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...create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind." Readers of this strange little book of aphorisms, which Kazantzakis finished in 1923 before he wrote such works as Zorba the Greek and The Odyssey: a Modern Sequel, will sense the greatness of the writer's spiritual longing, if not of his thought. They will hear some mental creaks, and they will find the consolation cool but nonetheless bracing...
Ulysses' ancient Odyssey with a bagful of spirited winds had something in common with the voyage that Arkansas' Wilbur Mills, chairman of the powerful House Ways & Means Committee, embarked on last week. With Mills's hand on the tiller, the House committee killed off by a vote of 17 to 8 (ten Republicans, seven Democrats v. eight Democrats) the Forand bill (TIME, April 4), which would provide old-age medical and surgical benefits to Social Security pensioners at a cost -to be paid for by increased Social Security taxes-estimated to run $2 billion in the first...
...ensuing odyssey is a kind of poor man's around-the-world-in-80-days. There is a low-keyed humor in Keith Stewart's role as a provincial Ulysses, for the West Baling mechanic has never before set eyes on a piece of foreign currency, taken a shower, or been on the water, and he packs his English woolens for the tropics. But Keith's loving care of craft and his fascination with minutiae of technique will win the reader's respect. In the end, though, it is neither tropic adventures nor miniature marvels that...
...were eight children of assorted ages. But when they turned up in white tie and tails to play at the Tel Aviv Museum last week, the members of Chicago's Fine Arts Quartet won the same kind of tumultuous reception they have encountered everywhere on their three-month odyssey through Europe and Israel. Said one Tel Aviv critic: "This is the best thing we've had from America." It took a while for the quartet to prove its class to European audiences. Although the four members-Cellist George Sopkin, 44, First Violinist Leonard Sorkin, 43, Second Violinist Abram...
...Fresh from his last safari (Dylan Thomas in America), Poet-Critic John Malcolm Brinnin goes in search of this Abominable Snowoman of modern letters. What he brings back is not startling, but it is a biographically complete if critically indulgent account of the concentric odyssey of Gertrude Stein, of whom it might be said: in her beginning was her end, because she was all middle...