Word: reawakenings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...pert quarterly called Arion, the field cries out for even zestier treatment. Arion has set out to banish the philological quibbling and fusty Victorian translations that have stupefied students for generations. Applying the verbal and visual techniques of Eliot, Pound, Joyce, Henry James and the movies, it aims to reawaken pleasure in the wit and wisdom that once served as the main dish of education. Arion clearly reflects the exuberant yet scrupulous hand of Co-Editor William Arrowsmith, 38, translator in 1959 of the lusty Satyricon of Petronius. To many Arion readers, Arrowsmith's version of Aristophanes' rollicking...
...reborn. on the military plane, this means doing away with "that headquarters ("bald, pot-bellied, fat-assed men, incapable of marching half a dozen miles without melting away in their own dishwater-like sweat, with like Franco and the fawning manners of Spanish Jesuits"), the broader effect is to reawaken appreciation of the very values the Communists were trying to destroy...