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...Odyssey. Robert Fitzgerald translates into the crisp, demotic argot of today, the tale of wily Odysseus...
Helpful Spectator. The third day belonged to Player. His walloping drives carried a country mile down the fairway, his irons were crisp, his approaches deadly, his putting sure. When a tee shot went awry on the 9th hole, he sliced a spoon shot out of deep woods 250 yds. to the green. On the 520-yd., par-five 15th, his second wood overshot the green, but a spectator batted it back. "You people around here," grinned Player, "treat us foreigners very well." With a sparkling 69, Player became the first in Masters history to stay under 70 for the first...
This should reassure the suspicious modern that Homer's epic is not a supernatural swindle but the narrative of a man in trouble-the "first novel," as one translator put it-and that Fitzgerald's English version is in the crisp demotic argot of today. The new translation, however, does not skip or try to improve on the few familiar Homeric cliches: the sea is still "wine-dark" or "fish-cold"; the dawn is still "rosy-fingered...
...arrived well briefed on questions he was likely to be asked. He adroitly parried embarrassing queries, and he projected an image as a crisp and incisive leader. Indeed, most veteran Washington newsmen agree that in his press conference techniques Kennedy has never had a presidential equal. Yet among those same newsmen, there is an increasing sense of dissatisfaction...
...sets were useful and decorative, the orchestra excellent, David Sloss' tempo fast and crisp. The direction was competent and the costumes were clever and colorful...