Word: ideas
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THERE'S ALWAYS SOMETHING REFRESHING about the idea of plunging a stake into the eye of the Cyclops. And when one hears this gory little episode read aloud, it only gets better, as was made duly clear by the epic's latest translator, Robert Fagles, and theater veterans Jason Robards and Kathryn Walker in "An Evening's 'Odyssey.'" The performance of this modern translation at once reinvigorated an already bracing classic and tapped into the ageless appeal of story-telling, of re-inventing the tale on the spot...
...intriguing anti-hero and simultaneously a good husband, Odysseus demonstrates along with his kin a push-and-pull between family values and "being irritated at each other." And on a more somber front, Odysseus' station in life reflects the read-justments inherent to a post-war epic and the idea that wars can be both fought and eventually ended...
Intelligent white people are so caught up in the idea of combating crime in post-Cold War America that they are unable to see that their support of the prison industrial complex and the virtually all-white police force is the greatest threat to "quality of life" in the nation...
...This idea was supported by Councillor Anthony D. Galluccio, who said that the transfer tax followed "the wrong rationale...
...This process amazes me, but, in terms of molecular control, no one has the faintest idea what is going on," Tsai says in a newsletter...