Word: epically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the early months of 1953, life will be lively on Capitol Hill, but no epic struggles are in prospect. Predicted Massachusetts' Joe Martin, who will be Speaker of the House: "I think there'll be very close liaison between the President and the Congress...
...raft from Las Palmas in the Canary Islands in mid-October. Since then, he had lived solely on food and drink gathered at sea: fish, sea birds, barnacles, plankton (minute animal and vegetable life floating at the surface), sea water, rain and dew. He had endured his epic voyage, he said, to prove his theory that victims of shipwreck can survive at sea indefinitely if they have the necessary knowledge and equipment, and do not fall into panic or despair...
...these are enough to make his fame. His greatest work, a tremendous altarpiece of nine paintings which now stands in the museum at Colmar, Alsace, contains a magnificent painting of the Crucifixion. A mystic with a realist's sense of physical suffering, Griinewald made the Crucifixion an epic of wounds and pain seldom, if ever, matched on canvas...
...popular appeal, Benét's eloquent chronicle of the Civil War has more to offer than Shaw's dazzling moral debate. It tells an epic, yet hallowed and human story; it treats of divided lovers as well as a divided land. Though not the work of such a great master of stage dialogue as Shaw, the poem pretty well lends itself to stage use, has touching moments, fluid movement, big climaxes. It has also, on the whole, been well condensed...
...most interesting new U.S. novelist was a 38-year-old Negro, Ralph Ellison. His Invisible Man was the picaresque epic of a Southern Negro trying to find a place in a white man's world. Not always in focus, its flair and vitality nevertheless made it one of the year's standouts. From another world was Louis Kronenberger's witty verbal quadrille, Grand Right and Left, about a bored billionaire who collects people instead of butterflies...