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...Down & Around. Three years and a Ph.D. later. Keys headed for Europe on a National Research Fellowship and began a seven-year odyssey that took him to Copenhagen to study under Nobel Prize-winning Biochemist August Krogh, to Cambridge University for another degree, to Harvard for human-fatigue experiments, and to an 18,000-ft. peak in the Chilean Andes for high-altitude studies of miners. Then he landed at the Mayo Clinic, where he found himself "in a real medical environment" for the first time. Dr. Keys also found his wife-to-be, Margaret Haney, when he interviewed...
What Reichenbach ended up with was an oddball odyssey including hot-rod races ("tranquilizers for young boys"), Disneyland ("America has thousands of little artificial worlds"), the annual Huntsville Penitentiary Rodeo ("Here hope is never lost"), a Los Angeles striptease school ("Certainly Americans didn't invent the naked woman, but they were the first to have thought of giving her a theoretical formation...
...consciousness; we are never without it-the most ordinary and the most gifted. And through that stream flows much that is banal, tedious, nasty, insufferable, irrelevant. But some of us have the taste to let it flow by." After reading Lawrence of Arabia's translation of the Odyssey, Max, who pursued stylistic perfection like a grail, wrote: "I would rather not have been that translator than have driven the Turks out of Arabia...
...outrageous odyssey continues in France and Britain, but Author Ehren burg would have been wise to recognize that satire on those countries is best left to natives. He does better in what the Soviets had taught Roitschwantz to call "that criminal country, Palestine." By now, he is a "miserable leaf chased by a hundred-year-old storm," his "body a passport," a palimpsest of bruises, and he is on his way to his 19th jail. In Palestine he finds a people who "wanted to organize a stock market in a Biblical manner," Jews beat other Jews for smoking...
...three years ago, a tall, unknown peasant stepped suddenly from the crowd, seized the coffin and lowered it single-handed into the grave. It was a giant's gesture which the dead man himself might have planned. For the author who wrote a brilliant modern sequel to The Odyssey and stirred the world with Zorba the Greek believed that man's destiny is determined by his own acts in the face of life, death...