Word: odyssey
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...which Walter Gropius is chairman, Breuer is, like Gropius, a creator of the international school of architecture. And like most internationalists, he is restless, widely traveled, had roamed over Europe, settled in England, when he packed up to follow Gropius to Harvard last year. Breuer's architectural Odyssey began when he graduated from the gymnasium at Pecs, Hungary, in 1920. Then 18, the son of a middle-class doctor, he streaked for Vienna, heard about the newly established Bauhaus, moved to Germany and then Paris, where his furniture designs had given him a reputation, was called back to Germany...
...into Puerto Vallarta, 2,000 miles from Santa Cruz, on the west coast of Mexico. News travels slowly from Puerto Vallarta, an isolated fishing village hemmed in by coast ranges, but last week the captain of a tuna boat radioed a brief account of the Tira's odyssey. Although the Tira had an auxiliary Diesel motor, the boys had journeyed entirely under sail. After many days at sea they put in at Magdalena Bay, near the tip of Lower California, but the Mexican coast guard sent them on their way. Days later they missed their next landfall, Cape...
...instructors, although generally commended for the interest of his classes was felt to be a little too easy-going on fundamental grammatical mistakes, causing trouble in more advanced courses. Greek A, the course in Homer, devotes the first half year to the Iliad and the second to the Odyssey. Many of the concentrators take the first half of this course and then go on to the second half of Greek B, Athenian Drama, and consider this a good step...
...Conqueror of the Seas Author Zweig admits that Magellan was a secretive, unpersonable dictator. But Magellan's voyage he calls "the most glorious Odyssey in the history of mankind." Magellan he defends as a sincere Christian whose ruthlessness was only an unavoidable means toward a great end. His generally known facts take in less detail than most biographers'. As in Author Zweig's other defenses of historical figures he considers maligned (Marie Antoinette, Mary, Queen oj Scotland and the Isles), his method is that of the biographical essay; his persuasiveness is that of the eloquent defense attorney...
...LONG WAY HOME-Sylvia Chatfield Bates - Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Lengthy odyssey of a beautiful upState New York old maid, whose luck, thanks to a pioneer inheritance of pagan stamina, turns into an old maid's dream when...