Word: odysseus
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Homer said of Odysseus: "He saw the cities of many men and knew their manners." Reagan's pilgrimage to modern cities of other men will help him better understand European attitudes. "I have never found him closed to talking about any given question," Mitterrand said last week of Reagan. The allies hope that he will return home with a better appreciation of the need to frame economic and strategic policies with greater attention to their effects on America's Atlantic partners...
People travel because it teaches them things they could learn no other way. Herodotus got his real education by traveling. Like Odysseus, he saw "many cities of men." Travel showed him the world and how it worked. Travel is an imperialism of the imagination, a process of acquisition: the mind collects cultures and experiences and souvenirs. The children of the industrial age poured south to dream upon the ruins. Motives are always rich and varied: travel means forms of freedom. Japanese men flock to sex tours in Seoul, Bangkok and Manila (a woman waiting in the lobby of the hotel...
...forward to the play. Vonnegut admitted that he had toyed for some time with modernizing the Odysses myth because he had found Odysseus homecoming "preposturely cruel" to Penelope. He hoped, he said, to show new insights into Penelope's character. For months Vonnegut fiddled with the play, working and reworking his dialogue and transitions But he couldn't pull off the new ending; the play leaves us lost in the middle of a labyrinth. After the drama's short run of 142 performances. Vonnegut acknowledged the cast had salvaged what they could from the play, and that Wanda June...
Wanda June's modern-day Odysseus, mega-war hero and adventurer Harold Ryan who is played superbly by Mark Lupke returns home to New York in the early '70s after a seven-year hiatus But he finds that the world no longer glories in its romantic, violent heroes Nor is his white. Penelope (Nora Seton) a mindless devotedly passionate house wife any longer During her husband's long absence she has gone to college, presently she's being courted by two debonair suitors. Herb Shuttle (Doug Curtis) and Norbert Woodly (Andrew Atkinson...
...been better to drop the horse and concentrate solely on mythology? At Michigan State University, Mr. Stockman switched majors from agriculture to history, and is no farm boy when it comes to the humanities. But the humanities can let you down too. He might have used the metaphor of Odysseus concealing himself under the rams in order to deceive the Cyclops, for example, but the purpose of that deception was escape, not gain. He might also have used the metaphor of Leda and the swan, Zeus taking the form of a swan in order to seduce Leda. In this allegory...