Word: odyssey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Zahra Couyoumdjoglou, wife of a Bagdad date merchant who has been a bosom friend of Samuel Insull since his arrival in Athens. Mrs. Insull had wanted her husband to surrender and take his chances in the U. S. courts. That seemed too prosaic for Mme Couyoumdjoglou who arranged the Odyssey of the Maiotis...
...Ulysses"? Every schoolboy knows the story of the Odyssey, epic-sequel to the Iliad, which recites the ten-year wanderings of the wily Odysseus (Latin-Ulysses) in his long-thwarted attempts to get home to his island kingdom after the siege of Troy. The Ulysses of the Odyssey is a cunning, commonsensible, nervy, not-too-scrupulous man, an opportunist who triumphs at last not so much by virtue as endurance. Joyce first conceived the tale of Leopold Bloom as a short story, only to discover too many possibilities in it. In his strolls down the beaches of literature he stumbled...
Though Publisher Schuster calls Little Man, What Now? "the Odyssey of the Forgotten Man, the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the world-wide economic crisis," though it has been a big seller in Germany, and though the Book-of-the-Month Club has chosen it for June, many a bewildered reader may ask himself what all the shooting is for. To many a reader Little Man, What Now? will seem a thickly sentimental, occasionally pathetic, never tragic or deeply moving story of a very ordinary little man. As a case-history it is competently managed; as a novel...
...only other two articles in the book not dealing directly with the history of the Class are: "The Harvard Odyssey," a poem, and "Biddy versus Slumber," a playlet. Although every attempt has been made to keep this year's Red Book as short as possible, it is several pages longer than last year's issue due to the size of the Freshman Class. It is expected that the book will be a financial success if all the subscriptions which have been pledged are paid...
...mistake to imply that Professor Palmer's contribution to the intellectual life of Harvard was narrowly limited. By his administrative ability and his papers on education he helped to define the aims of the University in the period of transition inaugurated by President Eliot. His translation of the Odyssey is generally recognized as the most important prose version in the language, and through it ALE name is permanently associated with the classical tradition to which he was temperamentally allied. Genius in teaching, divorced from original scholarship, is not always a thing which a great university remembers with adequate gratitude: happily...