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JOSEPH HELLER has been on an odyssey for the last 13 years. Since Catch-22 was published in 1961 he has been on a voyage through uncharted waters far from the Mediterranean island of Pianosa, the setting for his World War II novel. His voyage in Something Happened takes him through the psyche of one man, Robert Slocum. And like Ulysses, sleeping under a pile of leaves, like an ember buried beneath ashes, a small seed of light from his previous work has survived. The bright, animated fires of Catch-22 have died down, but now a new fire...
...Harry moves again, with a couple of pieces of battered luggage and his pet tabby Tonto for company. He has plans to see his daughter in Chicago and an idea of perhaps settling down in California with his other son. The film tracks Harry on his transcontinental odyssey and watches with amusement as he slides into a decent compromise with...
Senator Hughes is probably Coe's most devoted convert. Hughes' long spiritual odyssey carried him from Alcoholics Anonymous and Methodist Sunday-school teaching to the Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship, a group of ministers and laymen who explore psychic phenomena. "I was looking for Christ," Hughes recalls. "I wanted miracles today. I wanted to believe in eternal life. My prayer life was constant, and I read the Scriptures, but what I was seeking I didn't find." Then in 1969 he met Coe, "a man who lived, believed and practiced the Scriptures. So, in prayer, Christ gradually came alive...
...traveling salesman for the presidency and the Republican Party. In his first eight months in office, he flew more than 100,000 miles and made over 500 appearances before groups ranging from a large G.O.P. rally in Chicago to the Boy Scouts. The aim of this energetic odyssey was to rally the party faithful in a time of troubles and give them a glimpse of a new and accessible party leader...
Last week this remarkable odyssey of the American spirit reached a new height. Up on Capitol Hill, there was a town meeting of this nation, perhaps the first like it in our history. All three branches of our Government were at work. So were the people, looking, listening, talking and singing in the mellow summer nights with the great Capitol dome glowing above...