Word: epics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...epic force" with which he plumbed "the depths of the tortured South Slavic soul," Yugoslavia's Ivo Andric, 69, won the Nobel Prize for literature. The second author-diplomat tapped in two years (1960 recipient: French Poet St. John Perse) and the first of his countrymen ever honored by the Swedish Academy, the unassuming, owlish-looking Serb was Yugoslav minister to Berlin when the Nazis invaded his country in 1941. Abandoning public life, he settled down to write a sweeping Bosnian trilogy, completed The Bridge on the Drina, a history-haunted hymn to his native land, while...
...contracted an uncontrollable social itch in Depression days and sought to alleviate it with humanitarian but haphazard plans for economic reform; after a long heart ailment; in San Francisco. The son of a Civil War colonel, Downey started out as a Republican in Wyoming, migrated to Sacramento and the EPIC (End Poverty in California) movement of Author-Crusader Upton Sinclair, then as a regular Democrat supported Dr. Francis Townsend's scheme for old-age pensions and the "$30 Every Thursday" campaign...
...have a hunch that my former roommate, after reading this epic on himself, must have exclaimed loud and clear...
...impossible hour, admittedly, but not devoid of its virtues: H.M. Jones is offering what is probably the last year of his epic Hum 133a (Thought and Literature in the Nineteenth Century) which marshals, among others. Pere Goriot, Wuthering Heights, Sartor Resartus, Bleak House, Faust, and The Red and the Black into a tidy and orderly cultural unity. Professor Myron Gilmore, the hour's other virtue, presents three disunited centuries (roughly, 1300-1600) in an even stiffer course, his History 130: "The Age of the Renaissance and Reformation." Devious Machiavelli and the sainted Thomas More top the reading list...
...Good Bad Boys. A generation or two of high school and college students, particularly those who have at least a sneering acquaintance with the Ivy League, still see in Catcher their hymn, their epic, their Treasury of Humor, and their manifesto against the world. A decade after first publication, the book still sells 250,000 copies a year in the U.S. Sociologist David Riesman assigns Catcher in his Harvard course on Character and Social Structure in the U.S., perhaps because every campus has its lonely crowd of imitation Holdens?doomed wearers of raincoats-in-December, who rehearse faithfully their Caulfield...