Word: odyssey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Master Finley spent most of his talk discussing the plot and implications of the Odyssey and regaled the members of the various reunion classes with his witty analogies between past and present. Finley called the humanities "an escape from perpetual particularity" and "the clarifier of the world...
...hardy band of 82 Russian-speaking wanderers who call themselves "Old Believers," the men in flowing beards and the women in bright peasant dresses, were sailing last week on the latest leg of a religious odyssey that has taken them halfway round the world. Behind them lay 300 years of persecution, an exodus from Russia across Asia, a bitter exile in Communist China. Ahead was a free, pioneering life in the forests of Brazil...
Meals by Blowtorch. The five cars on the odyssey made an odd lot. The heftiest, a four-cylinder Itala, weighed in at two tons and worked up to 40 h.p. The others: a couple of two-cylinder, 10-h.p. De Dions, a 15 h.p. Spyker, and a tiny (6 h.p.) three-wheel Tri-Contal. Before they had covered 20 miles, all the cars needed coolies to haul them most of the rest of the way to Kalgan, on the edge of the desert...
Wind & Froth. "Tall in body and mind," a handsome, brown-eyed man with a deep voice, Brann first hit Waco at the age of 39 after an odyssey that began in rural Illinois. He went to work as a bellhop when he was 13. By 21, he had been a painter, freight-train fireman, brakeman, baseball pitcher and manager of an opera company. Then, educating himself as he went along, he worked on newspapers in St. Louis, Galveston, Houston, Austin and San Antonio. In Austin, his first attempt to run his own paper foundered...
...Trojan Horse, a tragedy based on the Fourth Book of Homer's Odyssey, tells how the Trojan people, cowed by fear, transport the Trojan Horse into their city, thus ensuring their own destruction. More than mere tragedy, it is an ironic and powerful parable, with a profound significance for Americans, because the attitudes that cause the Trojans to accept the horse parallel certain attitudes existing today in America...