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...down with her. Far away in the Welsh mountains, 31-year-old Gerard Manley Hopkins, a Jesuit novice, was shocked by the catastrophe into writing his first poem in seven years. He sent The Wreck of the Deutschland to his young friend, Poet Robert Bridges, who carefully pasted the epic into an album. There it remained for 40 years, until publication of Hopkins' collected works brought the long-dead Jesuit acclaim as one of the most remarkable poets...
...almost anything in the way of self-destruction from Japanese soldiers. They have read the story, in Japanese newspapers, of the "dauntless courage of Captain Yamazaki"-in the seventh paragraph it is revealed that Captain Yamazaki's courage consisted in destroying himself. But none were prepared for this epic self-slaughter among civilians. More than one U.S. fighting man was killed trying to rescue a Jap from his wanton suicide...
Miss MacDonald first came to Harvard in January, 1902, a bright girl of 20 who was hired as executive secretary to the Committee. Her career was an unbroken epic of service for three Admissions Directors, John G. Hart '93, Henry Penny packer '88, and Richard M. Gummere '07, present Director, under whom she attained the rank of Administrative Assistant...
...picture's chief fault is that the Hollywooden heads, in attempting to produce a "best-seller," have turned a simple, true story into a lurid piece of sensationalism. Instead of the inspiring epic recited by President Roosevelt in his famous 1942 radio address, one sees a movie distinguished by its attempts to turn Dr. Wassell into a Lou Gehrig or a Sergeant York...
...masterpiece. It is a masterpiece in the way that Tolstoy's novels are, rather than Shakespeare's plays-i.e., it is deliberate, sustained, careful (often tiresomely so), rather than spontaneous and overflowing with its own imaginative energy. The final volume's 606 pages bring the epic of Joseph to its end (Bible version, 21 pages; Mann's version, 2,005 pages). Few readers will want to know all of Mann's retelling of the story, the resuscitation of Egyptian and Hebrew thought and customs with which he surrounds it, the lessons for the modern...