Word: saga
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, some 250.000 freshmen at colleges all over the U.S. had had a chance to read the saga of Ted; most campus COs apparently were convinced that Ted's primer-simple story was just what their freshmen would go for.* Without consulting with each other, Colonels Summerall and Stancisko had come to a contrary conclusion, left their stocks of Ted undistributed. Explained West Pointer Summerall last week: "You've got to consider the type of institution...
South Pacific (Majestic, 44th St. W. of B'way) is still a great hit, now starring Ray Middleton and Mary Martin. Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate, (Shubert, 44 W.) with Anne Jeffreys and Ted Scott, is still packing them in. The Saga of Lorelei Lee, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, (Ziegfeld, 54th St. and Sixth Ave.) continues with Carol Channing and Yvenne Adair in leading roles...
...taken as realistic reporting of Southern life, Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha saga makes little sense. It is based on his lifelong devotion to the Mississippi scene, but it is no mere copy of that scene. Rather it is a grotesque, symbolic version, in which the dimensions of reality are wildly distorted to make them more vivid. Sometimes, his writing seems almost like a prolonged hallucination-a hallucination crowded with extraordinary characters and violent actions. Moreover, for any Northerner to believe that Faulkner's world is limited to the South would be complacent provincialism. When Faulkner describes his Yoknapatawpha County...
...each of the state's 488,000 qualified Democratic voters, McMath mailed a gaudy, eight-page comic book relating the saga of 38-year-old Sid McMath. There was McMath the poor boy, born in a dogtrot cabin on an Arkansas farm; McMath the amateur boxer, and honor student at the state university; Major McMath the Marine Corps hero, with the Silver Star for bravery on Bougainville; McMath the racket-busting prosecutor who cleaned up gambling in Hot Springs; McMath the family loving governor...
...Stretch on the River is a slight and rambling saga and its humor runs largely to wisecracks, but it has a fine, easy familiarity with river life and describes its spell with casual, vernacular effectiveness. Though the book is no Huckleberry Finn, it has some of Mark Twain's own feeling for the rugged, easygoing river hands on the Mississippi...