Word: ithaca
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MAURICE HINCHEY (D) District 26 (South--Kingston; Binghamton; Ithaca...
Winning by a narrow margin in his two House races, Hinchey may be too liberal for this rural midstate district. He supports strong environmental regulation, the pro-choice movement and AIDS funding. Opponent Sue Wittig is trying to exploit Hinchey's liberal soft spot, but he is counting on Ithaca, home to Cornell University, and the labor centers of Binghamton to send him back to Washington...
Penn faced Temple yesterday and meets Yale Saturday, while Brown travels to Ithaca to square off against Cornell on Saturday...
...these qualities abound in Fagles' translation. The problems the epic must resolve are quickly set forth. All the surviving Greek heroes from the 10-year siege and ultimate destruction of Troy--the subject matter of the Iliad--have long since returned to their homes except Odysseus, the King of Ithaca. There, 10 years after the fall of Troy, his faithful wife Penelope fends off a riotous band of suitors for her hand in marriage; his son Telemachus, an infant when his father went off to war, cannot repel the suitors or claim the throne without sure knowledge that Odysseus will...
...narrative speed, the Odyssey is remarkable in the way it resists modern notions of suspense. The question is not what will happen next but how thoroughly the bard recounts the particulars of every scene. Fagles' translation captures this peculiar quality perfectly. Late in the story Odysseus is back in Ithaca; he has revealed his identity to Telemachus and two loyal servants and challenged the hundred or so of Penelope's suitors to a fight to the death. All hell is about to break loose, and yet Homer pauses to follow one of the suitors' accomplices in search of weapons...