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Lindeners were basically easygoing, but could become aroused over really important issues. The streetcar company's attempts to cut down a huge and historic linden tree on its right of way provoked an epic battle which cut through religious, political and even family lines. So did the argument as to whether the turn of the century came on Jan. 1, 1900 or Jan. 1, 1901. Another question that provoked a fist fight: Can salmon best be grilled over birch or willow coals...
...Million Needles. Moische was not any more attractive than the Europe that made him. He was dark and haggard, with sunken eyes, greasy hair and a limp. Yet Moische's story was a kind of 20th Century epic...
...Robert Oppenheimer '26, who played a significant part in the atomic bomb epic, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree...
Doubtless all this comes under the headings of Spectacle and Epic Drama, and loud and thunderous background music does nothing to detract from this conception. But to the less impressionable moviegoer it will probably seem little more than a glaring example of Hollywood gone hog-wild on the road to nowhere...
Mile Nicole Cartler-Bresson will lecture in English on "The Revival of Epic Poetry in France During World War II" this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in the Modern Language Center...