Word: odyssey
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...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...
SINCE THE PUBLICATION in 1961 of Robert Fitzgerald's translation of the Odyssey many have wished for an equally good English version of the Iliad, just as they were hoping in 1960 for an Odyssey to match the Iliad of Richard Lattimore. Fitzgerald admired Lattimore's translation so much that he foresaw "a century or so in which nobody will again try to put the Iliad in English verse." He has since retracted that prediction, saying that his thinking on the Iliad "had not at that point been fully developed...
...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...
...bathetic stories of cowpokes in leather and gals in gingham. But with The Iron Horse (1924), Ford was abruptly thrust into the front ranks of American film makers. In the tale of a son's search for his father's murderer, Ford composed a stark sagebrush Odyssey that was to echo in almost all his later work. The forces of nature and fate were given substance; the backdrop of plains, railroads and skies was as important as actors...