Word: odyssey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They speak dialects that fall into scatty rhyme, slick and ingenious, while Cole ridge-Taylor Perkinson's music runs from gospel to voodoo to jazz. The evening is a fairly dense and ambitious odyssey that flirts with incoherence and goes on a bit too long. But the trip is worth it. In a season of obsessive nostalgia, MacDaddy at least has blood in it, and not embalming fluid...
...little more than three hours later, the "mad odyssey," as one Arab commentator described it, ended in the Persian Gulf emirate of Kuwait. Again airport authorities refused landing permission. Under threat from the terrorists, Captain Joe Kroese brought in his plane anyway on a secondary runway. After an hour of haggling between the terrorists and Kuwaiti officials over conditions of surrender, the twelve hostages and crewmen quietly walked down the ramp, followed a short time later by their captors. "We are Palestinian Arabs, not criminals," declared one of them. "The criminals are the ones who bomb Palestinian refugee camps...
...data and then was hurled by the enormous gravitational pull of the sun's larg est planet onto a course that will eventually carry it out of the solar sys tem, toward the stars - the first object from earth ever to embark on such a cosmic odyssey...
...read three passages form his new translation of the Iliad to a packed auditorium at the Science Center on Tuesday afternoon. This work is the culmination of eight years of devotion, and when it is published early next year, it is likely to be greeted as enthusiastically as his Odyssey was. The audience at Tuesday's reading, sponsored by the Harvard Advocate, responded keenly to the pitch of his achievement...
When Fitzgerald's Odyssey won immediate acclaim as the finest English translation of Homer's epic, his reputation was already established by two volumes of original and translated poetry, and the definitive translation, in collaboration with Didley Fitts, of several Greek tragedies, including Sophocles' Oedipal trilogy and Euripides' Alcestis. As William Arrowsmith pointed out in his review of Fitzgerald's Odyssey in The Nation, Fitzgerald avoids a mere word-by-word rendering of the original poem. Rather, he totally recasts the Greek into English,...rethinking and reshaping the Greek by turning the thrust and power beneath the words rather than...