Word: epical
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...NATIONAL TRAUMA. Well, the fracture in our society widened. It's still there--that crack still goes down the middle of it. You could call the war a trauma. It was, of course. But it had an epic quality to it. It was more than a trauma, really. Sherman's march was not only a devastating military campaign, it was like a great scythe that cut down and uprooted an entire culture. By creating thousands of refugees, black and white, who attached themselves to the march, it became another reality, another state of being. A floating world. Everything was reversed...
...times it strains to represent every aspect of late 20th century Italy in one family (a Red Brigades radical is told to kill a prominent attorney, who is--her brother-in-law!). But that happens in novels, and this is a picto-fiction that truly deserves the word epic...
...Crammed with myriad ideas that each would have made for a perfectly decent Blur song, the track barrels along, picking up so much momentum that it eventually crashes to a halt, only to lurch back up to speed again. Despite its four-minute runtime, it feels epic...
...hope had been crushed by the overhand smash of Presidential indifference,” a miracle happened—Summers agreed to play. Apparently running a drawing of the pudgy president being pelted by tennis balls and cruelly disparaging captions for five weeks worked wonders. In the epic match-up, Summers and his doubles partner, former FM co-chair Ben C. Wasserstein ’03, came back from behind to school their uppity challengers, FM co-chair Ben D. Mathis-Lilley ’03 and FM publisher Kenyon S. Weaver ’03. October...
...might complain that the pace lends itself to superficiality. But though the novel may not match Malcolm’s epic ambitions—at times the plot is forced and the loose ends tied too neatly—its shortcomings do little damage to the readability of the novel...