetto from a double play?is of the kind usually reserved for an epic heavyweight championship fight...