Word: epically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is an almost epic symbolism in the match of Procaccino against John Lindsay, who early in his four-year term was perhaps the most celebrated and promising mayor in the U.S. Tall, handsome, flat-bellied, articulate with tongue and pen, popular with academics, big businessmen and show people as well as students and black slum residents, Lindsay represents the aristocratic remnant in local politics. As the liberal Republican who broke the Democratic hold on New York City, he was once touted as a future opponent to Robert Kennedy for the presidency. Only 47, he may yet have a national...
...work done, despite their non-dramatic form. Pieces like On Sundays, The Gymnasts, and Have You Ever Thought of Talking to the Director ? are unified by the experiences of a central character, whom Baillie uses to explore oppressive physical realities. His basic themes reach their fullest elaboration in his epic films To Parsifal and Mass, and each succeeding work derives its direction and energy from these two productions. In Quixote. the last of his epics, a barbaric technology proves too overpowering, and the sheer visual weight of double and triple superimpositions overwhelms even the filmmaker...
Aboard the mammoth oil tanker S.S. Manhattan last week, latter-day explorers could relive the ordeals in the comfort of the ship's library. After traveling aboard the Manhattan on its epic journey, TIME'S Joe Rychetnik filed this story...
...occasion, Kosygin made it farther than the airport-he was received by Chairman Mao Tse-tung. Almost certainly, they then agreed on the need to increase aid to North Viet Nam, but no progress was evident on the settling of their feud. Since then, the feud has grown to epic proportions. Last March, just after a bitter, bloody Soviet-Chinese clash on the Ussuri River, Kosygin sought to telephone Peking's leaders. As Chinese Defense Minister Lin Piao later told the story, the Chinese replied coldly: "In view of the present relations between China and the Soviet Union...
...Those who wish may take this story as an epic of the Harvard freshman year...