Word: odyssey
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...Odyssey" another soldier summed up, "is just Homer's embellishment of Ulysses' alibi to his wife for waiting so long to come home after Troy...
...slim, cowlicked teacher from St. John's (the college of the 100 classics) opened his Odyssey and called the class to order. His students, sprawled around the library in Service Club No. 3 at Fort George G. Meade, Md., were 24 privates and officers, including a couple of majors. Teacher John O. Neustadt called first on a bulb-nosed little buck private...
...Odyssey," observed the buck, "is not history; it's pure legend. The history of great battles can be told and retold until all fact is sacrificed for legend." A studious-looking private, first class, took issue. Said he: "It's neither history nor legend; it's just good literature...
Last week another Greek completed a trip that made the Odyssey seem a beeline. This voyager was Christos Diamantopoulos, Greek Minister to Russia, who was asked to leave his post when Russia withdrew diplomatic recognition of Greece as a gesture to her then friend Adolf Hitler. His departure was finally arranged after Hitler invaded the U.S.S.R...
This week, stopping at his first island, Japan, Mr. Diamantopoulos wondered what next, for his Odyssey made even less sense than the original. He was 5,000 miles farther from home than when he started, and there now seemed no reason why he, a fellow victim of the Nazis, should have started...