Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...AMERICAN JOURNEY by Richard Reeves...
...nothing to do but go ashore, and once there, no way except by walking to reach Louisville, 25 miles away over a snow-covered trail. But Tocqueville had limitless energy and curiosity. As Political Columnist Richard Reeves observes in this book retracing the French aristocrat's nine-month journey through the U.S., even after the freezing forced march Tocqueville was still restlessly observing and asking questions...
...modern reporter right to confine his travels to a retracing of Tocqueville's journey in the older and possibly more fatigued half of the U.S.? Louisville, for instance, seemed to Reeves drained of all local character (and, ignominiously, of its local Falls City beer, now produced elsewhere). Louisville was "just a place where a few hundred thousand Americans happen to live at the moment." Could he have said that about Dallas or Seattle? And would even the worn and scuffed Eastern cities have seemed fresh and strong if Reeves, like Tocqueville, had been a foreign observer...
Professor of Greek and Latin Gregory Nagy plans to delve into some Pindar this summer, but he suggests a singular literary journey for students. If they read anything at all, they must read the Robert S. Fitzgerald '33 translation of Homer's The Odyssey, Nagy assigns the Richard Lattimore version for his perennially popular course Lit & Arts C-14. "The Concept of the Hero in Hellenic Civilization." He lauds the Fitzgerald translation as a "beautiful experience because of its artists unity...
Ever since his defeat, just as Kirbo had predicted, Carter has resumed his rustic and provincial life in Plains, the tiny (pop. 651) crossroads town where his extraordinary journey to power had begun. Absorbed by his book, he has deliberately closed himself off from the rest of the world. In political terms, he has vanished so completely that he might almost never have existed. Shunned by his fellow Democrats, ignored by his successor, Carter has virtually become a nonperson, a President who never...