Word: epically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coke on the Kiosks Sir: Cheers for that tasty epic, "The Pause That Arouses" [TIME, March 13]. At least five Frenchmen can laugh down the squeaks of those Moscow-suckled shoats against "Bottled American Imperialism." Coca-Cola won their approval on its own grounds! GUY DESSAULLES Pans, France...
...General Education course in Great English Authors. GE likes to cross departmental lines, and it likes to get something it calls Scope into its courses. A course in English authors is a setup for GE; it could be presented in the same way that GE has successfully presented the epic and novel. Such a course would satisfy the demands of non-concentrators for a basic English course, and it would give them a better background than the literary almanac which is English...
...Communist." According to Breunig, Emmanuel is a serious, tense, individual, completely wrapped up in his literary work. "Above all, he is an artist," the professor reports. "He seemed a man predisposed to like America," Breunig goes on. "He praised America and the spots he had visited... (He resembles) the epic nature of Victor Hugo... (is) quite sure of his own importance, not modest, but not unpleasant...
...Jima's greatest asset is leathery, lithe John Wayne. His relaxed acting of a sleepy-eyed, two-fisted he-man (6 ft. 4 in.) has made him a pillar of credibility in many an unlikely blood & thunder epic. Broken in like a good saddle, in 150 pictures over 20 years, his coarse-grained appeal has finally won 42-year-old Actor Wayne a place (according to Showmen's Trade Review) second only to Bob Hope among the U.S. box office's favorite male stars...
Kaye fans are bound to see this movie anyway. Others who want relaxation will do all right if they don't get their hopes up for a comedy epic...