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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Why "Ulysses"? Every schoolboy knows the story of the Odyssey, epic-sequel to the Iliad, which recites the ten-year wanderings of the wily Odysseus (Latin-Ulysses) in his long-thwarted attempts to get home to his island kingdom after the siege of Troy. The Ulysses of the Odyssey is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ulysses Lands | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

On a third stratum of Joyce's book even deeper meanings appear. Stephen represents the intellect, the creative imagination; Mrs. Bloom the earth, the flesh; Bloom the average half-intelligent, half-sensual man. Like ancient Troy, Ulysses is many cities on one foundation. If the plain reader keeps on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ulysses Lands | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

He wakes from haunted sleep to hear his father slapping his mother (Katherine Warren), to hear himself referred to as "unfortunate." When the mother leaves for good, he follows, implores her vainly to return. He is haled into a divorce court, tortured for testimony by opposing counsel. By judicial decree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 29, 1934 | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

What the Soviet ballet is like was hard to discover from Vecheslova's and Chabukani's dancing. They used the conventional steps, only more of them. The piano accompaniment was too thin to be noticed. Only hint of propaganda was the red cap and the tri-colored cockade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Acrobatics | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

Dr. Sprague has explained his opinion as follows: "It is conceivable, that an enlargement of the already ample monetary base might in some fashion or another bring about the expansion and more effective distribution of credit and currency, but for myself I confess an entire inability to discover any definite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sprague Appears Today in House Committee Hearing | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

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