Word: iliad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "The Siege of Leningrad," an Iliad of a struggle in which the Russian city held out for 2½ years (August 1941 to January 1944) against German encirclement total except for one tenuous ice road across frozen Lake Ladoga...
Bach swings. So well, in fact, that jazzmen have been spinning out variations on his music ever since the 1930s, when Benny Goodman's band started belting such numbers as Bach Goes to Town, and since then Bach has been through more modern translations than the Iliad. Now from Paris comes an eight-voice chorus called the Swingle Singers, with a new gimmick - sing-swinging Bach...
...Voters, but I do think he should not have killed the little boy." She has a husband that will spend all the eloquence at his command celebrating woman as Venus or Venus-matrix but never as Minerva, a woman likely to put modern man through more troubles than the Iliad of misery Hector suffered under her command...
Students quickly dubbed the new timetable "trimenster," found that it whittled away time for dating, extracurricular activities and lesson absorption. At Florida State University, one sophomore says: "I have a feeling of cramming rather than learning." Another student complained that he "had to read the Iliad in two nights." By taking a full load of courses each trimester, a student could graduate in as few as eight trimesters. But at the University of Florida, most students have gone the other way, cutting the average load from 15½ credit hours to 14½, while others attend only two trimesters...
...private life, entered running at a plausibly pelting long-distance pace, yet with breath enough to deliver quite stunningly and with graphic gestures the dreadful Messenger's Speech of the fleet storm-wrecked on it homeward voyage. Mr. Perley Noyes's Agamemnon was a king out of the Iliad, quite as intended by Aeschylus, and Mr. Alfred Longfellow Benshimol's Aegisthos, a brilliant, sparkling daredevil, jubilantly and dangerously off his guard...