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...Secret of Santo Vittoria (Simon & Schuster) by Robert Crichton, 41, a World War II combat veteran, is very likely the funniest war novel since Mister Roberts. The Troy of his hilarious Iliad is a wine-producing village in southern Italy, a town so poor in everything, including fertilizer, that its inhabitants stalk oxen with a broom and a pan. The Hector of the tale is the village mayor, a paisano whose native cunning has been reinforced by the study of Machiavelli. The Agamemnon of the story is a German captain assigned to rob the village of its only precious possession...
When TIME was launched 43 years ago this month, the "library" the editors took with them to the print shop the first night that they went to press consisted of half a dozen reference works and, appropriately enough, a copy of Homer's Iliad. Today's library, which occupies half of the 26th floor of the TIME & LIFE Building, houses some 83,000 books, half a million biographic and other file folders, and is staffed by 117 men and women, 22 of whom hold degrees in library science. The bureau also maintains a microfilm section...
Blindman's Buff. Man has always held the night in terror?from Homer's day, when the warriors in the Iliad besought Zeus to "deliver from darkness the sons of the Achaeans," through Biblical times, when God's direst threat was to "set darkness upon thy land," right down to the present, on those rare occasions when he encounters...
...recently finished editing a collection of poems by James Agee, and next fall plans to begin a verse translation of Homer's "Iliad." At the same time, he will start another volume of poetry...
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