Word: epical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After Grandine's final lecture in his epic course two years ago, the hall rose to an emotional standing ovation. Grandine modestly exited through the back, but his students continued applauding for minutes to the empty podium. We add our hands to that tribute...
JONATHAN GRANDINE'S death last Friday at the age of 33 deprived the University of a thoughtful scholar and students of a dynamic teacher. In the years before his illness Grandine taught both Shakespeare and epic poetry with a quiet intensity, able with acumen and dry with to expose the heart of the most difficult works. His lectures were models of directed intelligence; as he led students through Virgil, Spenser, Milton and Blake, he avoided the twin perils of near-sighted textual analysis and bland generality, and presented the poets as men whose ideas could instruct us or help...
Ronan sees an epic struggle ahead. "Yale is always a good race, and their boat has been improving lately. We weren't together as much as we wanted...
...became an assistant professor in the English Department, developing a course on "Epic Poetry from the Renaissance to the Romantics," and teaching other courses...
...latest epic by Robert Ludlum (The Matarese Circle) manages to top, if not topple, Carlos. The central character of his The Bourne Identity (Marek; 523 pages; $12.95) is an amnesiac, the result of a botched attempt on his life. From a microphotograph surgically implanted in his body, he finds the address of a bank in Zurich, an account that yields him more than $5 million, and a name: Jason Charles Bourne. As bloody memories and deadly skills return, Bourne discovers that he is a trained and instinctive killer, code-named Cain, quite possibly the match of Carlos...