Word: epically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pasture airport on Long Island, a few miles from the take-off point of his epic transatlantic flight in 1927, Air Force Brigadier General Charles A. Lindbergh, 53, chatted with Producer Leland Hayward about scenes to be filmed there for the movie version of Lindbergh's bestselling, Pulitzer-Prizewinning autobiography, The Spirit of St. Louis. Parked before them was a nostalgic replica of The Spirit itself (the original plane is enshrined in Washington's Smithsonian Institution). The film's Lindbergh will be played by lone-eaglish Cinemactor James (Strategic Air Command) Stewart, himself an Air Force Reserve...
...Cook and the South Pacific. A three-year circumnavigation of the globe (1768-71), Cook's voyage added Australia, New Zealand and a number of South Pacific isles to the then known world. Narrated by Author Gwyther with seadog relish, authority and profound professional admiration, Cook's epic journeyings have the fascination of an Odyssey from Yorkshire...
...peak of his powers. Janacek used the Dostoevsky work as the basis of a three-act opera. It had one of its rare performances last summer at the Holland Festival, where it was recorded by Phillips, and last week Aus Einem Totenhaus was released in the U.S. on two Epic...
...forget the insults to her family . . . But this comparison is ambiguous: to mock westerns by evoking Corneille is also to point out their grandeur, a grandeur perhaps close to puerility, even as childhood is close to poetry . . . Everyone, children and simple men, recognizes the naive grandeur of western movies. Epic and tragic heroes are universal . . . The trek west is our Odyssey...
Accepted Symbol. "On a less dramatic level," says Les Temps Modernes, "one liked the personality of Shane, that nostalgic outlaw of a Racine-like modesty, who troubled for a moment the wife of a farmer . . . The search for the everyday, true incident is hard to reconcile with the epic violence of the westerns, and here again there has been a radical change: the superman has been superseded by a 'new type' of cowboy, who hesitates, who suffers and who is afraid." Examples: The Ox-Bow Incident, Gun fighters, The Treasure of Sierra Madre...