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When Fitzgerald's Odyssey won immediate acclaim as the finest English translation of Homer's epic, his reputation was already established by two volumes of original and translated poetry, and the definitive translation, in collaboration with Didley Fitts, of several Greek tragedies, including Sophocles' Oedipal trilogy and Euripides' Alcestis. As William Arrowsmith pointed out in his review of Fitzgerald's Odyssey in The Nation, Fitzgerald avoids a mere word-by-word rendering of the original poem. Rather, he totally recasts the Greek into English,...rethinking and reshaping the Greek by turning the thrust and power beneath the words rather than...
America's treatment of one of her finest sons will forever remain a blight on her conscience...
Nights of Cabiria, many people believe, is Fellini's finest film. Giulietta Masina, who played the peasant girl in La Strada, stars as the prostitute in Nights of Cabiria...
GLADYS KNIGHT AND THE PIPS--Gladys Knight's voice can be driving, caressing, pained, or good-humored. She's one of the finest soul singers to be heard, and her group has been around a long, long time. I'd pay the price of admission to hear "I Heard it Through the Grapevine" sung ten times. I've never seen a Pips concert, but Ms. Knight's superb recording style is probably intoxicating in person...
AMERICAN GRAFFITI AND Mean Streets are ten years apart in setting, 1962 to 1973, but they have some remarkable similarities. Both produced in recent months, both by young directors, both personal statements, both the finest films of the year. But the likeness stretches further, to the atmosphere of each. There is a desperate energy in these movies that's walled in by the oppressiveness of the settings. The characters move with a blind urgency like trapped rats--they have nowhere to go. And the film-makers can do nothing with the material but dig deeper...