Word: saga
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nine Lives. The World War II saga of Jan Baalsrud, a Norwegian who spent more than a month in open snow escaping the Nazis, is related with reverence, intelligence and clear subtitles...
...girl, who once earned the nickname "Antelope" because of her bouncy, athletic ways, she was valedictorian of her class and president of the students' committee at Tokyo's University of the Sacred Heart (though she is not a Roman Catholic). She wrote her thesis on The Forsyte Saga, insisted on typing every one of the 100 pages herself rather than spend any of her meager ($2.78 a month) allowance on a typist. As recently as last summer, she wrote her mother: "I do not believe commoners should be united with the imperial family...
...wives, two mistresses. It is part of Alfred Eaton's tragedy that he cannot unravel these possessions in time to find himself. It is part of Author O'Hara's semifailure in his most ambitiously conceived novel that the embalmers art which he brings to this saga often gives Alfred Eaton only a bloodless reality, a kind of rouge to live...
...were safely in the air, bound for Newfoundland and home. The expert SAC crews who had participated in the rescue got a reward of Distinguished Flying Crosses and Air Medals, and the 20-man Ice Skate team came away with precious logbooks and a deserving niche in the saga of exploration. And behind them, still floating, was the disintegrating chip that remained of Ice Skate-a symbol of the mysterious mountains that crumble year after year before the determination of courageous...
...tragedy of the Thirties is an enduring one in American life. The story of their literary spokesman, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and his decline is one of the most symbolic themes around which to tell the tale of two decades. As much as any individual experience in modern life, the saga of F. Scott Fitzgerald is a fit subject for tragedy...