Word: odyssey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before the necessaries) are his small Connecticut country place, "October House," a small sailboat on Connecticut's Candlewood Lake, and summer cruises in the Baltic on Finnish windjammers. He reads few books, would "rather open a vein than write," though T. E. Lawrence frequently made corrections in the Odyssey at his suggestion. (Rogers suggested the Odyssey translation to Lawrence.) Fond of bright clothing, Italian cooking, puns and typographical horseplay, Bruce Rogers particularly likes lying abed mornings. On his tombstone, chuckles "B. R.," he would like to have chiseled these instructions for the Angel Gabriel: "Call me last...
...literary beach in recent years have rolled successive tides-a series of psychological novels, sociological books, newspapermen's memoirs, etc. A minor tide which showed no signs of ebbing in 1938 was a wave of books about doctors. Recent best-selling examples: An American Doctor's Odyssey, The Horse and Buggy Doctor, The Citadel. A book called Dr. Norton's Wife, by Dr. Ferdinand Schemm's wife, Mildred Walker, appeared last week just in time to ring the big year...
...which Walter Gropius is chairman, Breuer is, like Gropius, a creator of the international school of architecture. And like most internationalists, he is restless, widely traveled, had roamed over Europe, settled in England, when he packed up to follow Gropius to Harvard last year. Breuer's architectural Odyssey began when he graduated from the gymnasium at Pecs, Hungary, in 1920. Then 18, the son of a middle-class doctor, he streaked for Vienna, heard about the newly established Bauhaus, moved to Germany and then Paris, where his furniture designs had given him a reputation, was called back to Germany...
...into Puerto Vallarta, 2,000 miles from Santa Cruz, on the west coast of Mexico. News travels slowly from Puerto Vallarta, an isolated fishing village hemmed in by coast ranges, but last week the captain of a tuna boat radioed a brief account of the Tira's odyssey. Although the Tira had an auxiliary Diesel motor, the boys had journeyed entirely under sail. After many days at sea they put in at Magdalena Bay, near the tip of Lower California, but the Mexican coast guard sent them on their way. Days later they missed their next landfall, Cape...
...instructors, although generally commended for the interest of his classes was felt to be a little too easy-going on fundamental grammatical mistakes, causing trouble in more advanced courses. Greek A, the course in Homer, devotes the first half year to the Iliad and the second to the Odyssey. Many of the concentrators take the first half of this course and then go on to the second half of Greek B, Athenian Drama, and consider this a good step...