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...Hiad and The Odyssey, by Homer...
Professor of Greek and Latin Gregory Nagy plans to delve into some Pindar this summer, but he suggests a singular literary journey for students. If they read anything at all, they must read the Robert S. Fitzgerald '33 translation of Homer's The Odyssey, Nagy assigns the Richard Lattimore version for his perennially popular course Lit & Arts C-14. "The Concept of the Hero in Hellenic Civilization." He lauds the Fitzgerald translation as a "beautiful experience because of its artists unity...
...locate Conan in time; this is the Stoned Age.) Seeking vengeance, Conan (Arnold Schwarzenegger) becomes, incidentally, the world's first deprogrammer. This among other muscle-bound links to contemporary life is definitely intentional. What is not is the flatness of Schwarzenegger's performance, the dullness of his odyssey. Instead of the giddy lift one sometimes obtains from improbably heroic adventures, one gets a grim endorsement of the uses of primitive mysticism and brutality. Conan is a sort of psychopathic Star Wars, stupid and stupefying. -By Richard Schickel
King relates his backstage odyssey in the voice of vintage Slim Pickens. When Songwriter Carol Hall and aspiring Director Peter Masterson, both fellow Texans, want to turn his story of the "Chicken Ranch"-a LaGrange, Texas, bordello closed by politicos-into a musical comedy, the financially troubled journalist promises himself to do "big work." But, as he admits, "whether a musical about a whorehouse made the weight" is debatable...
Thus his 1980 campaign chronicle is not the familiar insider's tale of life on the trail. He is no longer a boy on the bus seeking out the behind-the-scenes moments that give dimension to the electoral odyssey. "The outdoor reporting seems to shrink in significance, and what remains most relevant is the quiet moments at my desk," he concludes. "I could sit at home and learn as much or more about the frame of the campaign as I could on the road...