Word: aeolus
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...hero no longer creaks under the virtues attributed to him by centuries of interpreters. He is a man doomed to greatness, compelled to propitiate and suffer the capricious gods. Juno brings on the ruin of Troy and the deaths of many of Aeneas' loved ones, then persuades Aeolus, ruler of the winds, to blow up a storm that disperses Aeneas' escaping fleet. He comforts his drenched, surviving companions with words he does not believe: "So ran the speech. Burdened and sick at heart,/ He feigned hope in his look, and inwardly/ Contained his anguish...
...tones of American authors cannot hold a vowel to the loquacious Irish. In 1924 Sylvia Beach, owner of the famous Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris, took James Joyce to the studio of "His Master's Voice" to record the Aeolus episode of Ulysses. Although extremely nervous, Joyce delivered an impassioned reading. The result was a disappointment: the poor quality of the master disc overpowers the author. Later in England, Joyce read the Anna Livia Plurabelle section of Finnegans Wake with much better equipment. His eyesight failing, he read from a huge typescript, although he must have known...
Dougie can lift us up with the propane burner or let the hot air escape through a vent to ease us down, but our horizontal movement is entirely dependent upon the vagaries of Aeolus. "That is part of ballooning's magic," says Dougie. "You never know what your destination will be. Your fate is in the winds...
...aeolian harp dates back to Greek mythology. It was a box-shaped musical instrument with stretched strings through which Aeolus, the god of wind, blew dulcet tones...
Other nations were more generous. Biggest single donor was the U.S., with a total display of 52 works. The Soviets sent a consignment of 13 works rarely seen outside Russia, including four from the Hermitage. Canada helped fill the Italian void with Piero di Cosimo's Vulcan and Aeolus, part of a group of ten pieces that modestly included only two native Canadians, Jean-Paul Riopelle and Paul-Émile Borduas. France obliged with 28 pieces, West Germany with twelve, Japan with ten, Britain with 14, The Netherlands with eight. But some of the most striking contributions came...