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...Arion Mancuso, the general manager of Crane and Rigging Services, LLC in Southboro, Mass., summed up the ideology of moving big things...
Arrowsmith's colleagues charge that he is himself a living refutation of his own theories. A topflight scholar who has translated Euripides, Petronius and Aristophanes, he also co-edits a classical quarterly called Arion, and is editing books of Greek comedies and of Nietzsche's writings. None of his students find that this work has made Bill Arrowsmith either inhumane or dull...
Dryden did it for Virgil, Pope for Homer. A few living poets have recently produced such elegant efforts as Richmond Lattimore's Iliad and Robert Fitzgerald's Odyssey. But to four lively classicists at the University of Texas, who have just launched a pert quarterly called Arion, the field cries out for even zestier treatment. Arion has set out to banish the philological quibbling and fusty Victorian translations that have stupefied students for generations. Applying the verbal and visual techniques of Eliot, Pound, Joyce, Henry James and the movies, it aims to reawaken pleasure...
...last week was Arion's even better second issue, with English Poet Christopher Logue's new version of The Iliad's Book XVI, which culminates in a bloody battle between Greeks and Trojans. Among Logue's curdling visual effects...
...Minneapolis, Theater Owners Rubenstein & Kaplan took action against TV and rowdy teenagers. By barring adolescents, except those accompanied by adults, from their Dale Theater, they were so successful in bringing adults back to the movies that they reopened the long closed Arion Theater and barred not only noisy kids but all advertisements, including trailers for coming pictures. Explained Owner Rubenstein: "People leave their TV sets because they're sick of commercials; they don't want to see them in movies...