Word: odyssey
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...freely as they would any modern language. By the time he died in 1950, he was known as Britain's most lively and controversial translator, responsible for a new Homer boom. This week there are signs that the boom is still on: total U.S. sales of the Rouse Odyssey and Iliad, Mentor Classics announced, have topped 600,000, and a brand-new English edition of the Odyssey has just come...
They have done both. New American Library, probably the largest of the reprint houses, has published 11 million copies of Mickey Spillane's sexy drivel-and also reprinted, in more modest editions, the Odyssey and Crime and Punishment...
...farmhouse ablaze, an exploding bomb, a boy running into a woods, a vineyard recognizably Yugoslavian by the way the vines were staked, another farmhouse and another man & wife told further chapters of the deaf-mute odyssey. A final drawing showed the Austrian guard picking him up at the border...
Grandfather Said, "Grin." The adventures of the unnamed hero (he is called Boy, or Brother) take on the near-heroic quality of a modern tragic Odyssey. Simple and idealistic, he hopes to become an educator, to help advance his people. He loves his college, has unquestioning respect for its famed Negro president and its millionaire Northern benefactors. He is sure that his slave grandfather must have been wrong when he laid down his deathbed formula for dealing with the whites: "Live with your head in the lion's mouth . . . Overcome 'em with yesses, undermine 'em with grins...
...Werner ("Fighting against my people now is fighting for them") and a tough Wehrmacht sergeant (Hans Christian Blech) who works for the Americans "because you're winning the war." Werner's dangerous mission behind German lines to locate the position of a Panzer army develops into an odyssey through the German state of mind. Tormented inwardly by reminders of his old loyalties, he finds despair, spiritual decay, flickering compassion, Nazi brutishness and remnants of a severe Prussian sense of honor...