Word: odyssey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is the subject of this ingenuous but significant autobiography, the story of an African Horatio Alger who made good his determination to go to college in America. It is the account of one man's odyssey from the Stone Age to the Space Age, and, above all, it is an example of good will between black and white...
Fitzgerald is best known for his fast-paced, soaring 1961 translation of Homer's Odyssey. He has written three books of his own wide-ranging poetry, but in recent years, living in Italy, he has devoted himself largely to critical writing and visiting lectures at U.S. colleges. A graduate of Choate and Harvard and a student at Cambridge's Trinity College, he worked for the New York Herald Tribune before joining TIME from 1936 to 1949, mainly as a book reviewer. He went to Harvard's English department to lecture on comparative literature only last fall, considers...
Fitzgerald is widely known as a translator of classical Greek writings. He has translated into English Homer's "Odyssey," Sophocles' "Oedipus at Colonus," and, with Dudely Fitts, Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex," Sophocles' "Antigone" and Euripides "Alcestis." In 1961 he won the first Bollingen Award for Translation for his work on Homer's "Odyssey...
...Fitzgerald and his family moved to Italy, living there until the fall. During this period he translated the "Odyssey" and wrote his third book of poems, "In the Rose of Time...
Paroled in 1943 after serving only 2¼ years, Sands, then 23, embarked on a lusty round-the-world odyssey. He sailed the wartime Pacific as a merchant seaman, made up for the years of prison-enforced sexual abstinence in a ten-day romp with an American Red Cross girl in Calcutta, worked for Aramco in Saudi Arabia, dug for diamonds in Venezuela, managed five jungle airports for Panagra in Bolivia, became a skilled pilot and a top-rated sports-car driver...