Word: saga
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...saga of your soul at grips with fate, bleedingheart, for we have troubles...
Properly impressed by the dramatic fact that people who were children in 1903 had barely reached middle age by the time Franco's bombers were pounding Barcelona, Director Wellman, who helped concoct his own story, tried to reflect the whole bright saga of flying through the prism of a conventional triangle plot. When Pat Falconer, Scott Barnes and Peggy Ranson are moppets, sailing kites in imitation of the airship Peggy's inventor father is trying to rig up in his workshop, the device succeeds brilliantly. By the time the children have grown up into Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland...
Language and Literature: Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Lucian, the Old Testament, Horace, Ovid, Livy, Virgil, the New Testament, Quintilian, Dante, Volsunga Saga, the Song of Roland, Chaucer, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Milton, Rabelais, Corneille, Racine, Molière, Erasmus., Montaigne, Montesquieu, Grotius...
...voted the most popular by the public, but banned on the island. On sale in the U. S., its words are allegedly unprintable, and at all but a few points effectively inaudible, or in Caribbean patois. But verbal understanding is not necessary to convince hearers that it is a saga of a rollicking Trinidad wench...
Next to himself, a novelist's favorite subject is his family history. It is also a subject demanding exceptional talent. Thus, although family novels are among the most plentiful, a really good one-a Buddenbrooks or a Forsyte Saga-is rare. Run-of-the-mine family novels are likely to hold more interest for fellow members of the family than for strangers -a fault which is sometimes due to the fact that the family is dull, more often due to a writer's family discretion...