Word: menelaus
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...have never forgotten. Long before Christ they knew her as the fairest of all women, the one the Trojan Paris stole, for whom the Greeks fought ten long years. Brave warriors died for Helen. Brave poets since have spent their dearest words on her. She has been Menelaus' Helen, Paris' Helen; Homer's Helen, too, and the Helen of Herodotus, Euripides, of Kit Marlowe, Alexander Pope, Andrew Lang. Recently John Erskine, perspicacious professor at Columbia University, won fame with his Helen refurbished. Last week and for the first time, still proud, still beautiful, she came...
...situation when the famed gentleman, Paris, who later alienated the affections of Menelaus' wife, was made to choose among three ladies, Hera, Athene and Aphrodite, was last week reversed: Pennsylvania had her choice of three gentlemen. As the three ladies respectively made Paris an offering of power, of martial glory and of the fairest woman on earth, so the three gentlemen each made an offer. Mr. Pepper came offering the glory of supporting the Administration. Mr. Pinchot offered the fierce pleasure of fighting for bone-dry prohibition. Mr. Vare offered the most inspiring of beverages?beer and wine...
...James Joyce describes the life of New York--or a part of it. Christopher Morley's "Thunder on the Left" is well known and applauded. "The Private Life of Helen of Troy" by John Erskine is an entertaining and modern story of that fascinating lady after her return to Menelaus. Then there is "Bring! Bring!" by Conrad Aiken, good short stories with a bad title, a collection of the stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, "Caravan" by John Galsworthy, and Jane Austen's "Sanditon," hitherto unpublished. Despite the CRIMSON'S obituary of Sherwood Anderson, his "Dark Laughter" seems...
...Menelaus once remarked: "The only thing about her I understand, is her looks, and I don't understand how they last so well...
...Significance. As Aeschylus wrote the tragedy of Agamemnon's homecoming, so Mr. Erskine has essayed the comedy of Menelaus' return. It is a comedy of manners-all conversation (and plenty of it), witty, charming, subtle. Much of it is new as milk still warm from the udder, and much of it is old as human nature. It is cast in the shape of a modern novel, and yet, as regards the number of characters for example, it almost conforms to the rules of the old Greek drama. It is a fastidious tidbit for lovers of refinement, polished facets...