Word: odyssean
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...Greenwich Village home. Not easy on the feet, to be sure, but hardly a life crisis for a healthy Manhattanite on a nice fall day. Yet within minutes Allie is mournfully ogling the food in restaurant windows, panhandling for subway fare and discovering, at the end of her Odyssean trek, that she is "rich . . . compared to some of the people I saw out there today...
Died. Vincent Sheean, 75, Odyssean foreign correspondent and author; following treatment for lung cancer; in Arola, Italy. Sheean covered many of the century's key events: the rise to power of Mussolini and Hitler, the Chinese revolution of 1927, the Spanish Civil War, the London Blitz and the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. Charing at the shibboleth of objectivity, he adopted a personal, partisan, generally leftist tone, though his fervor cooled after the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939. After the war he turned to biography, writing about Gandhi, Verdi, and his friends Sinclair Lewis and Dorothy Thompson. But his best...
...heroine of course cannot raise that kind of money-but the public can and does. Aroused by the brave little woman's battle with the corporate dragon, millions of televiewers produce a deluge of dimes for a fight-the-villain fund. With Odyssean shrewdness, Kovacs pretends to yield. He makes the heroine a present of the train. Unfortunately, he announces with an evil snicker, that leaves him without a train to serve the town. The horrified townspeople turn against the heroine. Has the villain triumphed? As far as the spectator is concerned, there was never any contest. Who could...
Author Samuel clothes his Odyssean story in rich realism and, on a much less ambitious scale, his picture of masculine Manhattan is reminiscent of Joyce's Dublin. Some of his characters are drawn from life: Manhattanites may recognize the portrait of Alfred Richard Orage, onetime lecturer, now editor of the London New English Weekly, who appears here under the pseudonym of "Storm...
...Odyssean poem." he ventured, "seems to be the work of one man, highly literate and a great poet." Contrary-minded professors fear that the works of "Homer" are an ancient hash, comprising the efforts of several great poets and ballad singers, not all of them literate...
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