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...plan and scope of this book are magnificent. It is a vast epic of common American life, beginning before the landing of the Pilgrims; an attempt to state the meaning of what has come to be known as the American Dream. The first book is the story of Plymouth; the second is laid during the Revolution; the third, and most interesting, begins in 1825 and continues through the Civil...
...attempt to fulfill the epic sweep that Remembrance Rock fails. To a considerable extent it fails because of it -the grandiloquent language, the heroic characters, the poetic prose that on re-examination turns out to be well-nigh meaningless. Its failure is so complete in this respect that it may be that Sandburg's greatest service to American literature will be to have ended this sort of imaginative effort-"the great American novel"-once...
...that part of the trouble is in the feeling that the attempt should be made. Lincoln did not start out to write a statement of democratic faith in the Gettysburg Address, but to dedicate a graveyard. The American epic, if it is ever written, may have as unpretentious an origin...
Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida" will be the first college production to appear in the refurbished Brattle Theater. The Harvard Theater Workshop, ten of whose members jointly own the Brattle st. structure, has chosen this epic of the Trojan war for their initial play...
...blast against Ottawa's treatment of De Bernonville. "A crying injustice," charged Houde. Gustave Jobi-don, a Quebec City notary, cabled to ex-French Premier Robert Schuman: "French Canada is scandalized . . . Vive Pétain. Vive De Bernonville." Other Parti Canadien backers called De Bernonville "a hero of epic and legendary stature...