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...novel Zorba the Greek, a flashing testament to the proposition that every minute of life should be lived to the sensuous, sensual hilt. At least twice, reportedly, he failed to win the Nobel Prize by the narrowest of margins. By taking for his own the name of Homer's poem, by adopting Odysseus as his own hero, Kazantzakis has underlined the audacity of his undertaking. His 33,333 lines measure its vastness. But the poem's real boldness lies not so much in affinities or in size as in what it sets out to do: to relate...
...Birth of Doubt. Author Kazantzakis begins just about where Homer left off. Odysseus has come home, slain Penelope's suitors and re-established his authority. Now Penelope, whom he has not seen for 19 years, bores him. His gentle son Telemachus seems soft and dull and disapproves of his cunning, brutal father who lives as if life were a permanent state of war. With five devoted and adventurous companions, Odysseus builds a new boat and leaves his island home to begin a second odyssey, which is to end in a spiritual trial by fire and death...
Named after a former dean of Princeton University, the award consists of $1,000. Whtman received the prize for his book, Homer and the Homeric Tradition, published in June...
Gardner finds Searchlight (see color) "particularly Japanese in its refined monochrome patterns." After the Hurricane also has one Japanese quality-its rendition of energy through design. The stunned stillness, the animal defeat in Homer's watercolor might seem diametrically opposed to Ogata Korin's lively imaginings (see above); yet the two men would have understood each other. Both spoke in terms of powerfully simple compositions...
Bethlehem's President Arthur B. Homer said that the company has not yet decided whether to appeal. Meanwhile, the decision may well cool some of the merger deals in U.S. industry. The Government has 27 antimerger cases pending, affecting acquisitions by such U.S. industry leaders as Continental Can, El Paso Natural Gas, Pillsbury, Gulf Oil. and Reynolds Metals. While each case will be decided on its own merits, the Justice Department's hand has been strengthened by the Bethlehem case. If Bethlehem appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court, a final decision is not likely before...