Word: epically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...STORY OF LOWRY MAEX-Padraic Colum-Macmillan ($1.90). Epic broth from the marrowless bones of prehistoric Irish people (transition from Bronze to Iron Age). Harmless, charming, faint...
...Bach to De Falla. And that evening the State Symphony Orchestra features Tschaikowsky's Second Symphony in another Sanders Theatre concert. The reaction to a first hearing of this group tends to be surprisingly pleasant, and an added point of interest this week will be the world premiere of "Epic Poem" by a Harvard graduate, Arthur Korb '30. Alexander Thiede will conduct...
Laid in the thumb-shaped spur of rocky land that juts down from the county of Mayo along the west coast of Ireland, and with this period as background, Famine just fails of being the epic of struggle and suffering its author unquestionably designed it to be. But for readers strong-stomached enough to endure an unrelenting account of human misery. Famine is a powerful and at times wildly moving novel...
Last week, P.A.A. announced that Section Superintendent George Waldo Bicknell, book-browsing in Honolulu, had solved the mystery of Wake's anchor and uncovered a sea story as epic as the voyage of Captain Bligh of the Bounty. As builder and first airport manager at Wake, Colonel Bicknell discovered the anchor imbedded upright in the coral reef mile-and-a-half down the beach, moved it to its present position. A partially obliterated date and three letters at the tail end of a word were its only markings. When he was transferred to Honolulu he continued his quest...
...epic novelist, certainly no apologist for the rich, Harvey O'Connor tells most of the Guggenheim saga in an objective, critically-cool prose. But occasionally readers may detect a slightly flabbergasted note of left-wing awe as he recounts how the seven sons of Jewish immigrant Meyer Guggenheim of Philadelphia made the family the second or third richest in the U. S., comparable in the scope of its clannish money-making only to the Rothschilds. Starting in 1847 as a pack peddler of household knickknacks along the muddy roads outside Philadelphia, vigorous, good-humored Meyer Guggenheim acquired a peddler...