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...vehicle for the debacle was a playlet called Areopagitica or Escape Fromm Freedom, written eleven years ago by John A. Benedict '54 and Kenneth J. Reckford '54, two veterans of Professor Samuel Beer's annual odyssey. As Professor Beer related to the audience Saturday night, the play, performed only once before, was uncovered after an exhaustive and painstaking search--in his desk--by Thomas Reckford '64, younger brother of the co-author. Even not knowing the dangers involved in exploring the wilds of Professor Beer's desk, I would say the expedition was well worth...
...American poetry in 1940 for his "Collected Poems," Van Doren will conduct English Sb, an advanced course in creative writing formerly given by Archibald MacLeish, professor emeritus. He will also give a Humanities course in "The Narrative Art," which will consider three or four major narratives such as the Odyssey and Don Quixote...
Last week Delgado disclosed that he had indeed returned, but only briefly and ingloriously. Back in Brazil after a secret twelve-day visit to Portugal that was more comic odyssey than triumphal march, he confessed that he had vainly tried to join the abortive New Year's coup at Beja (TIME, Jan. 12). It proved to be, he said, a most "untimely return...
...evidence of stylistic consistency goes far to disprove the 19th century theory that many men wrote the Iliad. Scholars can still debate whether or not the author was Homer, but Computer Classicist McDonough hopes to solve another old mystery: Did the man who wrote the Iliad also write the Odyssey...
...First Lady's week in Greece was a respite after the rigors of her grand tour of the week before. When her husband flew back to the U.S., she lingered on in London for two days of rest and antique hunting. Then she flew off for her Grecian odyssey. Her companions were her sister and brother-in-law, Prince and Princess Radziwill; John Mowinckel, deputy public affairs officer with the USIA in Paris, and his wife. In Greece, Jackie was the official guest of Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis, but being a poor man with only a small apartment...