Word: odysseus
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...pages, eleven poems. Poet Masefield telescopes the Iliad's 24 books, hitting such high spots as Paris' rape of Helen, Agamemnon's sacrifice of Iphigenia for a favorable wind, and focusing on wily Odysseus' successful gate-crashing scheme of the Wooden Horse. Though he contributes no mighty lines or markedly memorable verse to the Troy legend, Masefield's dramatic narrative, in which different speakers take up the story in turn, adds some freshness of its own to an oft-told tale...
...Steuer in the double capacity of Special Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Special Assistant District Attorney appointed for the case. For his services in this case the soft-tongued Mr. Steuer, who has pocketed enormous fees, who has a reputation in the law of having outsmarted more men than Odysseus, is to be paid $1. It was he who presented the case to the grand jury and secured the indictments. So unwelcome was his participation that Messrs. Marcus and Singer made a futile effort to have him removed as illegally appointed...
Overture, "Dedication of the House DeKoven Aria from "Orpheus" Gluck Symphony in B Flat Haydn Rosamunde Ballet Music Schubert Recitative and Aria from "Odysseus" Bruck Prelude to "Die Meistersinger" Wagner...
...exactly the same numbers as that first one fifty years ago. It will be opened fittingly by Reginald DeKoven's Overture, "Dedication of the House." Madame Matzenauer, who replaces the soloist of the first concert, will have two arias, one from Gluck's "Orpheus," the other from Bruck's "Odysseus." Many of the audience will recall her singing in the Brahms Festival of this past spring...
Three Cornell men, Carl Weagant, Dudley X Schoales, Joseph Rummler, last summer after being graduated, sailed across the Atlantic in the 40-ft. ketch Carlsark. Last week they returned to Ithaca, N. Y., presented a slab of rock from Ithaca, Greece, hometown of their avowed exemplar, Homeric Odysseus, to Cornell's archeological museum, declared proudly that in exchange for the slab they had set up on the heights above Greek Ithaca a rock carried from Cornell's campus inscribed "CORNELL FOREVER...