Word: odyssey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...AMERICAN DOCTOR'S ODYSSEY-Vic-tor Heiser-Norton...
Last week Victor Heiser began his memoirs with a seven-page account of his Johnstown flood experiences that proved to be the most vivid and interesting of the 544 pages in the book. Otherwise a rambling, ill-arranged, badly-proportioned, autobiographical miscellany, An American Doctor's Odyssey contained enough such passages scattered through it to make it the September choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club and to reward patient readers who were willing to wade through Dr. Reiser's account of his successes to find them...
...ODYSSEY OF THE ISLANDS-Carl N. Taylor-Scribner ($3). Description of a journey through rarely-traveled parts of the Philippines, illustrated by photographs. Author Taylor was killed in New Mexico last February by his house boy, a member of the Penitentes (TIME. March...
...friends I made at Harvard was the man who translated the Odyssey next to me on a narrow bench in Sever Hall," smiled the poet. "I bad a passion for Latin and Greek when I was in college. Professor Morison to the contrary, I was not driven from Harvard by the daily theme requirement, as I took no English courses which required daily themes; to prove to you that I was a worker, however, I may say that I took voluntary composition courses in Greek and Latin...
...illustrating the lack of any continuing criterion of decency, which is fast killing censorship in most U. S. cities, the New York Junior League last month opened an exhibition of banned books from the time of Confucius to the present. Among them: Homer's Odyssey, Shakespeare's Richard the Second, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. The governor of a Chinese province once banned Alice in Wonderland because in it animals talked, thus putting themselves on a par with humans. Tsarist Russia, fearful lest moppets get fantastic ideas, banned Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales...