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...Western narrative since Homer. The six years he spent translating the Odyssey involved long, grinding sessions with Greek lexicons and his own imagination, engaged in a "tug-of-war between ancient Greek words and their modern English equivalents." He passed versions of his work around to trusted colleagues, particularly Bernard Knox, who taught him more than 40 years ago at Yale and whose introduction to the new Odyssey is marvelously informative. Fagles reworked and revised some passages more than 20 times. His labors now ended, Fagles pronounces himself "bereft" at leaving Homer's world. He believes, against considerable scholarly dissent...
...picture of him peering out of a tank during the 1988 campaign. Presumably, he wears it on debate nights, the way some veterans get out their old Eisenhower jackets on D-day anniversaries. He's thinking, as he often does during presidential debates, what he should have said when Bernard Shaw asked him how he'd feel about punishment if someone raped his wife...
...With reporting by Bernard Baumohl and Stacy Perman/New York
...Reported by Sam Allis/Boston with Bernard Baumohl/New York
Terrence Caza is blusteringly appealing as the sexist, willful Bernard Nightingale, who goes to the press with his theories about Byron, rather than publishing in an academic journal. Nightingale's character is a bit of an anachronism, and makes the play seem to be set in the 1980's, rather than the present day, as the mention of quarks and other such scientific developments would imply...