Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the 723-ft. America was launched in 1939, it was the flagship of the United States Line, the country's largest, fastest, most luxurious liner. But 25 years later, when planes took over the transatlantic travel market, the ship began losing money and was sold to a Greek shipping firm that used it chiefly for cruises around the world. This month, having been resold and then refurbished at a cost of more than $2 million, the America set sail from New York City on a new career and immediately ran into a sea of troubles...
Surely, Mr. Sorel intended Woody Alen to represent a creature known in Greek mythology as a satyr. Or maybe Pan, the great god of nature. Either would have been more applicable than comparing him to the devil. Come on now -Woody Allen the incarnation of evil...
...acts of love are performed by Ethel Laffey, a half-repressed voluptuary who spends a good deal of time in the percales, principally with Greeks, among them vulgarian Businessman Petros Kalkanis and Naval Officer Teddy Avaliotis, whom she marries. Among other Sunday adventures, she is assaulted by her husband's mad father Costa. Kazan, a director of note (A Streetcar Named Desire, Viva Zapata, America America) tends to write scenarios rather than novels. That might be acceptable except for the fact that his dramatis personae seem to be created for the viewer rather than the reader. Still, the novelist...
RUSSIAN THINKERS by Isaiah Berlin Viking; 312 pages; $14.95 "The fox knows many things," the Greek poet Archilochus wrote in one of his fragments. "The hedgehog knows one big thing." Sir Isaiah Berlin the political philosopher, used that enigmatic formula as the framework for one of the most luminous essays of the century, The Hedgehog and the Fox, a study of Tolstoy first published in 1951. Berlin divided the world's writers and thinkers into two categories. The hedgehogs (men like Dante, Plato, Lucretius, Pascal, Hegel, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche) are monists-they organize their universe into a central vision...
...dutifully includes not only Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky but also a dead-on parody of Hiawatha: ("From his shoulder Hiawatha/ Took the camera of rosewood-/ Made of sliding, folding rosewood ..."). A.E. Housman's familiar Hellenic manner is turned inside out in his version of a hilariously mistranslated Greek tragedy: "O suitably-attired-in-leather-boots/ Head of a traveller, wherefore seeking whom/ Whence by what way how purposed art thou come...