Word: epically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...done in 1888, the year Van Gogh tried to start a community of artists in the yellow house at Aries. Gauguin was the only one who came. The two sold little, lived on brother Theo's charity, painted furiously and fought like tomcats. The experiment ended in the epic row during which Van Gogh sliced off one of his ears in a moment of manic depression. But not, said Amsterdam's experts, before the two wild geniuses had sat down together and painted the same...
Having helped draft the blueprint, Finley was anxious to prove it practical. He began an elementary humanities course covering Homer, Vergil, and Dante; this year, "The Epic and the Novel," divided between Finley and I. A. Richards, has one of the largest enrollments in the College...
Millions of U.S. moviegoers have seen the $6,500,000 epic Quo Vadis. In the 15 months since its release, the Technicolored spectacle of pagan Rome has become the third biggest grosser*-$10,500,000-in movie history...
Alfred's interest in poetry grew up alongside his religious education. While attending the Holy Innocents, he embarked on a fourteen page epic about Christ: "Since my experience was ended at twelve, I couldn't picture anyone older than twelve--so I had him commit suicide." Such is Alfred's marvelous compound of a serious scarch for answers in life and an equally acute eye for the comical. "I remember a bobby soxer walked into Briggs and Briggs one day and asked for Dylan Thomas' recording of all the useless Christmas presents he received." Alfred thrusts his upper teeth...
...slice of history. First published in German in 1938, it is the work of a Russian scholar with a flair for narrative. As it courses back & forth across Eurasia, following the fierce Mon gol horsemen, the book reads less like a scholar's chronicle than a majestic folk epic...