Word: odyssey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year circumnavigation of the globe (1768-71), Cook's voyage added Australia, New Zealand and a number of South Pacific isles to the then known world. Narrated by Author Gwyther with seadog relish, authority and profound professional admiration, Cook's epic journeyings have the fascination of an Odyssey from Yorkshire...
...mock westerns by evoking Corneille is also to point out their grandeur, a grandeur perhaps close to puerility, even as childhood is close to poetry . . . Everyone, children and simple men, recognizes the naive grandeur of western movies. Epic and tragic heroes are universal . . . The trek west is our Odyssey...
...most distinguished rank-and-filers, Violin Virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin. Subject oft their chat: the merits of forming a United Nations orchestra. Petrillo was heading for an international labor powwow in Vienna; Menuhin, between concerts in Europe, could get in some hot licks on a forthcoming book about his recent odyssey. Tentative title: Around the World on a G-String...
...mass of low-grade paperbacks, the new trend began $% years ago, when the famed British firm of Penguin set up a U.S. branch in Baltimore. Today Penguins are selling at the rate of 1,500,000 a year, and among the bestsellers are such titles as The Odyssey, The Canterbury Tales and Dante's Inferno. In 1953 Doubleday followed, with Anchor books. They were good to look at, with clean, modern covers, and offered (at 65? to $1.25 a volume) such fine old fare as Trevelyan's History of England, such first-rate modern fiction as Henry Green...
Working on the script of a supercolossal production of Homer's Odyssey, Riccardo compares Emilia with Penelope, himself with Ulysses, resorts to nagging his wife and to endless intellectual soliloquies instead of being the forceful man Emilia wants him to be. In the end he takes to daydreaming that Emilia has come back to him, loses her in a concluding scene that is almost as agonizing for the reader as for Riccardo...