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Word: epics (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard University, the oldest educational establishment in the most technologically advanced civilization in the history of the world, does not lightly choose topics for the attention of its scholars. Only after a third of a millenium of deliberation does a subject matter such as "Humanities 2. Epic and Drama" receive and official bow and become worthy of Harvard University...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: Big 38 Get Harvard Nod | 10/5/1964 | See Source »

...Exam Group XII is English 70, a popular tour of American literature conducted this term by Alan Heimert. Elsewhere in the English Department Walter Jackson Bate illuminates the "Function and Criticism of Literature" in English 192, and scads of undergrads submit to the spell of John Finley's epic oratory in Hum 2. Universalists must choose between Merle Fainsod's treatment of Soviet Dictatorship in Government' 115 and the "Principles of Ecology" studied in Biology 143; the undecided settle on Iranian 175, "the Culture of Ancient Iran." Scientists delve into Geology 271a, "Mining Geology," or aspire to astronomical techniques...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Coursegoer: T. Th. (S.) | 9/29/1964 | See Source »

THAT MAN FROM RIO. Jean-Paul Belmondo dodges poisoned darts and mad scientists in Philippe de Broca's (The Five-Day Lover) wildly hilarious parody of Hollywood's next-earthquake-please epic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 25, 1964 | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

Because the conservative sponsors of the New York festival offer no prizes, horse trading and razzmatazz are minimal. Opening night was a sober, even stately occasion, geared to the Slavic measures of Hamlet, Soviet Director Kozintsev's 21-hour epic in collaboration with Pasternak, Shostakovich and Shakespeare. Some viewers were enthralled, some appalled by the brooding, glacial, quasi-operatic doings at Elsinore, which at times seemed haunted by the ghost of Boris Godunov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Festival in New York | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

...dainty Amalienburg palace, plaster tendrils so slather the rooms that the ceiling is inseparable from the walls. Rococo was ornament become form, rather than the link between forms. It added asymmetry to the earlier style of baroque art, as one would add fantasy to fiction. Where the baroque was epic, rococo was lyric. It had a horror of straight lines, as if such were the symbols of reason and order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Styles: The Curve of the Sea Shell | 9/11/1964 | See Source »

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