Word: epical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been more preoccupied with contrived presidential images than with actual looks. Some lofty thinkers even feel that the look of a President is of little significance. In reality, a leader's countenance and mien have always been of great moment to the led, and a President embodies an epic load of national symbolism. Externals have become ever more crucial since ubiquitous television has taken over as the main medium of campaigning. Today, as Daniel Boorstin notes in his book The Image, "our national politics has become a competition for images or between images, rather than between ideals...
...left to Ralph Ellison to develop the Afro-American in all of his indivisible and invisible wholeness. In the tradition of the classical epic of Western literature, an unnamed protagonist, neither naturalist demigod nor realist picaresque, sets out on a journey on which depends the future of his race or his nation. He sets out to achieve his identity in the most widely accepted tradition of Western literature: the journey. From the Odyssey to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, amidst the background of superhuman danger, virtue came in the struggle of the hero and his triumph over evil forces...
...lament is a well-intentioned reminder of our reluctance to honor our artists and thinkers. But the comparison is unfortunate. Twain was a humorist and satirist who was as much taken in by the Gilded Age as he was critical of it; Hugo was a lyric poet and epic novelist-and, what's more, a political hero. His exile was a symbol of opposition to tyranny...
...forever greening hopes of a new baseball season, and the warming sun can even stir confidence in the team that always seems to be chasing the New York Yankees, and always just falling short. Last year's collapse, blowing a 14-game lead, was of such epic proportions that it already is part of the game's lore, but the Sox insist, perhaps too strongly, that the past is dead. In his 19th major league spring, Carl Yastrzemski looks back on the year that got away and declares: "I forgot about it a couple of hours after...
Director Sellars and set designer Gary Lovesky have created a visually breathtaking production--they dragged 30 live birch trees from the Harvard Forest and ringed them around the spare, vast, white-draped stage. Huge birches and the bare exposed Loeb stage dwarf the actors and frame Sellar's epic interpretation. The Loeb production emphasizes the tableaux over the characters, but it does so with a brilliance in staging that brings out Chekhov's geometry and starkly, pictorially dramatizes the characters' relationship to each other. The operatic staging also serves to divorce the characters from the world outside the Prozorov mansion...