Word: epics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SPACE ODYSSEY. Man's first step on the moon lends new immediacy to Stanley Kubrick's epic film about a voyage to Jupiter that assumes awesome metaphysical consequences. Kubrick is one of the best American film makers, and 2001 may be his masterpiece...
TRUONG CHINH, the leading theoretician. Chinh, Chairman of Hanoi's National Assembly, is as openly pro-Peking as any leader can be in a traditionally anti-Chinese country. He has provided his own political label: his adopted name means "Long March," after Mao Tse-tung's epic 7,000-mile trek to sanctuary in Yenan in 1934. Chinh may be too far out on Peking's political limb to head up Hanoi's middle-of-the-road leadership. Moreover, he has been at odds with both Le Duan and General Giap. With Ho gone...
France is much in thrall to its own version of the heroic past. Accordingly, Gramont invokes, analyzes and denigrates Jules Michelet, the great French Romantic historian whose writings helped to "create" France's epic past. When Gramont describes French intellectual life, he gives a useful though jaundiced look at Descartes, including his life and times, his seminal Discours de la Méthode and the Freudian analysis of the philosopher's three dreams, which symbolized the difficulty of understanding the universe...
Died. Lou Stillman, 82, tough-talking, cigar-chewing patriarch of Stillman's Gym, for 38 years a monument to the prizefight game; in Santa Barbara, Calif. With an epic command of abusive language and a pistol in his pocket, Stillman presided from 1921 to 1959 over the gloomy New York City arena where Jack Dempsey, Georges Carpentier and Primo Camera-among thousands of others-worked out during their careers. "Big or small, champ or bum," he said, "I treated 'em all alike -bad. If you treat 'em like humans, they'll eat you alive...
...SPACE ODYSSEY. In the context of recent achievements, Stanley Kubrick's epic film deserves another look. Combining machinery and metaphysics in his tale of a voyage to Jupiter, Kubrick creates a cosmic morality play to which the flight of Apollo 11 adds a tantalizing immediacy...