But these three young thinkers -- Ms. Singh is from Queens, Mr. Gordon from South Brunswick, N.J., and Mr. Brown from Denver -- ask epic questions.
Not one to shrink from epic questions, Mr Ferguson, a British historian, has written a dazzling history of Western ideas that sets out to provide the reader with epic answers.
As ever, our hero Sparky Sweets, PhD gets down to the epic questions in his summation of the classic horror novel: "Are we inherently good or evil?
The cornucopian epic in question can be found at Broadway's Winter Garden, where the Royal Shakespeare Company's impressively adventurous production of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall has set up shop for fifteen weeks.
More than anything else, "Henry V" is a historical epic, posing questions of faith and morals and exploring the subject of leadership.
Le Guin's peculiar gift, though, is to make the ordinary feel as important as the epic: mundane questions about who's cutting firewood or doing the dishes share space with rune books and miscast spells.
But it is some consolation that Hawking's final paper has now been published on the preprint journal ArXiv, demonstrating that even during his last days, he was still pursuing the epic cosmic questions that defined his career.
The NBC mini-series "Jason and the Argonauts," like any good epic, has profound questions at its heart.
Make your presence in class epic by answering questions, arguing with the prof, and making your presence known.
