Word: odyssey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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INTERSTATE 90--"Our finest lad is down!" "You killed the best in Ithaka." Odyssey, XXII...
...does and does not work well on stage." At Harvard, Rich decided he didn't work well on stage, gave up acting, and moved to the gallery as drama critic for the Crimson. He attributes his switch to film criticism to inspiration from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey and to overexposure. "You could see more movies in Cambridge in a week than in a year in Washington," he says. Before joining TIME as a film reviewer in 1977, he spent two years starring in that role at New Times magazine and two more at the New York Post...
...tries to describe his first wife to this woman. "She was a kindergarten teacher, then she got into drugs and moved to San Francisco. She went to est, became a Moonie. She works for the William Morris Agency now." In that throwaway speech he has captured the archetypal odyssey of our time. Wistful questings, the dopey cons with which our society too often responds, the inevitable end in materialism?they are all there in that ingeniously compressed comic moment...
...center of the novel. Its narrator, Ugo Cardinal Galeotti, is an urbane Vatican veteran who enjoys fine wine and good company. He possesses a thoughtful spiritual vision as well, and it is through his eyes that the reader is led along on Declan Walsh's odyssey of the soul as Pope Francesco...
...George Jackson, president of the Harvard Black Student Athletes Association, will also have reason to shine with pride; for the first blow stuck will symbolize the successful completion of an odyssey in boxing promotion that would make Don King blush with envy...