Word: odyssey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...true that the Iliad is The Poem, and the Odyssey is The Other. It may or may not be true that an educated man is one who can read Plato in the original with his feet on the fender. But a man with a degree in Classics is likely never to regret...
Debby is the sentimental odyssey of a halfwit. After her husband is killed in the first World War, 35-year-old Debby cannot understand that he is dead because there has been no sitting-up, and no funeral and there is no grave on which to put flowers. After being stuck away in an institution for delinquent women for a while, she is taken into the home of the warmhearted Merrills...