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...MALACHY'S COURT (170 pp)-Olivia Robertson-Odyssey Press...
Mozart's librettist, Giambattista Varesco, brewed a confusing plot based on the Odyssey, with such extraneous characters as Electra thrown in. Idomeneo, King of Crete, is buffeted by storms on his return from the siege of Troy. To appease Poseidon, he swears to sacrifice the first person he encounters on landing. That turns out to be his son Idamante, who is in love with Ilia, daughter of the vanquished King of Troy. The gods finally clear up the whole matter, and the opera ends four hours later with Idamante and Ilia on the throne. Even the charm of Mozart...
...armchair lecturegoer with a simple twist of the wrist can hear anything from Homer's Odyssey to an explanation of the weather by lecturers drawn from the staffs of Harvard, Boston College, Boston University Lowell Institute, M.I.T. Northeastern, and Tufts...
Records and Publications lacking any knowledge of standard procedure for the suburban press, the ladies moved on to Dean Watson's office, from which they were guided to Lehman Hall. The afternoon odyssey ended back at the Housing office, where it was suggested they pass on to Provost Buck...
...sophomores have left Cambridge on the first leg of an odyssey which will eventually take them to Kenya Colony in Central Africa, via the Mediterranean and Ethiopia...