Word: odyssey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hell, and he decided not to take it any more. He walked into the Meridian Mortgage Co., seized President Richard Hall, 42, wired the muzzle of a sawed-off shotgun to Hall's neck and led him into the street to begin a 63-hour odyssey of personal fury and public terror...
...Keeley's essay fills that gap in Cavafy scholarship admirably. Keeley traces the poet's evolution from a labored Romanticist of no particular distinction to a creative and unique spokesman for the contemporary and ancient Hellenic worlds. Cavafy's literary odyssey bequeathed to modern literature a contribution which is just beginning to receive due recognition--a contribution, Keeley believes, akin to that of major poets such as Yeats, Eliot and Pound--who, like Cavafy, shaped "their individual myths out of the cities and countries of their imaginations." But Cavafy, in relative literary isolation, "was the first of these to project...
...Administration's commitment to spend $31.2 billion in 20 months. In Rome, Mondale listened sympathetically to Premier Giulio Andreotti's explanation of Italy's need for a $1 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund to shore up its inflation-racked economy. Watching Mondale's odyssey from back home, one State Department official said: "He has been doing extraordinarily well. There's a lot of elation at how it's going...
...travel agent for the Inaugural odyssey was Maxine Reese, who, while managing the Carter campaign headquarters in the Plains rail depot last June, had started arranging the bash. "Jimmy told me he was going to win, so I figured we had to hire a train to take Plains to Washington," said Maxine. Now she had the train-and an $85,000 bill from Amtrak. As she settled into her seat, the ample Maxine also had a bottle of Taittinger champagne, a "pair of thermal underwear that would stretch around a live oak tree," and a new lowcut, black Inaugural dress...
...housing controversy is but the latest link in a long chain of affronteries to the democratic process at Harvard. The odyssey of the Afro-American Studies Department, won by the sheer guts and conviction of students in the late 1960s, and castrated by the administration's patient patronizing and violent hatchetwaving; the insulting neglect with which the University has treated the widespread demand for Women's Studies; the even more outrageous impositions made on workers by Harvard as an employer, going to the point of actively participating in efforts to emasculate the national Affirmative Action program, even failing to comply...