Word: iliad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rather poky Shakespeare, last seen on Broadway in the 1890s; but the present revival, if a dubious choice, takes a daring form. Love's Labour is offered as an elegant Edwardian frolic, half satiric comedy, half court masque. Alexander Pope was told of his translation of the Iliad: "A very pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer." Perhaps the City Center should not call this Shakespeare; perhaps the audience even puts up with the play for the sake of the props. But in any case...
...they would any modern language. By the time he died in 1950, he was known as Britain's most lively and controversial translator, responsible for a new Homer boom. This week there are signs that the boom is still on: total U.S. sales of the Rouse Odyssey and Iliad, Mentor Classics announced, have topped 600,000, and a brand-new English edition of the Odyssey has just come...
...Education "core curriculum" into practice. From now on, each student must take at least one specially designed course in the humanities and the social and natural sciences. Sample G.E. course: "Humanism in the West"-man's ideals, tensions, hopes and failures as seen through great books from the Iliad to the Waste Land. ¶ The U.S. Naval Academy, with one deadpan eye on West Point, reported that it had just fired one midshipman for cheating. (West Point's score so far this year: 90-odd.) ¶St. John's College, Annapolis (The Great Books), which last year...
These 294 men and women file some 200,000 words (about equal to two copies of the Iliad) a week to New York, more than half of it by TIME'S own teletype network. They also supply some 30,000 less urgent words a week by air mail reports, and select and mail uncounted other documents...
...doing five times as well-and with books often considerably more worth reading. Among the popular books in the reprint market were George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, A. B. Guthrie's The Big Sky, and James Michener's Tales of the South Pacific. Even The Iliad and The Odyssey sold about 100,000 copies apiece this year. Perhaps the weary, lazy public just wanted good books at a low price...