Word: epics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...movies like A Place in the Sun and The Diary of Anne Frank. He is now risking it by betting that he can tell The Greatest Story Ever Told with such superior skill that audiences will quickly forget all the incense and nonsense of the traditional Hollywood Biblical epic...
...major faults are Porter's; if Ninotchka was a successful spoof of the Russians 25 years ago, a lot of its crude anti-Soviet humor (reference is made to an epic "Ode to a Tractor") is only crude today. Someone made an odd choice in selecting Silk Stockings, and perhaps they've done as well by it as anyone could. But the charm of this year's Drumbeats show is all Pat Fay's--and the excitement of the production is in its color and gaiety, not in any substance...
...monks of Ladakh devoted themselves to writing an "immortal epic" of India's fight against Chinese aggression. A temple in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh converted its 85-lb. gold treasury into 15-year defense bonds, while New Delhi bank clerks shined shoes outside a restaurant after hours and gave their earnings to the government, men jammed the enlistment centers and showered Nehru with pledges to fight signed in blood...
...more improbable of these critical assumptions make Salinger the fictional counterpart of David Riesman assessing American society. Others claim he is writing an American epic. And the procession goes on, in almost unlimited diversity...
Humanities 2, Epic and Drama, moved into second place this fall with an enrollment of 695. The course replaces Humanities 5--which this year dropped to fifth--as the most popular Hum course...