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Parmelee's session with the President was part of Odyssey Project, a joint endeavor of Time Inc. and the District of Columbia public schools. The program's participants discuss heroes in literature, then write profiles of Washington notables whom they admire. This year the ten students who took part in the project picked, among others, a city official, a sports star -- and one U.S. President. After choosing Reagan last winter, Parmelee was astonished when his interview was granted. His article on the President, including pictures by Odyssey Student Photographer Marta Effinger, will appear in Looking for Heroes, the Odyssey Project...
...Odyssey Project, now in its third year, complements the company's Time to Read program, through which TIME employees have tutored hundreds across the country. "Odyssey leaves room for a lot of creativity," says Sean Riley, 18, who plans to profile Redskins Quarterback Doug Williams. "What you write about is up to you, and you have to learn to be independent." More students may soon learn firsthand what Riley means: Washington school officials are considering expanding the Odyssey Project concept so that special training in writing skills will be available to all of the district's students...
...Norrington's vigorous hands, the result was a revelation. The Fantastique, premiered in 1830, just three years after the death of Beethoven, is an opium-tinged odyssey through the composer's psyche as he pursued his mad passion for the Irish actress Harriet Smithson. Its restless opening, brilliant ballroom scene, desolate pastorale, terrifying march to the scaffold and cackling witches' sabbath bloomed anew, while the 1839 Romeo et Juliette, Shakespeare transformed into sound, burst with hot-blooded vitality...
This task entails a willed return to innocence, to the raw emotions of an 18-year-old boy as he says goodbye to his father at the Minneapolis train station and sets off on an odyssey that will take him, in carefully prearranged steps, to bombing raids over Okinawa. Along the way, the provincial Midwesterner discovers unfamiliar places in his native land: Denton, Texas; Athens, Ga.; Memphis and air stations scattered along the coasts of Florida and California. He and the friends he acquires learn to fly planes, the machines and the maneuvers growing increasingly complex: "Sometimes I had secret...
...port, dreaming up a storm. The Captain knows too well what the voyage of Ulysses was all about. Circe gives the old come-hither. Calypso does her little dance. The Sirens sing. No need to tie the buzzard to the mast. He's been tied there all along. The Odyssey: one long wild fling...