Word: centaur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Centaur, by John Updike. An imaginative retelling of the Greek myth in modern dress turns the tragic centaur Chiron into a long-suffering high school science teacher...
...CENTAUR (299 pp.)-John Updike -Knopf...
Updike can also create a character who does not leave the mind easily, and the title figure of The Centaur, a high school science teacher named Caldwell, is his best creation...
...among the youngest, most gifted, and most solidly established of the new novelists. His career so far has been the kind young men dream about; six of his books, including two well-received novels (The Poorhouse Fair, and Rabbit, Run) have been published. A third novel, The Centaur, will be issued later this month; it is a complex attempt to combine as parallel themes reminiscence of small-town boyhood with Greek mythology. There is almost no critic who has not praised Updike's crystalline style, his mastery of the distilled phrase. Yet amid the praise there is a growing...
When we think of a centaur, Follesdal explained, "our act of thinking has a noema, but no object; because of its noema, however, even such an act is directed. What Husserl did was, in a sense, to combine the theory of intentionality with the theory of name meaning-reference...