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...first—and only—time that I read Homer??s “The Odyssey” was in my high school freshman English class. I hated it. I was alternately bored with the flush language, infuriated by Odysseus’s ego and infidelity, and frustrated by what I saw as Penelope’s pathetic loyalty. I kept on putting down “The Odyssey” to sneak a peek at the next book on the syllabus, which I thought to be far more satisfying: “The Scarlet Pimpernel...
...America on the brink of some of its recent wars,” says Chase-Levenson. “We’ll have half the cast in togas and masks and half in modern clothing.”Chase-Levenson asserts that the production is not just about Homer??s Iliad.“We’re putting on a modern drama that happens to be set in ancient Troy,” he says. “We’ve got an amazing cast, a terrific staff, and it’s a great...
...variant of this ascetic self-denying perspective also lurks behind the prohibition impulse. Make no mistake: The war on drugs is about controlling people, not crime. Drugs have largely been defined by their links to vice and bacchanalia—from Homer??s lotus eaters (rescued from Lethe and lethargy) to modern pill-popping clubbers—which sets off a hand-wringing moral panic rather than rational thought. Perhaps the social externalities of drug use exceed the costs of prohibition, but the war on drugs usually isn’t justified by such cost-benefit analysis...
...time,” Pride skipper Bill Edwards said, adding, “We like to make it exciting.” The trio of wind-aided longballs—No. 3 hitter Carolann Lubach gave Hofstra a 1-0 lead in the fourth inning on a line-drive homer??ultimately resolved a classic pitcher’s duel between Madick and Pride ace Kayleigh Lotti in the home team’s favor. “I knew they were a good hitting team,” Madick said. “If you miss a pitch...
...Grinnell, Cech majored in chemistry, but he describes an undergraduate experience steeped in the liberal arts. “I was to derive as much enjoyment studying Homer??s Odyssey, Dante’s Inferno, and Constitutional History as Chemistry,” he writes in his Nobel autobiography...