Word: epics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clubs? A job for 007? Quite. Sofia Author Andrei Gulyashki, 51, celebrated behind the Iron Curtain as Communism's answer to Ian Fleming, was in London to do a little spying on "James Bond's town" and gather background for his new counterespionage epic, Avvakum Zakhov Meets James Bond. Chunky Gulyashki made it no secret that Communist Superagent Zakhov, armed mainly with "strict logic and a superior mind," will try to defeat the capitalist lout in a "struggle to create a society of free and dignified people...
...Epic Feuds. For the customer who failed to appreciate his fare, Soule reserved an icy stare. To the diner who bickered over the check he delivered his ultimate gesture of contempt: puffing himself up to his full height (5 ft. 5 in.), he would rip up the check and say, "Good night. You have been guests of Le Pavilion...
...Ailing Mike Quill, the invective-hurling president of the Transport Workers Union, probably made his Last Hurrah. Faced with division and opposition within his own union, he seemed to hunger for a final epic fight, openly sought imprisonment. "He wanted to go to jail," A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany noted with a wry jab, "and I wouldn't do anything to take away from his happiness." At week's end Quill was released from Bellevue Hospital and entered a private hospital, a sad and feckless parody of the youth who fought in the Irish rebellion. Worse still...
...Deutsche Oper has performed Schoenberg's three-hour epic 45 times in six European cities, which makes it one of the most frequently performed of all modern operas. This April -though the staid burghers may not be ready for an orgy scene-the enterprising Boston Opera will give Moses and Aaron its long overdue U.S. premi...
...Cold Blood is a minor national epic, illuminating many affecting portraits--allowing to share young Nancy Clutter's poignant diary: "Summer here. Forever I hope"; to witness the shock of her boyfriend's agony, by which an adolescent learns adult numbness; to be harassed by the posturing gruffness of Holcomb's postmistress: ". . . the sane thing to do is to shut up. You live until you die and it doesn't matter how you go--dead's dead": to appreciate Mr. Clutter's Midwest-pastoral dream: "an apple-scented Eden"; to wince before the senior Hickock's A History...