Word: nausicaa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Giveaway Game. Since antiquity, when the beautiful Princess Nausicaa in Homer's Odyssey laundered her linen by placing it in a stream and then dancing on it, women have sought improved ways of washing clothes. Honey, bran, sheep dung and even putrid urine have all been used as cleansing agents over the years. Enzymes were introduced as home-laundry presoaks during the early 1960s in Europe, where they have long been used for removing stains in hospitals and slaughterhouses. Unilever, the huge Dutch-British soapmaker, markets enzyme laundry products in 20 countries...
...NAUSICAA (Composers Recordings Inc.). This modern pastiche of Homer by Poet Robert Graves and Composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks suffers only the vice of murkiness: Nausicaa becomes Penelope, Odysseus becomes Aethon, the chorus sings in Greek to the soloists' English, and the recording omits long, crucial passages. But the music is electric, the myth is fey and absorbing, and the performance-recorded live from the opera's premiere at the 1961 Athens Festival-is as warm and engaging as a Greek night...