Word: odyssey
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...odyssey of the Goodman family's Degas may have much in common with hundreds of lost works. Landscape with Smokestacks first came into the family on June 9, 1932, when it was acquired at a Paris auction for 10,000 francs (U.S. dollar equivalent at that time, $740) by Simon's grandfather, Friedrich Gutmann, a German-Jewish banker living in Holland. With the onset of World War II, part of the family collection, which included 10 Old Masters and several other Impressionist canvases, was sent to France for safekeeping, only to be seized there by the Nazis. When Germany invaded...
...arrived from Switzerland. We spent one restless night wondering, Who was this young lady with the purple spiky hair sleeping down the hall? But we hadn't encountered any real problems, and at that early date we were still confident in the arrangement. Not long after, our au pair odyssey began in earnest. It's no tale of tragedy, like that of Sunil and Deborah Eappen. But it is, I believe, an all too common experience, one that laid bare the flawed nature of au pair programs and underscored the chaotic state of child care...
...Learned to Overcome My Fear and Love Arik Sharon, a strange blend of fact and fiction, traces the odyssey of Avi Mograbi, a politically leftist filmmaker, as he attempts to document right-winger Ariel "Arik" Sharon during the 1996 Israeli election campaign. Mograbi intends to reveal a harsher side of the publicly charming Sharon. But Mograbi's plan unravels as he too is seduced by Sharon's charisma...
...nonsense New York judge catapulted to prominence by the libel suit he brought against loose-mouthed radio talkster Don Imus; of complications from a stroke; in New York City. Though the public may have been fascinated by the flap with Imus, jurists were more intrigued by Rothwax's legal odyssey over the years from civil liberties lawyer to law-and-order judge. In an attention-catching 1996 book, Guilty: The Collapse of Criminal Justice, Rothwax argued that justice would be better served by clipping defendants' rights and giving police more leeway to seize evidence...
Though there has recently been a great growth in interest in the Classics (one that Walker fostered on campus last spring, by participating in the reading from Robert Fagles' new Odyssey that included Fagles and Jason Robards), it is still easy to be skeptical about the relevance of Greek tragedy, especially a very archaizing and formal one, to modern life, and thus to question the value of any such production, no matter how many risks it takes. But the remedy for the doubt is available to anyone willing to admit how exquisitely the work of Euripides, especially The Bacchae, frames...